[Senate majority leader Harry] Reid said Wednesday morning that the Senate's shrunken Democratic majority will have to find a way to collaborate with GOP lawmakers, both in the Senate and in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.Let's be clear on this. "Collaborating with the GOP" is just another way of saying "surrendering to the GOP". Republicans have been very consistent that their idea of bipartisanship is not negotiating, it is no giving something to get something, no, not in the slightest. The Republican idea of "collaborating" is simply "you agree to do it my way."
Harry Reid must be one of the dimmer politicians in office if he cannot understand that. I have to wonder if he is suffering some sort of dain bramage from having been punched in the head too many times. The concept that the Senate is a collegial place where senators from both parties will work together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperate to pass mutually agreeable legislation is now as much a quaint relic of the past as are high-button shoes and steam locomotives, but good old Harry can't see that.
(It's a good thing that Harry Reid wasn't around to negotiate who occupied what territory at end of the Second World War; he'd have given the Soviets all of the territory to the east of the Seine River.)
think bama said more or less the same shit
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we're forever screwed
012 comes and they have it all
take it to the bank - it ain't coming back
Maybe we should remind them of what happens to fascist collaborators. In post WW2 France, the nicest thing was shaving them bald and running them out of town.
ReplyDeleteReid may be the true-life story of Chauncy Gardner.
ReplyDeleteWhat does it take to be a successful politician? You have to show up, you have to be able to put up an endless amount of BS, you have to have the endurance of a [something with a lot of endurance]. You have to be able to talk. I am pretty sure everything else is optional. Chauncey Gardner, I like that.
ReplyDeleteHarry wouldn't have left them at the Seine, he would have compromised at the Mississippi.
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ReplyDeleteThe failed policy of containment and compromise is DEAD the president was RUN OVER by it..
Now is the time for heated progressive rhetoric, and I am damn glad all the Blue Dogs got hosed
How does this differ from the current policy?
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing "dim" about Harry. He knows exactly what side of the bread . . . .
Thanks for not giving up just yet!
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the Senate's . . . Democratic majority will have to find a way to collaborate with GOP lawmakers
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Isn't that what they were doing all along?
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