On Nov 5, 2008, at 4:53 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Brian Lawson wrote: >> And one of those changes IMHO is the need to get rid of the extreme >> partisanship taking place in our government recently. > > So let me get this straight. Republicans can run the country into > the ground for eight years straight, locking the Democrats out > entirely for most of the time, but now the Dems gotta play fair with > them now that they won? > > There's no upside to that. None. That's tails you win, heads I lose. > The Republicans have no incentive to play along. Their strategy, as > Francis has stated, is to count on Americans being pissed off and > the low approval rating of Congress will just naturally drive > eveyone back to the Republicans in two years. > > THats bull, the American people aren't stupid. They do hold Congress > in low regard, and when asked, they blame the Republicans to a very > large extent. > >> If Obama is going to be a successful president and accomplish the >> goals he has set for himself and his administration he is going to >> have to include Republicans in the effort in some manner. > > But the Republicans have run off all the rational party members. > > Who's left? The likes of Michelle "investigate 'em for Anti- > Americanism" Bachmann? People who were publicly calling the new > president a 'traitor' and a 'socialist' last week? > > Joe Liebermann, who just two days ago agreed with Glenn Beck that > the election of Obama and a 60-Senate seat majority would mean > "..that in many ways America will not survive?" > > <http://tinyurl.com/6xgtnp> > > Who would believe or trust them on any deal they said they'd make? > > That whole bipartisanship stuff is a two way street. > > If the R's want to be included, they've gotta step up with something > better than forcing cloture votes in the Senate and throwing temper > tantrums in the House. "Nancy said something mean about us so we had > to vote NO!" > > My opinion is: if they act like adults, treat them as such. If they > act like spoiled brats, treat them as such. > > The American voting public sure as hell will be able to figure out > who's the problem, like when Gingrich shut things down. Nobody > blamed Clinton for that, and if the Republicans play the obstruction > card and make this economic climate worse for American they'll get > their asses handed to them come 2010.
Somebody has to be the bigger person and take the first step. If one party waits for the other party to do that nothing changes and there is every reason to continue with the status quo. If making the first step to include the other party does not work then you can at least say "I tried" and the other side can not fault you for not including them. Remember that choosing to not talk to your opponents does not lead to solutions. It does not matter that the American public didn't blame Clinton what matters is that our government was deadlocked and nothing got done. The blame game doesn't lead to solutions. -- Brian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
