“LISTENING AND OFFERING BETTER SOLUTIONS. As part of America Speaking Out, House Republicans have been meeting with constituents to hear their concerns and to engage them in the creation of a new governing agenda for the nation.”
They should be scattered through the halls of Congress with their hair on fire, talking to whoever they can and holding press conferences with whoever shows up. They should have canceled their plans for “recess” and held emergency sessions ... they are worthless to us.
We are going over the falls. They do enough polling to know what their constituents want and if they don’t have an agenda by now, we are all screwed.
“We are going over the falls. They do enough polling to know what their constituents want and if they don’t have an agenda by now, we are all screwed.”
Let me preface this by saying that I am no friend of the GOP. However, I think their failure to articulate an alternative plan is probably smart under the circumstances. The Democrats OWN this. Let them defend it.
By articulating a bold policy at this point, all the GOP does is open itself to attack. And the Democrats have an incredible attack apparatus at their disposal.
While I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see that the GOP is simply being incompetent, I have to admit that this looks more like a stonewalling strategy.
Or as Rush has often pointed out; when your opposition is saying or doing something dumb, often the best thing is to step back and let them.