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We've all grown used to a Congress locked in bitter warfare between two parties, producing gridlock on federal spending and other pressing issues. But the Congress that left Washington last week hit a new high in another category: gridlock among Republicans.
Take last week's unremarkable proposal by President Obama for a deal to combine corporate tax cuts (an idea Republicans love) with an increase in spending on roads and other public works (an idea only some Republicans love).
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has emerged as Obama's chief partner in trying to negotiate bipartisan deals, praised the idea as "a good start." Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate Republican leader, denounced it as a trick to boost government spending. Meanwhile, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leader of the up-and-coming tea party faction, said Republicans should stop talking about any deals and threaten to shut down the federal government instead.
Sorry everyone in the GOP doesn't toe the party line and vote lockstep like the democrats do. I'm sure that individual thought stuff is confusing for you.
Sorry everyone in the GOP doesn't toe the party line and vote lockstep like the democrats do. I'm sure that individual thought stuff is confusing for you.
Yes, if there is any group that is more emblematic of "individual thought," it would have to be the members of the House from the Republic Party. I mean, you want to talk about a group of human beings who are always engaged in "individual thought," regardless who it might impress, it would be our House Republicans. They're just an impressive lot, all ways around.
It's not as easy as talking to a flock of Obama cultist so far removed from reasonable perception to do anything other than vote for more collectively subsidized "stuff," whether it's food stamps, health insurance, or contraception and abortions.
The impulse to vote Democratic is more a conditioned Pavlovian response rather than a result of thoughtful exploration of thought. The conditioned Democratic stimulus (promises of government entitlements) is coupled with an unconditioned stimulus (free food via food stamps, for example), and in time, either stimulus will, like clockwork, produce the response of a vote for the name that appears on the Democratic ticket.
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