Posts tagged “bipartisanship”
The Republican Notion Of Bipartisanship
Ron Brownstein had a story in the National Journal over the weekend, pointing out exactly how much the Republican Party’s position on immigration has moved since the good old days of 2006, when lawmakers from both parties actually worked together constructively even on the thorniest of issues, and obstructionism manifested itself not in the Senate [...]
The “One Hand Clapping” Model Of Bipartisanship
What does one call this? Hypocrisy? A double standard? The political paradox of our times? The official Republican position on bipartisanship is evidently: — Democrats are required to display bipartisanship (and to be mercilessly excoriated at all times for failing to do so, even if they actually display it) — Republicans are forbidden to display [...]
Collins Still Optimistic About Healthcare Bipartisanship
Even at this stage of the healthcare debate — which for months now has been not a dialog but a series of interrupted monologues — Senator Susan Collins thinks that the GOP (not just one or two rogue GOP senators departing from Republican orthodoxy, but the GOP as a whole) can play a constructive role [...]
Sweethearts Still
You’ll be glad to know the little bilge-spewing tantrum Chuck Grassley threw on Wednesday isn’t going to come between him and President Obama. Questioned about the incident yesterday, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs allowed himself a mild dig at Grassley but made it very clear that Grassley’s comments didn’t jeopardize what the White House is still [...]
We Have World Enough And Time
Guess what? The President’s ardent desire for bipartisanship may have a very long half-life: President Barack Obama may rely only on Democrats to push health-care legislation through the U.S. Congress if Republican resistance doesn’t eventually give way, two of the president’s top advisers said. So even after repeatedly seeing how little interest Republicans have in [...]
Really Not Getting It
After Accepting Scores Of GOP Amendments, Senate HELP Committee Moves Health Care Legislation On Party Line Vote – TPMDC (7/15/09): The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has voted along party to move its health care reform legislation out of committee. The panel has been in mark-up for weeks now, and along the way, [...]
Obama Justice Department Strikes Again!
Here’s some news that made a splash in the blogs on Wednesday, but it still hasn’t managed to hit the mainstream media: the Obama Justice Department’s latest effort in their extremely successful ongoing campaign to out-Bush the Bushies. The Justice Department made a legal filing on Wednesday, urging the Supreme Court not to reconsider the [...]
The Grandmaster of Three Dimensional Chess
Bipartisanship Isn’t So Easy, Obama Discovers – New York Times (2/14/09): On the day before the big vote, President Obama took a freshman Republican member of Congress aboard Air Force One to visit Illinois. Before an audience in Representative Aaron Schock’s district, Mr. Obama praised him as “a very talented young man” and expressed “great [...]
You Don’t Say
Bipartisanship!: Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, citing “irresolvable conflicts” with President Obama’s handling of the economic stimulus and 2010 census. “We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy,” Gregg said in a statement released by his Senate office. [...]
Treason Most Foul
So have you committed treason yet today? Here’s Nachama Soloveichik, communications director for the right-wing PAC, Club For Growth, offering a carefully nuanced perspective on Alan Specter‘s support of the stimulus bill: “Grassroots Republicans are infuriated. They’re fed up. They’ve had it,” Soloveichik said, even going so far as to add that for many, “this [...]