I do NOT want you to FORGET... how the COUNTRY became GRIDLOCKED!!! as you get ready to go to the POLLS!! The Conspiracy to Commit Legislative Constipation by James Wolcott 11:08 AM, NOVEMBER 2 2014 In a scene reminiiscent of the summit meeting of mob bosses in The Godfather, Republican House leaders were summoned by evil marshmallow and message-crafter Frank Luntz to hash out a strategy to cope with the defeat of their party in 2008 and the election of the newly inaugurated President Obama, according to Robert Drapers just published book Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives. From a report on Drapers revelation by Ewen MacAskill in the Guardian UK (the bolding is mine): During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to REPEATEDLY Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected. In his book, Draper opens with the heady atmosphere in Washington on the days running up to the inauguration and the day itself, which attracted 1.8 million to the mall to witness Obama being sworn in as Americas first black president. Those numbers contributed to a growing sense of unease among Republicans as much the defeat in the White House race the previous November. The 15 Republicans were in a sombre mood as they gathered at the Caucus Room in Washington, an upscale restaurant where a New York strip steak costs $51. Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations. The dinner table was set in a square at Luntzs request so everyone could see one another and talk freely. The session lasted four hours and by the end the sombre mood had lifted: they had conceived a plan. They would take back the House in November 2010, which they did, and use it as a spear to mortally wound Obama in 2011 and take back the Senate and White House in 2012, Draper writes. If you act like youre the minority, youre going to stay in the minority, said Keven McCarthy, quoted by Draper. Weve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign. The Republicans have done that, bringing Washington to a near standstill several times during Obamas first term over debt and other issues. Their locked-shut buttocks will unclench of course should Mitt Romney be elected, at which point theyll be passing legislation like street hawkers handing out strip-club flyers. Every bill will be named after Reagan or some other sentimental favorite. I still hear Frank Luntz IDd on cable news as a pollster, as if all he does is gather and interpret data, so lets stop with that wormy pretense, and could we get a moratorium on the both sides do it refrain from cognitive impaired columnists, talk show hosts, pundits, and editorial writers? Oh, who am I kidding? Broderism lives on in the Beltway and beyond, even if David Broder himself is no longer among us. ********************************* THE QUESTION TO ASK YOURSELF.... is this the WAY we want to GOVERN... if we LOSE.... then we cause the NATION to go in a DOWN SPIRAL at the cost of the INNOCENT... because that is EXACTLY what HAPPENED!!!
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:19:33 +0000
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