Republicans will now taste their bitter harvest

The Washington Post ^ | November 11, 2014 | Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor & publisher, The Nation

[2ndDivisionVet]

In the early 3rd century B.C., after King Pyrrhus of Epirus again took brutal casualties in defeating the Romans, he told one person who offered congratulations, “If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined.” In his more sober moments, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), about to achieve his lifelong ambition of becoming Senate majority leader, may wonder whether he, too, has achieved a pyrrhic victory.

Republicans are still crowing about the sweeping victories in 2014 that give them control of both houses of Congress. They will set the agenda, deciding what gets considered, investigated and voted on. Their ideas will drive the debate.

But Republicans have no mandate because they offered no agenda. Republicans reaped the rewards of McConnell’s scorched-earth strategy, obstructing President Obama relentlessly, helping to create the failure that voters would pin on the party in power. But the collateral damage is that the “party of ‘no’ ” has no agreement on what is yes. Instead of using the years in the wilderness to develop new ideas and a clear vision, Republicans have used them only to sharpen their tongues, grow their claws and practice their backhands....

[2ndDivisionVet]

If you're not familiar with the authoress, Google her.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Katrina sounds like some sort of freaky sore loser. How are those grapes Katrina?

[UB355]

Nothing worse then a bitter washed up progressive

[gov_bean_ counter]

I guess she hadn’t heard about the 340+ pieces of legislation the House has sen over since the pubbies gained control that Dingy Harry refused to put to a vote.

[Billthedrill]

Hey Katrina - we won. Deal with it.

[Olog-hai]

“The Nation” told me too much about her already.

[2banana]

Republicans paid no penalty for obstructing every measure that might have given the recovery more juice, blocking even the infrastructure spending that has been a bipartisan response in every downturn. They paid no penalty for shutting down the government and forcing mindless austerity that cost jobs. They paid no penalty for their perfervid hysteria on foreign policy issues – screeching about phantom terrors of pregnant immigrants helping Islamic State terrorists and Ebola victims slip in the country to kill us here at home. They never needed to fill in the magic asterisks in Rep. Paul Ryan’s risible budgets, enabling him to deny the damage to Medicare, education, food stamps and the most vulnerable that his plans would require.

Bitter loser progressive ALERT!!!!!

[moovova]

Sounds like Katrina burped up a little of her own bile.

[Viennacon]

Well, the butthurt rats on the Washington Compost comment section are all in for his hilariously dumbass analysis. They really love this meme that the public will turn against conservatives when people are thrown off their health plans, not realizing that the SCOTUS are the ones who will be doing that, and thank God! hahahah

[ClearCase_guy]

But Republicans have no mandate because they offered no agenda.

Such tiresome old tripe from the Left:

"You have no agenda!"
"Oh, yeah? How about this? ... how about this? ... how about this? ... we have 340 pieces of legislation READY TO GO!!!"
"But you only criticize! You don't have any plans!!"

I've given up on these people. They are incoherent.

[LostInBayport]

Nothing says “snooty bitch” like “Katrina van den Heuvel”

[capydick]

This chick knows bitter

[blueunicorn6]

In the early 3rd century B.C., after King Pyrrhus stopped to relieve himself in the bushes, he said, “That one was for Katrina vacuum Hoover. It’s just like her writing.”

[henkster]

My first inclination was to make a really smarky demeaning undoubtedly sexist comment. On further review, nah. I just enjoy a private chuckle.

Enjoy the gall, Katrina. It’s all yours.

[InterceptPoint]

I'm sure you all recognize the author of the article.

[tomkat]

Delusional totalitarian cows like Katie impart an entirely new level of savory to schadenfreude.

[Fungi]

I can once remember when “journalists” were supposed to be objective, reporting the news without showing their personal inclinations or proclivities. Now they have no shame, reporting news has become a rooting section for whichever political party they defend. Now Katrina the hurricane is a sad, and pathetic excuse for a “journalist,” in fact, not a “journalist” at all, but a useful idiot for the commie, socialist left.

[Billthedrill]

Those are the eyes of a concentration camp guard. Remember the look.

[clearcarbon]

"Republicans will now taste their bitter harvest"

Much the same way as the Allies reacted to the Nazi ruins when they finally marched into the heart of Germany.

[Hostage]

She makes some points that are accurate but she doesn’t realize that the GOPe are hopeful democrat-lites that merely imitate her wretched democrat group-think.

Two drunks, both disgusting but one much more than the other, sitting on their butts on the street with the worse one lecturing the wannabe about public drunkeness. Katrina not only writes stupid, she is stupid.