“Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people gave them” in electing Obama and a Democratic Congress in 2008 amid a recession, Schumer of New York said in a speech in Washington. “We took their mandate and put all our focus on the wrong problem — health care reform.”
“The plight of uninsured Americans and the hardships created by unfair insurance company practices certainly needed to be addressed,” the senator said. “But it wasn’t the change we were hired to make” in the 2008 election.
Conservatives should heed Schumer’s words before they make similar mistakes. The GOP was not hired to shut down the government or impeach Obama. The GOP should focus on the thing they were hired to do: improve the economy to create jobs and raise wages.
. . . but there is a real issue of whether the GOP can do anything without “shutting down the government” - an expression which belongs squarely in scare quotes because in the real world OBAMA has the final word on that. It’s not that “it takes two to make an argument,” it takes two to make an agreement.If Obama doesn’t choose to agree - viola!! There goes the GOP shutting down the government again! Just like back in the eighties when REAGAN “shut down the government” by not signing Democrat legislation.
In all cases the GOP is blamed by the grubercrats. And since journalists are all grubercrats . . .