Grotesque Opposition Party
Joe Sudbay at AmericaBlog catches the spirit of the GOP — celebrating because they have shown themselves to be obstructionist pigs…. uff!
Republicans profess to be unconcerned. House Republicans on Thursday headed off to a retreat at The Homestead, a Virginia resort, still celebrating their unanimous stand — despite Mr. Obama’s visit to the Capitol to seek their support — against a package that in their view has too much big-government spending and too few tax cuts. Their unsuccessful substitute was entirely of tax cuts.
House Republicans still elated from their unanimous vote against the Democratic stimulus package think they will be able to work with President Obama on future bills despite the partisan vote
Washington Post:The bill passed easily despite the opposition of all 177 Republican House members, but party leaders delighted in what they considered a victory after two straight electoral drubbings and much soul-searching about what the party stands for.
It’s all fun and games for the GOP.
We think some will rue the day when they patted themselves so heavily on the back. Obama will begin to push back sooner rather than later. He’s not a Chicagoan for nothing. But we need to keep pounding the media for giving full faith and credit to Republican howls of Democratic partisanship. They need to be shown for what they are, the Grotesque Opposition Party.
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January 31st, 2009 @ 10:45 am
Amplifying this comment:”But we need to keep pounding the media for giving full faith and credit to Republican howls of Democratic partisanship.”
David Sirota writes:
Open Left - Front PageFROM BELOW: (see the entire posting.)
(1.) http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11202
Empirically Irrelevant GOP Lawmakers Get Twice the Media Coverage As Dems With All the Power
Posted: 28 Jan 2009 10:06 PM CST
“That said, Obama’s fetishization of “bipartisanship” cannot explain away the media crime of cable news giving legislatively powerless people twice the coverage of people with all the legislative power. That’s just straight up journalistic malpractice.
* UPDATE: Paul makes a great point: If the ONLY thing the media cared about was creating conflict - and not ideology - then they would have given disproportionate coverage to Democrats when they were in the congressional minority under George W. Bush (ie. the analog to the situation Republicans find themselves in right now). But that didn’t happen, meaning that what’s going on here is definitely a mix of BOTH the media’s conservative bias and its desire for conflict.”