That bipartisan/post-partisan thing is really working out well for the president, isn’t it? Sheesh. The spirit of cooperation is as one-sided as my schoolgirl crushes on rock stars.
Is anyone surprised? The GOP began sending signals on Inauguration Day, when the bloviating agenda-setter Rush Limbaugh said he hopes President Obama fails. As if eight years of GWB, six of them with his party controlling Congress, left us better off than we were in 2000.
I’d have given up on the Republicans two weeks ago and told them where to go, two of a thousand reasons why I could never be president and why the State Department is not recruiting me for any post requiring diplomacy.
This demonstration of partisan obstruction would be a shame at any time, but with our nation and the world in the most dire economic straits since the Great Depression, it is unforgivable. The party of Lincoln seems determined to become the party of No. It’s past time for members of Congress — all of them — to grow up, stop taking their toys home when they lose a game and play nice.
And it’s way past time for the Republicans to stop letting themselves be led by those who look longingly to the past. Electing its first African-American chairman — on the sixth ballot and only after the leading opponent withdrew for having belonged to an all-white country club — does little to assuage real concerns that the party risks being marginalized as a refuge for mostly-old, mostly-Southern white people who are largely intolerant and increasingly irrelevant. A strong, healthy democracy demands more than that.
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Joel Pett
Lexington Herald-Leader Feb 12, 2009 |
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Growing up?
Asking a bit much from our public servants, don’t you think?
Great ‘toon. Thanks for sharing.
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