at least not Obama’s way. We’re talking Washington of course.
If your party has the White House, 59 Senate seats and 255 House seats, though, for all intents and purposes it is Washington. The Obama Democrats have completed a period of surpassing legislative mastery.
They got a 1,073-page stimulus bill, a 2,409-page health-care bill and a 2,319-page financial-reform bill. That’s 5,801 pages in just three pieces of legislation, at a very conservative cumulative estimated cost of $1.9 trillion over 10 years. If this is what Obama’s broken Washington produces in three bills, what would a functioning one do?
For all their reputation as obstructionists, Republicans weren’t able to stop any of this. Unlike in the early Clinton years, Republicans aren’t benefiting from obstructionism so much as from failing to block a president’s deeply unpopular priorities. Washington worked for Obama — and now he’s paying the price. (emphasis added – Ed)
Rich concludes…
People think Washington is broken because it spends too much, it’s instituting massive changes without knowing how or if they’ll work, it’s creating new entitlements when we can’t afford the old ones and it’s inevitably going to ask for wide-ranging tax hikes to pay for the overhang of deficits. Obama used all the Washington muscle and marketing acumen he could muster to push the policies that have created these entirely rational — nay, common-sensical — concerns.
Ya think!?
Chris,
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