red states rule
04-05-2009, 04:19 PM
Another day - another liberal lie exposed
In this Newsweek oped piece, Eleanor Clift shows the real side of liberal's view of bipartisanship
Liberals should be cheering the 'death' of conservatism. Libs should be dancing in the streets that we're apparently being tossed onto the dustbin of history. Libs should be throwing confetti and breaking out the bubbly that we're 'incapable of being serious partner in legislation', according to Eleanor
But what are they doing, they're sniffing, in a pet, that we won't just 'go along' and they'd be forced to use reconciliation to move health-care 'reform'.
Why? Shouldn't they just wait for GOP members to be unseated by their furious constituency? That's going to happen, right? I mean, if they're running ads about health care for 11 million children and we're running ads about parliamentary procedure, they're going to win, right?
Right?
CAPITOL LETTEREleanor CliftLooking For Reconciliation
Since senate Democrats will be able to push through health-care reform without them, Republicans should try participating in the legislation instead of just obstructing.
Apr 3, 2009
Democrats are determined to get health-care reform through Congress. If that means using a parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation, which allows the party in power to roll over the minority, Republicans will cry foul, but will anybody care about their hurt feelings? Nobody outside of Washington has any idea what reconciliation means in parliamentary terms, and not many Beltway insiders can fully explain it either, except to say it's a nifty way to get around the rules requiring a 60-vote supermajority on certain types of legislation, a system that allows 41 Republicans to block just about anything President Obama and the Democrats propose.
Republicans threaten to stall the Senate calendar with their own legislative high jinks if the Democrats pull out reconciliation. Democrats believe a record of accomplishment will trump the GOP's complaints about process when the two parties are put to the test in the midterm congressional elections. "If we're running ads in November 2010 about health care for 11 million children and the Republicans are running ads about Robert's Rules of Order, I think we're going to get some pickups," says Jon Vogel, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Vogel offered his assessment, along with his compatriots from the other congressional campaign committees, at a panel Wednesday assembled by the National Journal to assess the meaning of the special election in rural upstate New York to fill Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. With 25 votes separating Democrat Scott Murphy and Republican Jim Tedisco, and the victor uncertain, neither party could claim much in the way of bragging rights, although that didn't stop them from trying. Guy Harrison, executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, warned that Democrats could "steal" the seat just like Al Franken had almost stolen a seat in Minnesota. Republicans vow to take their legal appeal all the way to the Supreme Court if the next round of contested absentee ballots ordered counted by the state court favors Franken.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/192346
In this Newsweek oped piece, Eleanor Clift shows the real side of liberal's view of bipartisanship
Liberals should be cheering the 'death' of conservatism. Libs should be dancing in the streets that we're apparently being tossed onto the dustbin of history. Libs should be throwing confetti and breaking out the bubbly that we're 'incapable of being serious partner in legislation', according to Eleanor
But what are they doing, they're sniffing, in a pet, that we won't just 'go along' and they'd be forced to use reconciliation to move health-care 'reform'.
Why? Shouldn't they just wait for GOP members to be unseated by their furious constituency? That's going to happen, right? I mean, if they're running ads about health care for 11 million children and we're running ads about parliamentary procedure, they're going to win, right?
Right?
CAPITOL LETTEREleanor CliftLooking For Reconciliation
Since senate Democrats will be able to push through health-care reform without them, Republicans should try participating in the legislation instead of just obstructing.
Apr 3, 2009
Democrats are determined to get health-care reform through Congress. If that means using a parliamentary maneuver known as reconciliation, which allows the party in power to roll over the minority, Republicans will cry foul, but will anybody care about their hurt feelings? Nobody outside of Washington has any idea what reconciliation means in parliamentary terms, and not many Beltway insiders can fully explain it either, except to say it's a nifty way to get around the rules requiring a 60-vote supermajority on certain types of legislation, a system that allows 41 Republicans to block just about anything President Obama and the Democrats propose.
Republicans threaten to stall the Senate calendar with their own legislative high jinks if the Democrats pull out reconciliation. Democrats believe a record of accomplishment will trump the GOP's complaints about process when the two parties are put to the test in the midterm congressional elections. "If we're running ads in November 2010 about health care for 11 million children and the Republicans are running ads about Robert's Rules of Order, I think we're going to get some pickups," says Jon Vogel, executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Vogel offered his assessment, along with his compatriots from the other congressional campaign committees, at a panel Wednesday assembled by the National Journal to assess the meaning of the special election in rural upstate New York to fill Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. With 25 votes separating Democrat Scott Murphy and Republican Jim Tedisco, and the victor uncertain, neither party could claim much in the way of bragging rights, although that didn't stop them from trying. Guy Harrison, executive director of the National Republican Congressional Committee, warned that Democrats could "steal" the seat just like Al Franken had almost stolen a seat in Minnesota. Republicans vow to take their legal appeal all the way to the Supreme Court if the next round of contested absentee ballots ordered counted by the state court favors Franken.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/192346