Who wins? Who won?
I read this morning about the passage of the rescue plan that was passed by the Congress. The NY Times concluded that the passage would have been impossible without the support some of those mentioned in Wake's previous post. Yet only 3 Republican senators voted for the package.
Mitch McConnell is still sounding the call that the GOP was shut out of the process and thus unable to really get in on negotiations over areas of compromise. I hope that Sen. McConnell will soon be able to let us know exactly which of his proposals wasn't examined. I would expect to hear which portion of the package his party feels a mistake and what their alternative measure would be. I'd love to hear him express which portion of the GOP package he would be willing to let go of in exchange for what Democratic initiative.
But I doubt we will hear much beyond the usual name-calling and fault-finding that both sides have chosen to employ in their battle.
The time is now for President Obama to find some measure of quality in a GOP proposal and use his position to get it through Congress, thereby leading the charge to bipartisanship he trumpets.
Mitch McConnell is still sounding the call that the GOP was shut out of the process and thus unable to really get in on negotiations over areas of compromise. I hope that Sen. McConnell will soon be able to let us know exactly which of his proposals wasn't examined. I would expect to hear which portion of the package his party feels a mistake and what their alternative measure would be. I'd love to hear him express which portion of the GOP package he would be willing to let go of in exchange for what Democratic initiative.
But I doubt we will hear much beyond the usual name-calling and fault-finding that both sides have chosen to employ in their battle.
The time is now for President Obama to find some measure of quality in a GOP proposal and use his position to get it through Congress, thereby leading the charge to bipartisanship he trumpets.
posted by Kurt at 11:13 AM
2 Comments:
No winners. And sadly, from a northeastern perspective, it looks like most of the GOP is following a scorched earth policy as the minority party. And it sounds like voters in the heartland are at the least accepting it, and possibly even supporting such activity. The election did not give a mandate for old school democratic special interest spending. It was a rejection of national policies predicated upon special interests. The mandate was action for the common good. The leadership in both parties still doesn't get it.
how then, as concerned citizens, do you see it possible for us to attempt to let them know what it is we are thinking?
there was this guy once, pretty sleazy character actually, who used the term Silent Majority. Could he have been correct about that? I need to go review the context for it, but it seems to me an apt description of current American adults. Wasn't Barrack supposed to energize/mobilize us?
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