tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post2845944157506931678..comments2024-03-28T09:14:20.479-05:00Comments on driftglass: Today In Both Sides Do It: Ray LaHood driftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-12997810170719569222015-11-13T02:11:35.819-06:002015-11-13T02:11:35.819-06:00So, has he been garroted yet?
Smarts.So, has he been garroted yet?<br /><br />Smarts.Cirzehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07070125217972397204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-68498318867864343792015-11-12T20:07:32.856-06:002015-11-12T20:07:32.856-06:00So those hundreds of millions of dollars in less-s...So those hundreds of millions of dollars in less-stimulating tax cuts were all that evil beyotch Pelosi's idea? <br /><br />Funny, that's not how I remember it at all.<br /><br />LaHood may be right that the administration didn't spend much time trying to woo House Republicans, but there are some hard-to-ignore reasons for that. They only needed a simple majority in the House, not 60% like in the Senate. The House GOP caucus, while nowhere near as braindead and demented as it is now, was still a pretty retrograde bunch of dipshits, and Obama and Pelosi needed to keep enough Blue Dog bedwetters on board. Why bother trying to get some proto-teabagger's vote when they'd sooner light themselves on fire than vote with Obama?<br /><br />Their time was spent, by necessity, in the Senate, getting the Maine ladies to agree to break the GOP filibuster, only after they arbitrarily weakened the bill by larding it up with tax cuts and cutting infrastructure projects out.<br /><br />Lame, LaHood.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15368238520998130967noreply@blogger.com