Best laugh line of the week
"[Passing health care reform] has its risks too. While a bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden would provide at least a short-term boost to a beleaguered president, Republicans have made clear that the legislative procedure Democrats are using to avoid another filibuster would so anger them that they would not cooperate on other major initiatives this year.
'If they jam through health care,' said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, then Democrats will have 'poisoned the well' on other issues. He was interviewed Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”
An immigration proposal he has been working on with Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat of New York, would likely fall victim to the worsened environment, he said."
Worsened environment? Seriously? Could anyone in congress today in either party really say with a straight face that they're trying hard to work in a bipartisan fashion, and this will threaten that spirit of cooperation? It can be fun to be the party of no -- it's way easier to create a 30-second attack ad than a 30-second defense of a huge complex piece of legislation. But once you go down that road and gain that advantage, it's a bit silly to pretend you haven't.
posted by QueensGuy @ 4:17 PM
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"The party of no." In a time where one party has gone mad with power, and wants to change all our lives against our will, we better have a party of no. Long may they reign.
Actually, when the President offered decidedly liberal but not insane bills, some Republicans have voted for them. Then he got bogged down on health care, and decided he'd rather do that than actually listen to anyone.
The funniest line in the article is this one: "a bill-signing ceremony in the Rose Garden would provide at least a short-term boost to a beleaguered president." It wouldn't even provide a short-term boost. His signature would be sealing the doom for his party, and perhaps his own presidency.
I hadn't meant "party of no" as criticism. It's a perfectly legitimate stance to take if you think the party in power is headed down a dangerous road. Just don't pause for a minute to threaten that you are going to start doing precisely what you have been doing if they outflank you on parliamentary tactics.
The people that hate the dems would hate them more if they passed health care. The people that loved the dems would largely support the effort but carpe and moan about its deficiencies- That only leaves about 85% of the population up in the air
85%? Get serious. Almost everyone has opinion on the health care bill, and most don't like it. Furthermore, those who don't like it feel a lot more strongly about it. At least the Dems have been warned.
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