{"id":7139,"date":"2014-11-10T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=7139"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T17:30:12","slug":"republicans-wont-cooperate-they-prefer-to-dominate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/republicans-wont-cooperate-they-prefer-to-dominate\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans won’t cooperate, they prefer to dominate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t govern on fantasies – The Washington Post<\/a> By E.J. Dionne Jr.<\/a> Opinion writer November 9 at 7:42 PM<\/p>\n

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\u201cA prove-you-can-govern strategy will inevitably divide the party on the same tea-party-vs.-establishment lines that Republicans have just succeeded in overcoming,\u201d the National Review argued. Also: \u201cIf voters come to believe that a Republican Congress and a Democratic president are doing a fine job of governing together, why wouldn\u2019t they vote to continue the arrangement in 2016?\u201d <\/p>\n

They\u2019re saying, in other words, that spending two more years making Obama look bad should remain the GOP\u2019s central goal<\/strong>, lest Republicans make the whole country ready for Hillary Clinton. This is the prevailing view among conservatives. McConnell\u2019s main argument with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), and his followers is not about ends but means. McConnell is no less focused than Cruz on bringing down Obama and discrediting Democratic governance, but McConnell needs to be more subtle about it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Don\u2019t govern on fantasies – The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n

The Governing Trap | National Review Online<\/a> <\/p>\n

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If Republicans proclaim that they have to govern now that they run Congress, they maximize the incentive for the Democrats to filibuster everything they can \u2014 and for President Obama to veto the remainder. Then the Democrats will explain that the Republicans are too extreme to get anything done. \u2026<\/p>\n

Not much progress is possible until we have a better<\/em><\/strong> president. Getting one ought to be conservatism\u2019s main political goal over the next two years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Governing Trap | National Review Online<\/a><\/p>\n

Fuck you, Nation Review. Go to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t govern on fantasies – The Washington Post By E.J. Dionne Jr. Opinion writer November 9 at 7:42 PM \u201cA prove-you-can-govern strategy will inevitably divide the party on the same tea-party-vs.-establishment lines that Republicans have just succeeded in overcoming,\u201d the National Review argued. Also: \u201cIf voters come to believe that a Republican Congress and a … Continue reading Republicans won’t cooperate, they prefer to dominate<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7139\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}