The Conspiracy to Commit Legislative Constipation - Vanity Fair

[cui bono]

Let us not forget. I don't know why more Dems didn't talk about the obstruction in their campaigns and take it to the people that we need control of both houses, if we still can with the redistricting. But we should keep talking about this especially now that the Republicans are all talking about how their entertainment talking heads lied to them. Maybe it will sink in before the next election.

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In a scene reminiiscent of the summit meeting of mob bosses in The Godfather, Republican House leaders were summoned by evil marshmallow and message-crafter Frank Luntz to hash out a strategy to cope with the defeat of their party in 2008 and the election of the newly inaugurated President Obama, according to Robert Draper's just published book Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.

From a report on Draper's revelation by Ewen MacAskill in the Guardian UK (the bolding is mine):
( http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama )

During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.

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Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2012/03/The-Conspiracy-to-Commit-Legislative-Constipation

[MissMarple]

1. January 20, 2009. April 26, 2012. November 12, 2012.

They were waiting for a reason.