| Reading this article was like overhearing no-nothing idiots pontificate about politics in a bar.
Ulp. So have I. |
Posted on 09/01/2009 12:46:44 PM PDT by La Lydia
Even avid Democrats like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich admit Republicans won the August argument on health care. (Picture from Wikimedia Commons.) Reich wrote this week that Democrats have ideas but Republicans have discipline, illustrating the point with his own call for a September march on Washington, which he now admits was just a thought balloon. But the loss has stiffened some liberal spines, like that of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who now calls for “siege warfare against deeply entrenched interests, defending a deeply dysfunctional political system.”
So while the far right won the health care argument last month, there are Democrats to their left who now want to go to war. Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus has even given up on bipartisan negotiations and is ready to push through with his own party...
The problem here for Republicans is their own past success. President Clinton failed to get a health bill through in 1993 and Democrats were hammered the next year, especially their more conservative members. It took them over a decade to win back the majorities they had then.
This may make threats to wreck the careers of those voting “aye” less potent, with conservative Democrats figuring that if they can’t win they might as well stand for something.
The bottom line. If Democrats can’t agree on a proposal given their substantial majorities in both Houses of Congress, they face a generation’s exile in the political wilderness, no matter how many crazy pills some Republicans take.
“... no matter how many crazy pills some Republicans take.”
Hey, don’t look at us, the democrats are the ones drinking
the kool-aid!
RE :”But the loss has stiffened some liberal spines, like that of New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who now calls for “siege warfare against deeply entrenched interests, defending a deeply dysfunctional political system.” “
This guy is brilliant! It ignores the democrat civil war going on.
Why is this on ZDnet? isn’t that a tech site?
They have a health care section.
It's what the RATs always do.
And what would that be, exactly, Dana?? They were voted in as conservative Democrats , so for what would they sit on their swords? So that Obambi can save face ? Good luck with that.
“...Democrats have ideas...”
Yeah. But they’re bad ideas.
“...but Republicans have discipline.”
I wish.
Rather, conservative Americans have core values and defined beliefs about the appropriate role of government in their lives.
Don’t try to make sense of it. it is DemThink. This guy thinks all those pols are going to throw themselves and their careers on Obama’s sword, or perhaps roll themselves under the Obamacare bus.
Yeah, the Democrats have ideas, alright. The problem is, they are all bad ones.
The deeply entrenched, deeply dysfunctional political system ain't the conservative Republicans. Look into a mirror once and a while Paulie!
More true than you know.
They want war. They're begging for it.
And, if they keep this up, war will be the result.
What a poorly thought-out article.
If they are "conservative" Democrats, why would they commit political suicide by "standing for something" (state-run socialized medicine) that they don't even believe in? (Assuming the typist understands the contemporary meaning of the word "conservative.")
Reading this article was like overhearing no-nothing idiots pontificate about politics in a bar.
If an actual thought ever passed through this guys brains, it would immediately combine with one of the innumerable anti-thoughts already there, and in a blinding flash of light, immolate everything within 200 yards of him.
Ummm...what would the Libs be bringing to this war? WORDS? They wouldn't touch a gun with a ten-foot pole. I think it could be a very SHORT war!
they want war but they forgot that they are for gun control
| Reading this article was like overhearing no-nothing idiots pontificate about politics in a bar.
Ulp. So have I. |
No, they will bring a fraction of the United States Army and United States Marine Corps.
They will fracture the commissioned officer corps over issues of oathtaking, loyalty, and obedience to duly constituted authority.
I do not envy any commissioned officer in the coming troubles. They will be making extremely difficult decisions under very trying circumstances.
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True, but you have to give Dana Blankenhorn credit for being persistent. If you had belonged to one of America's first dial-in online services ("The Source") around 1980, and you logged in with your 300-baud modem with the rubber "Mickey Mouse ears," you'd have seen "DANA" and "NICK DANGER" arguing politics. So he's been at this almost 30 years.