{"id":15680,"date":"2009-11-19T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15680"},"modified":"2009-11-19T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T12:51:31","slug":"dionne-moderates-are-bad-except-when-theyre-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15680","title":{"rendered":"Dionne: moderates are bad except when they’re good"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the good old days of the Bush Administration when moderate Republicans were praised by the media for holding the line against Bush extremism and a rubberstamp Congress? It seems like only yesterday, doesn’t it? Well, suddenly, Democrat moderates are blocking a rubberstamp Congress and Washington Post’s <\/a>EJ Dionne doesn’t like it one bit;<\/p>\n

Last year, the voters gave [President Obama] the largest popular-vote margin won by a presidential candidate in 20 years. They gave Democrats their largest Senate majority since 1976 and their largest House majority since 1992. <\/p>\n

Obama didn’t just offer bromides about hope and change. He made specific pledges. You’d think that the newly empowered Democrats would want to deliver quickly. <\/p>\n

But what do real Americans see? On health care, they read about this or that Democratic senator prepared to bring action to a screeching halt out of displeasure with some aspect of the proposal. They first hear that a bill will pass by Thanksgiving and then learn it might not get a final vote until after the new year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine that! Democrats who don’t want to rubberstamp Obama’s agenda. I’ve used the word “rubberstamp” three times because I listened to that term every-damn-day from some stupid media source in regards to the Republican Congress – oddly enough, I don’t hear it these days, so I thought I’d bring the usage back.<\/p>\n

But, anyway, remember how praiseworthy it was for Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins to stand against the Republican steamroller in those dark days of Darth Cheney and Tom The Hammer Delay? Well, it’s not so praiseworthy these days;<\/p>\n

The rules have changed. The extra-constitutional filibuster is being used by the minority, with extraordinary success, to make the majority look foolish, ineffectual and incompetent. By using Republican obstructionism as a vehicle for forcing through their own narrow agendas, supposedly moderate Democratic senators will only make themselves complicit in this humiliation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Um, EJ…the rules have stayed the same – it’s the parties that changed. I wonder if lisping EJ Dionne detects the irony in those last few lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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