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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's time to show the Republican obstructionists who won the election.
Politics isn't a child's game. It's a bloodsport. People's lives are at stake. To save people's lives, we have to win. The game is played at many levels, from grass-roots activism to local school board politics to Capitol Hill. All of them matter. Over the next couple of months, one battle will take center stagethe battle over the budget. A prominent Democrat once stated: "the budget is a profoundly moral document." That statement referred to the last truly titanic budget battle, the government shutdown of the mid-1990s, one in which a Democratic president stood firm, and a chastened Republican majority backed down. This time, the principal combatants will be President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner. There is only one acceptable outcome. President Obama must utterly defeat Speaker Boehner, and in the process he must break the House Republican caucus.
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And the president really does have no choice. The party that loses an election cannot be allowed to set the country's agenda, to block the implementation of laws previously passed, and to put its budget blueprint into law. If it can, then elections mean nothing.
Nothing.
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President Obama must tell Speaker Boehner that he will not get he wants. Period. Obama won the election, and the American people are with him. If Boehner wants to shut down the government, then he must shut down the government. I believe that in such a scenario, given the polling and the president's history of being reasonable and willing to compromise, the American people will put the blame squarely on Boehner and the House Republicans.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/28/1226264/--Endgame-The-time-has-come-to-break-House-Republicans#comments
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It's time to show the Republican obstructionists who won the election. (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2013
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railsback
(1,881 posts)1. The Left needs to wake up
These are NOT normal people we're dealing with here.
msongs
(67,459 posts)2. the "left" is not the problem, it's the self proclaimed "moderate republican" democrats need to wake
up.
gulliver
(13,197 posts)3. It's a shame the GOP has a helpless nebbish as Speaker.
But that's probably what they want.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)4. If Obama keeps caving to GOPers, are they really that bad?
The voters gave the Democrats majorities in 2006 and 2008, but they've been caving to the minority GOPers ever since.
If the Democrats are leading on this, maybe the GOPers aren't that bad after all
Maybe we should follow their lead and embrace compromise for the good of the country?