Posted on 11/24/2002 7:17:52 PM PST by Trueblackman
The Paralyzing Poison of Bi-Partisanship with the Congressional Democrats
In the wake of the most recent midterm election that put Democrats back in the minority in the Senate and lost them seats in the house, Congressional Democrats are once again calling for bi-partisanship between themselves Congressional Republicans and President Bush. Congressional Democrats will now claim that if President Bush wants to change the tone in Washington DC then he should work with them in a bi-partisan effort.
President Bush and Congressional Republicans should reject any talk of bi-partisanship from the Democrats. When Democrats controlled the Senate they bottled up President Bush’s Judicial Nominees, the energy bill and 70 other bills that where passed by the Republican Controlled House. The only bi-partisanship that Democrats believe in is that it either “their way or the highway” and now that they are back in the minority, Republicans need to hand them the map and car keys.
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle needs to be put on notice that the President and Congressional Republicans have not forgotten that for the 18 months that Democrats had the majority, he set the threshold at 60 votes for any bill, while his band of 42-45 Liberal Democrats secretly worked to derail any bill that President Bush or Congressional Republicans wanted pass.
President Bush and Congressional Republicans should be on the look out for the Trojan horses that Tom Daschle will send out now in the form of Moderate Democrat Senators such as Zell Miller and John Breaux. Tom Daschle will seek to make moderate Democrats the face of the party in the Senate, while doing everything in his power to undermine the President and Congressional Republicans.
President Bush needs to remember that it was some of these same Congressional Democrats that set up his father for defeat when they wanted him to work with them under the banner of bi-partisanship from 1989-1991. Congressional Democrats undermined former President Bush on everything from taxcuts to the economy, but now this President Bush unlike his father has a strong mandate from the American People to govern and set his agenda and should reject any calls of bi-partisanship from Congressional Democrats.
Congressional Republican Leaders in the House and Senate need to remember that this midterm election has granted them the power to move the President’s Agenda forward without roadblocks from Congressional Democrats and that Republicans need to clamp down and do just that. Expanded numbers in the House and Senate does not mean you cave into the minority party under the threats of a filibuster and skewed polls put together by the press and focus groups, but you do the job that the voters has asked you to do with a expanded majority.
The incoming 108th Congress under Republican Leadership has a duty to ensure that all Americans have the best that they can offer in permanent tax relief, strong national defense, a smaller and more flexibility federal government that is accountable to the American Taxpayer. Republicans need to also remember that they have a duty to ensure that America wins the “War on Terrorism.” The President and Congressional Republicans should reject any calls for the United State to be beholden to the United Nations in this war to destroy international terrorism and a clear message needs to be send to the United Nations that America is ready to stand alone when it come down to protection of America Lives and our interest.
The President and Congressional Republicans should work with those Congressional Democrats that are indeed interested in what is best for the American People in a bi-partisan way, but should be on the look out for the “snakeoil salesmen tactics” of those Congressional Democrats who are only interested in regain a majority than doing what is right for the American People as Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle refused to do for 18 months.
The President and Congressional Republicans when hearing the word “bi-partisanship” from Liberal Congressional Democrats should remember the old folktale of the Native American and the snake that asked him to carry him across the river that in the end still bit him or better yet remember what they did to President Bush 41.
The key part is to take the high road on reform.
TRUTH IN TAXES by requiring all head taxes be shown on the payroll stub of the employee including the employeer share of unemployement and all taxes. When the working guy realizes how much he pays in taxes, he'll care more about those taxes and relate better to others who complain about paying too much in taxes.
On every front we should play offense, propose more than we expect to get and then compromise by only getting half of what we asked for. We need to move the ball our direction.
President Bush and Congressional Republicans should reject any talk of bi-partisanship from the Democrats.
Not flatly, see the following...
When Democrats controlled the Senate they bottled up President Bush’s Judicial Nominees, the energy bill and 70 other bills that where passed by the Republican Controlled House.
Please consider that many of the bills passed by the 'Republican controlled House' did not have a majority of Democrats voting for them. The essence of bi-partisanship.
The only bi-partisanship that Democrats believe in is that it either “their way or the highway” and now that they are back in the minority, Republicans need to hand them the map and car keys.
Agreed. Which is why I believe a little wrenching is in order, but I just don't think that denying them any input is worthwhile.
Note: This is one post of very few that I've ever posted without reading the whole thread to make sure my thoughts haven't been already communicated. I hope my thoughts are unique, but not unique :o)
It's called catching more flies with honey than with vinegar. :)
As to Lott, I have ongoing doubts about him. He was going to postpone the Homeland Security Bill (which bill makes me itchy, I don't like it) until the new Congress, but George W. sank spur in his butt and took him over a five bar gate so to speak.
Orin Hatch may be legally qualified as a Supreme Court judge, but I think he is the intellectual brother of David Souter.
Regards,
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