Dems thwart GOP agenda (Newsday's RAH-RAH cheerleading of Dems obstruction tactics)

Newsday ^ | December 22, 2005 | GLENN THRUSH

[Mr_Moonlight]

WASHINGTON -- Senate Democrats, their party's last line of defense against GOP hegemony in Washington, are coming off their best week since handing over control of their chamber to Republicans three years ago.

Republicans outnumber Democrats in the upper house by a solid 55-to-45 margin, but seldom have those numbers seemed less meaningful than in the recent weeks, when Democrats have frustrated, derailed and detonated key elements of the GOP legislative agenda.

"The Democrats are starting to draw blood and cause some pain for the Republicans," said Jennifer Duffy, who monitors the Senate for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. "They are exerting their will."

Democrats achieved a political hat trick of sorts Wednesday. They obstructed ...

[Mr_Moonlight]

Newsday: "YAH, GO TEAM GO TEAM GO TEAM .... YEEEEAAAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH !"

[Mo1]

Dems thwart GOP agenda

At the expense of American lives

We Will Not Forget it .. see my tag line

[hometoroost]

I can hear them now. "Hooray, we raised oil prices, weakened security, and tried to increase the deficit!"

No wonder they always talk around what they really want to do and never really admit what they stand for.

[RoseofTexas]

I hate to say this, BUT NewsWEAK is partially right! With RINOS who needs enemies! AND, that guy Frist...HOLY COW, what a disappointment!

[RoseofTexas]

OOOPS, meant to say NewsPUKE, not NewsWEAK...hmmmmm, two peas in a pod though!

[Mr_Moonlight]

OOOPS, meant to say NewsPUKE, not NewsWEAK

Same difference ..... /grin

[fortheDeclaration]

Actually, the fact is that we need to have 60 GOP Senators to get everything we want.

Without that number, we have to accept the reality of not getting everything we want.

[NormsRevenge]

Dems thwart GOP agenda
At the expense of American lives

We Will Not Forget it .. see my tag line

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Very nice tagline. :-)
Merry Christmas and HaPPY Holidays!

[Recovering_Democrat]

Democrats have frustrated, derailed and detonated key elements of the GOP anti-terror, pro-energy independence legislative agenda.

[Mo1]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours, Norm

[Sicon]

"Actually, the fact is that we need to have 60 GOP Senators to get everything we want."

Yeah, too bad there are only about 48 REAL Republicans there now. You have to overcome not only the 60-vote fillibuster line, but the "Rino" factor on top of it (the McCains, etc.).

[Mr_Moonlight]

I love the line: "handing over control of their chamber to Republicans three years ago."

Sort of says it all, doesn't it ?

[FreeRep]

Senate Democrats, their party's line are like leftists and do not have a rational ideology but rather a ideology of a semi-hereditary group, asserting a neo-feudalistic license to rule common people and be exempt, like the medieval aristocracy, from responsibility to the country.

There is a reason you don't see ordinary people as leftists, and why leftists are concentrated in the democratic party congress and blogs and the MSM. It's the same reason why leftists hate the average middle class person, they want to rule over others like Hitler and Stalin. Senate Democrats and leftists and the MSM have every reason to make their positions hereditary as much as possible, and that's in direct conflict to the growing aspirations of common people. Leftists desire to become the new religion of the world and the new democratic party, which is all about maintaining power and position by acting in direct opposition to common person desires and wishes.

[Malesherbes]

I hope Ted Stevens who chairs the Appropriations Committee gets out his knife and slices a few of the Dims and RINO's who deprived us of the ANWR oil. He could start with his old some-time bosom-buddy Sheets Byrd.

[paul51]

Actually, the fact is that we need to have 60 GOP Senators to get everything we want.

Sure. We've seen what the GOP can do with a majority. Just think what they could do with 60.

[fortheDeclaration]

Yeah, too bad there are only about 48 REAL Republicans there now. You have to overcome not only the 60-vote fillibuster line, but the "Rino" factor on top of it (the McCains, etc.).

True.

The point is that the Democrats did not perform any great political feat, the system was set up to give the minority party the means to force the majority party to make compromises.

[fortheDeclaration]

Sure. We've seen what the GOP can do with a majority. Just think what they could do with 60.

Alot more then we can with 55!

[John Jorsett]

"Whatever it is, we're against it" isn't what I'd call a strategic vision for the future of the country. They're going to have to reveal what they're for at some point, and that's when they lose elections.

[John Jorsett]

Sure. We've seen what the GOP can do with a majority. Just think what they could do with 60.

Given the proclivities of some ostensible "Republicans," I think you'd need closer to 66.

[hgro]

I hate to say this, BUT NewsWEAK is partially right! With RINOS who needs enemies! AND, that guy Frist...HOLY COW, what a disappointment!

If he is no better at heart operations than he is as majority leader in the Senate, God help his patients/vicitims.