Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor made a point of supporting President Obama’s quest for military strikes on Syria because they thought it would earn them some reciprocal goodwill. Then they got to watch Obama take the stage, just hours after a shooting rampage at the Washington Naval Yard, and launch slash-and-burn partisan attacks against them. Perhaps that influenced their decision to go all-in on ObamaCare repeal. Maybe they got tired of trying to shake hands with someone who keeps hitting them below the belt.After five years of it, you'd hope they would.
Friday, September 20, 2013
It would appear so
John Hayward notices something:
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After four years on the job the President hast learned how to govern yet. I dont think he will in the next four either.
After four years on the job the President hast learned how to govern yet. I dont think he will in the next four either.
I'm thinking President Blago knows how to govern in the short term, but he doesn't seem to realize the bridges he's burning by shoving things down peoples' throats this way.
Getting on board with a president's plan for war in order to curry political favors is an abominable moral calculus. If that's actually why they did it they deserve far worse treatment.
Hey - I agree with Brian!
No, they did it because they were (a) trying to honor the precedent that became nearly irreparably tattered during the Bush years, which is supporting the president in foreign policy decisions; and (b) to help him out of a jam of his own making. You can argue that it’s bad moral calculus for any number of reasons, and I might even agree with you, but it’s how things have been done in Washington for the last 150 years or so. Goodbye to all that, apparently.
And the problem with the president’s behavior is that the perception is now hardening in Washington that his word is no good, which is Gino’s point. You can’t govern if no one wants to work with you, unless you’re a dictator and can force the issue. Obama can’t do that because he is not a dictator and serves at the pleasure of the citizenry. If no one in Washington trusts him any more, it’s going to be a very long slog until 2016 and a lot of very bad things could happen in the meantime.
Actually, that's Bubba's point, too. Sorry, Bubba!
my point was so nice, my phone posted it twice!
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