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November 3, 2004
Reaching out and healing
I think I'm going to start a drinking game. Every time some middle of the road milque toast do gooder tries to tell me that I have to "get over it" and heal the bitter partisan divide. I think I'm going to slug the next sycophantic right winger who lectures me about divisive politics. I've had it up to here with listening to this crap.
House GOP says the way is paved for Bush agenda
Pence: ‘Dems lost their leader. That speaks spades.’
“It’s an affirmation of the direction we’ve been going,” said Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (Va.), who predicted that the GOP agenda in the 109th Congress will look “pretty much like it did — tort reform and the usual.”Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) pledges to work with Democrats.
He added that the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) will make it tougher for the Senate to block House-passed bills. “Democrats lost their leader; that speaks spades,” he said.
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), new chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, said: “There’s a mandate for conservative leadership in the outcome of this election. The American people have spoken in deafening terms that they want
Republican leadership in the White House and Capitol Hill.”
Deafening. Indeed. The level of cognitive dissonance it takes to say it's going to be business as usual and to gloat over their trouncing of the Democrats while at the same time claiming to "reach out" is truly deafening.
Posted by Azael at November 3, 2004 5:24 PM
Comments
The GOP will succeed only if we let them.
P.S. "speaks spades?" What a maroon.
Posted by: Ara at November 4, 2004 7:12 AM
An aqua-maroon. It's going to get UGLY with a capital GW.
Posted by: Hal at November 4, 2004 7:51 AM
