rssA Week to Test the GOP’s Commitment to Bipartisanship
Monday, February 08, 2010 at 10:57 am
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With unemployment tickling 10 percent (and likely to rise), Senate Democrats this week are hoping to push through a series of bills designed to encourage job creation. It’s as much a test of the Republicans’ commitment to bipartisanship as it is a gauge of the Democrats’ power to pass legislation in the wake of Scott Brown’s surprise Senate win in Massachusetts last month.
That is, with President Obama reaching across the aisle in ways not seen in modern history — and with Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) insisting on crafting a jobs bill that can win the support of some pretty conservative Republicans, including Charles Grassley (Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (Utah) — GOP leaders have little claim to their habitual complaint that the Democrats simply want to ram legislation through Congress without any Republican input. So if we see stalling this week on a jobs bill, you can bet that it has less to do with the actual policy (all sides agree that struggling states need the help) than it does with the fact that the Republicans’ strategy has, for more than a year, been to delay legislation at all costs.
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Comment posted February 9, 2010 @ 3:47 pm
Let me see, if I get this right. It has been the Republicans fault that NO Health Care Bill has gone through, that your take? Hmm, with a Majority in the House and Majority in the Senate, up to Brown's election, just what would you say the hold up on passing bills was? Would you say DEMOCRATS? Give me a break, we all know the Obama mneeting with Republicans is nothing short of a photo op so Obama can look like he is extending his “hand of bipartisanship”. Democrats meeting behind “closed doors, failing to send the bills for review for 72 hours, Most of the House and Senate not even reading the bills they vote for…And still YOU blame Republicans? I now fully understand what is meant by “Drive-by Media” and the fact that the title of your site has the word “Independent” in it is a joke.
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Comment posted February 14, 2010 @ 5:04 pm
Yes, it is the Republicans' fault as has been explained in exacting detail for months now. The House has no trouble passing bills, but it is the Senate, where procedures like the filibuster can prevent ANY action at all unless 60 votes can be gathered to get past it, that the problem lies.
Even bills which Republicans have supported they still will not vote for, because doing things for America means nothing to them & obstructing the President means everything. So yes, the Republicans are to blame. That you find that astounding tells me a great deal.
Comment posted February 14, 2010 @ 10:04 pm
Yes, it is the Republicans' fault as has been explained in exacting detail for months now. The House has no trouble passing bills, but it is the Senate, where procedures like the filibuster can prevent ANY action at all unless 60 votes can be gathered to get past it, that the problem lies.
Even bills which Republicans have supported they still will not vote for, because doing things for America means nothing to them & obstructing the President means everything. So yes, the Republicans are to blame. That you find that astounding tells me a great deal.
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