States’ Right
Republican governors are leading a frontal assault on President Obama’s agenda.
Ronald Brownstein
National Journal
Thursday, February 24, 2011
As President Obama confronts a resurgent Republican Party, he finds himself fighting a two-front war.
In Washington, Obama is already colliding with a conservative GOP House majority determined to slash spending and regulation. But the president also faces multiplying conflicts with Republican governors. The breadth and intensity of these confrontations dwarfs the level of tension between Bill Clinton and a previous generation of conservative GOP governors in the 1990s. Indeed, it’s difficult to think of another president who faced as much resistance on as many fronts from governors in the opposite party as Obama is encountering today.
This lengthening list of disputes says something about Obama’s agenda, and something about the new Republican governors, many of whom will arrive in Washington this weekend for the National Governors Association annual meeting. Mostly it speaks volumes about the continuing polarization of American politics.
Republican governors came out swinging against many of Obama’s initiatives at the opening bell. Moderates Charlie Crist in Florida and Arnold Schwarzenegger in California supported Obama’s 2009 economic-stimulus package, but almost all of their GOP colleagues lobbied congressional Republicans to oppose it. After the stimulus bill passed, several GOP governors (along with a few Democrats) rejected the increased unemployment aid it offered, arguing that the strings attached would force them to increase state spending.
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Ronald Brownstein
National Journal
Thursday, February 24, 2011
As President Obama confronts a resurgent Republican Party, he finds himself fighting a two-front war.
In Washington, Obama is already colliding with a conservative GOP House majority determined to slash spending and regulation. But the president also faces multiplying conflicts with Republican governors. The breadth and intensity of these confrontations dwarfs the level of tension between Bill Clinton and a previous generation of conservative GOP governors in the 1990s. Indeed, it’s difficult to think of another president who faced as much resistance on as many fronts from governors in the opposite party as Obama is encountering today.
This lengthening list of disputes says something about Obama’s agenda, and something about the new Republican governors, many of whom will arrive in Washington this weekend for the National Governors Association annual meeting. Mostly it speaks volumes about the continuing polarization of American politics.
Republican governors came out swinging against many of Obama’s initiatives at the opening bell. Moderates Charlie Crist in Florida and Arnold Schwarzenegger in California supported Obama’s 2009 economic-stimulus package, but almost all of their GOP colleagues lobbied congressional Republicans to oppose it. After the stimulus bill passed, several GOP governors (along with a few Democrats) rejected the increased unemployment aid it offered, arguing that the strings attached would force them to increase state spending.
(More here.)
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The Republican Governnors who are taking on Obama's agenda are just using the same in-your-face rhetoric that Obama used when bashing Republicans in 2009. The Republican Governors have said 'we won'.
And what's more, nearly 700 Democrats were fired last November across the country at all levels of government.
Two years ago, I was told ad nauseum that I 'was on the wrong side of history' in criticizing Obama and his agenda from many of my liberal friends. I just had to sit back and take it because, well, it was the will of the people.
So, now when those same liberal friends who crowed about me being on the wrong side of history and to just 'deal with the will of the people' are throwing a temper tantrum because they don't agree they are now on the wrong side of history and don't agree with the will of the people.
This is why liberals have so little credibility when lecturing people like me on 'democracy' and 'the will of the people'. they whine, bitch, complain, throw temper tantrums when they don't get their way. They have no problem thwarting the rights of the minority when they are in the majority, but when they are in the minority they behave as adolescent at Obama does.
The Obama Reich lasted two years. He blew it by lying to the American people about who he really was and the people were absolutely horrified by how he ruled like a king acting as if we are just his subjects rather than citizens.
Just like 'they' said, "Elections have consequences."
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