Unfortunately the Repups appear to be ready to repeat the follies of 1995; timidity and symbolic gestures in place of the kind of bare nuckle confrontation with the rat party that is required. The new Speaker has pretty much indicated that todays vote on Obama Care is as far as he will go. No strategy to attach the same verbiage to EVERY major bill that goes forward. Also talk of defunding major fed programs has gone silent. OIn top of this the Tea Party movement (at least in SE Louisiana) has gone into pretty near comatose state since Nov. Leading one to conclude it was financed as a Repub vote getting vehicle and much of its leadership have their direction to shut up until 2012. I hope i am wrong but I have seen the Repubs punk out over and over again. They simply don’t have the mindset for what amounts to a war without the shooting that the Dems fully grasp as the nature of politics. One has to have a very strong set of philosophical values and a steel gut to avoid being coopted by the inside the Beltway moral vortex. How many of these folks really have that kind of iron will is problematicIf the class of 2010 becomes another bunch of slubs as in 1995 there will be real h-ll to pay with the voters who sent them to DC to fight the rats and not make nice. Readers please share your thoughts on this.
And then there is the story in “The Daily Caller”, this A.M. claiming the Rep are readying a long term plan to cut over TWO TRILLION from spending.
What say rather then being knee jerk defeatists as so many here are on such a regular basis, we give them more then 15 or so days to begin to accomplish what they have indicated they would.
And why should Boehner announce in advance all he will do and the methods he will use? All that does is allow the media to jump on it in an effort to turn opinion against it using their own interpertation of the facts (rather then the truth) before it is even made public.