Surrender Monkey Friday: Forced To be Bipartisan?
The Surrender Monkey is quite sure that Jonah Goldberg is feeling quite vindicated at this moment
Senator Judd Gregg awoke to the bad news on Thursday morning that a coalition of Democratic groups had planned to run television advertisements in his state to pressure him to support President Obama’s economic recovery plan.
Mr. Gregg, a third-term Republican from New Hampshire, is one of five Republican senators who are targets; all face re-election in 2010.
“Those groups don’t impress me,” he said in an interview. “I’m trying to participate constructively, help the new president where I can be helpful and be part of the loyal opposition where I disagree with him.”
Disagreement is not allowed in the New Order, Senator Gregg. Dissent is no longer patriotic, and will instead get you targeted by the new gestapo. Democrats cannot debate and defend their bailout recovery pork laden bill, as witnessed by what should be, to Nancy Pelosi, an embarrassing answer to a question about it.
The Democrats and Obama do not need the Republicans to pass the mortgage your great-grandchildren’s future bill, but, they want the appearance of bipartisanship, hence, these fascist tactics. Which could turn around an bite the Democrats, as they will own the “recovery” bill if and when it fails.
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Posted by William Teach on January 30, 2009 10:10 am
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Anyone read the Appropriations commitee saying they “only” need 400 billion so seriously where is the other 800 billion?
Here is what may happen if Gregg gets the job.
* Obama would be able to seek elusive agreements with Republicans on an economic stimulus package and on other matters with one of the Republican Party’s most respected voices and accomplished negotiators. In fact, Gregg, a former Senate Budget Committee chairman, helped both parties reach a deal last year on a Wall Street bailout.
* Articulate and widely respected, a Commerce Secretary Gregg could become a new and popular face for the administration, particularly on television talk shows.
* While Senate Republicans would be upset about seeing Gregg leave their ranks, they could take comfort that one of their own would be in the room to make the party’s case when Obama makes decisions.
* New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, John Lynch, may name a Democrat to replace Gregg, which could give the party 60 seats in the Senate, enough to clear Republican procedural hurdles. But Lynch may appoint a Republican to avoid a backlash about handing Democrats a stranglehold on the Senate.
* If the governor replaces Gregg with a Republican, expect the new senator to be a moderate who ends up frequently voting with Democrats.
* Senate Republicans had been buoyed by the fact that Democrats vacated four Senate seats in the wake of the November election — Obama to become president, Joe Biden to become vice president, Hillary Clinton to become secretary of state and Ken Salazar to become interior secretary. Republicans figure they can pick up at least some of those seats in the 2010 election. But they could also lose Gregg’s old seat.
* Obama promised a diverse Cabinet and Gregg would give him a third prominent Republican in it, joining Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, a former member of the House of Representatives.
“…Which could turn around an bite the Democrats, as they will own the ‘recovery’ bill if and when it fails.”
I think you can take the “if and” out of this sentence.
This whole “stimulus” package seems to have odd overtones.
First, it’s supposed to “stimulate“. Apparently so much so that it had to contain measures for contraceptives (now removed) and STDs.
Worse, is that now that zero Republican votes won’t work in the Senate, they have the group “Americans Coming Together” putting up ads in key states.
Is this a pattern ?