Tuesday, March 02, 2010
‘I object!’
Taking the GOP’s ‘no’ campaign to its logical conclusion. This is going to register with Independents. It’s why Republicans have to get him off the stage. It wasn’t supposed to be this obvious. …
Bunning’s antics reminds me of the federal government shutdowns in the ‘90s, a silly tactical idea first hatched within Republican cocoons and later popped publicly, to disastrous political results. Americans didn’t like seeing basic services shut down. Americans now on unemployment insurance – millions of them – aren’t going to like this either. They form the core of the Scott Brown base, angry at Democrats for not doing enough for private-sector workers and soon to be angry at Republicans, who seem only slightly less nutty these days than Sen. Bunning, the new face of the Republican party. …
Taking the GOP’s ‘no’ campaign to its logical conclusion. This is going to register with Independents. It’s why Republicans have to get him off the stage. It wasn’t supposed to be this obvious. …
Bunning’s antics reminds me of the federal government shutdowns in the ‘90s, a silly tactical idea first hatched within Republican cocoons and later popped publicly, to disastrous political results. Americans didn’t like seeing basic services shut down. Americans now on unemployment insurance – millions of them – aren’t going to like this either. They form the core of the Scott Brown base, angry at Democrats for not doing enough for private-sector workers and soon to be angry at Republicans, who seem only slightly less nutty these days than Sen. Bunning, the new face of the Republican party. …
