EZ2, pity you are reduced to labeling all the authors you have been given of whining .. another just for you ..
By James Wolcott 8:18 PM, April 30 2014
In a scene reminiiscent of the summit meeting of mob bosses in The Godfather, Republican House leaders were summoned by evil marshmallow and message-crafter Frank Luntz to hash out a strategy to cope with the defeat of their party in 2008 and the election of the newly inaugurated President Obama, according to Robert Draper's just published book Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives .. http://www.amazon.com/Not-Ask-What-Good-Representatives/dp/1451642083/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335549166&sr=1-1 .
--- During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.
In his book, Draper opens with the heady atmosphere in Washington on the days running up to the inauguration and the day itself, which attracted 1.8 million to the mall to witness Obama being sworn in as America's first black president.
Those numbers contributed to a growing sense of unease among Republicans as much the defeat in the White House race the previous November. The 15 Republicans were in a sombre mood as they gathered at the Caucus Room in Washington, an upscale restaurant where a New York strip steak costs $51.
Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations.
The dinner table was set in a square at Luntz's request so everyone could see one another and talk freely. The session lasted four hours and by the end the sombre mood had lifted: they had conceived a plan. They would take back the House in November 2010, which they did, and use it as a spear to mortally wound Obama in 2011 and take back the Senate and White House in 2012, Draper writes.
"If you act like you're the minority, you're going to stay in the minority," said Keven McCarthy, quoted by Draper. "We've gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign."
The Republicans have done that, bringing Washington to a near standstill several times during Obama's first term over debt and other issues.
Their locked-shut buttocks will unclench of course should Mitt Romney be elected, at which point they'll be passing legislation like street hawkers handing out strip-club flyers. Every bill will be named after Reagan or some other sentimental favorite.
I still hear Frank Luntz ID'd on cable news as a "pollster," as if all he does is gather and interpret data, so let's stop with that wormy pretense, and could we get a moratorium on the "both sides do it" refrain from cognitive impaired columnists, talkshow hosts, pundits, and editorial writers? Oh, who am I kidding? Broderism lives on in the Beltway and beyond, even if David Broder himself is no longer among us.
.. and .. control of the Senate? .. ONE day you will finally get there again, and yeah, meanwhile your GOPhers will make it as hard on the majority of Americans as they are able to .. yes, one day your conservative anti-union, anti-upping the minimum wage, anti-cutting financial industry fraud. anti-cutting the number of medical bankruptcies anti-anti-tick tick ticks will get you there .. this year you do have an extra advantage as those seats in the Senate up for your obstructionist grab were last up in 2008, an extra strong Democrat year .. Nate Silver even sees you as perhaps slight favorites now for Senate control .. that's now .. we'll see how you work your whine if you get there .. you will probably need 6 ..
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