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Friday, March 01, 2013 12:05:09 PM
Why Republican Governors Hate the Republican Congress
Molly Ball
Feb 26 2013, 6:00 AM ET
Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (left) and Bob McDonnell of Virginia (Associated Press)
A bunch of Republican governors have been in Washington the past few days for the National Governors Association meeting, just in time to chew out their fellow Republicans in Congress over the upcoming sequestration cuts.
"I think there's a lack of leadership," Gary Herbert of Utah groused to Politico on Sunday. "They need to stop having press conferences and start meeting," echoed Virginia's Bob McDonnell. "I think the Hill ought to be saying, 'We're ready to sit down and work on a budget,'" said Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett.
The drumbeat of criticism continued Monday with a press conference by Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, South Carolina's Nikki Haley, and Wisconsin's Scott Walker -- all prominent conservatives with national profiles who made it clear they had little use for the congressional GOP's approach, which has mainly consisted of sitting on its collective hands, blaming the White House, and waiting for the cuts to take effect.
"We're not here speaking on behalf of Republicans on the Hill, we're speaking on behalf of Republican governors," Walker said pointedly. "The difference is, we're providing leadership."
Ouch. If this all sounds familiar, though, it may be because the split between the Hill GOP and their counterparts in the nation's governor's mansions has been going on for a while. The frustration is real and goes beyond routine D.C.-bashing to score political points. It's a split between the Republicans who are charged with governing and those who have dug in as a pure opposition party. Indeed, the party's future may hinge on which faction prevails -- the state executives, whose responsibility to govern has made them pragmatists, or the D.C. legislators, many of whom seem content to serve solely as an alternative and obstacle to the Democratic White House and Senate.
There's MORE..
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/why-republican-governors-hate-the-republican-congress/273493/
Molly Ball
Feb 26 2013, 6:00 AM ET
Governors Bobby Jindal of Louisiana (left) and Bob McDonnell of Virginia (Associated Press)
A bunch of Republican governors have been in Washington the past few days for the National Governors Association meeting, just in time to chew out their fellow Republicans in Congress over the upcoming sequestration cuts.
"I think there's a lack of leadership," Gary Herbert of Utah groused to Politico on Sunday. "They need to stop having press conferences and start meeting," echoed Virginia's Bob McDonnell. "I think the Hill ought to be saying, 'We're ready to sit down and work on a budget,'" said Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett.
The drumbeat of criticism continued Monday with a press conference by Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, South Carolina's Nikki Haley, and Wisconsin's Scott Walker -- all prominent conservatives with national profiles who made it clear they had little use for the congressional GOP's approach, which has mainly consisted of sitting on its collective hands, blaming the White House, and waiting for the cuts to take effect.
"We're not here speaking on behalf of Republicans on the Hill, we're speaking on behalf of Republican governors," Walker said pointedly. "The difference is, we're providing leadership."
Ouch. If this all sounds familiar, though, it may be because the split between the Hill GOP and their counterparts in the nation's governor's mansions has been going on for a while. The frustration is real and goes beyond routine D.C.-bashing to score political points. It's a split between the Republicans who are charged with governing and those who have dug in as a pure opposition party. Indeed, the party's future may hinge on which faction prevails -- the state executives, whose responsibility to govern has made them pragmatists, or the D.C. legislators, many of whom seem content to serve solely as an alternative and obstacle to the Democratic White House and Senate.
There's MORE..
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/why-republican-governors-hate-the-republican-congress/273493/
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