In 2008 the American people elected, to paraphrase McConnells remarks from yesterday, united government. They elected Democrats to huge majorities in the House and the Senate, and gave Barack Obama an electoral college landslide. Furthermore, just over 57 percent of eligible voters actually turned out to vote, the highest level in four decades. Did Republicans in the House and Senate recognize the reality of the government they had in 2009, Senator McConnell? Or did they all, to a person, reject every compromise offered on healthcare reform and vote against it? And did they all, with only three exceptions (one of whom became a Democrat shortly thereafter), reject every compromise offered on the stimulus and vote against it? More broadly, did you, yourself, tell your fellow Republican senators even before the inauguration that they, in the words of one of them, cant let [Obama] succeed in anything. But now Republicans have done an about face. After midterm elections that saw the lowest voter turnout since 1942 at barely 36 percent, and with a Senate map fought almost completely in the relatively small number of states that voted for Mitt Romney, the GOP thinks thats the mandate that matters. Now, according to McConnell, is the time to listen to the American people. After 2008? Not so much
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 23:12:24 +0000
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