When does making nice end?
John Boehner says the spending bill designed to stimulate the economy is too much about spending.
Won't someone go after the Republican leadership? I know we're supposed to be "working together," but aren't we nearing the point where someone has to say, "the Republicans propose to solve the Bush economic problems with Bush economic policies?"
(As TPM points out, support for the Obama stimulus is very high, while Boehner/McConnell approval is very low.)
Shouldn't someone be getting a little nasty soon, at least as a shot across the bow?
Won't someone go after the Republican leadership? I know we're supposed to be "working together," but aren't we nearing the point where someone has to say, "the Republicans propose to solve the Bush economic problems with Bush economic policies?"
(As TPM points out, support for the Obama stimulus is very high, while Boehner/McConnell approval is very low.)
Shouldn't someone be getting a little nasty soon, at least as a shot across the bow?
posted by mikevotes at
7:45 AM
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Tell me about it.
At what point do the Dems (and Obama) start leading and stop bending.
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-epm, at 9:51 AM
I think we're still at the attempt a compromise phase, but there's no reason some junior members can't start trying out attack lines to make the point.
Leverage.
My hunch is the Republicans are going to let a few Senators go to let this pass, but stand in opposition as a political ploy.
To them, this is about identity.
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mikevotes, at 11:19 AM
While bitter partisanship is part of the problem with old-style politics, so is compromising to the point of irrelevancy. Where the resulting legislation is just crap, but the pols are slapping themselves on the back for working together.
At some point this new politics has to be about moving the country forward, about progress, and not simply about hugs and capitulation/compromise.
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-epm, at 12:22 PM
Fair point.
Really have to wait and see wait sort of bill finally comes out of the compromising.
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mikevotes, at 1:44 PM
Agreed.
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-epm, at 1:49 PM
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