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| 2017-01-04 |
| [No-Pasaran] Representative Maxine Waters of California has a curious explanation for why Democrats were so thoroughly humiliated in 2016 writes Benny Huang (in disbelief) --they were just too nice. "That has been a problem in my party, that when we’re in power we’re nice," said Waters. "We bend over backwards to work with people." Any hope that the Democrats would conduct a serious post-mortem was dispelled with these remarks. The Democrats lost this year and they’ve been losing with some degree of consistency since Barack Obama swept to power in 2008 but they’re still avoiding introspection. As usual, they’re finding ways to flatter themselves in defeat, convinced that it was their own virtue that did them in--plus Russia, racists, and fake news, of course. ...Compromise is something the modern Democrat party just does not do. They’re quite skilled at all sorts of subterfuge intended to look like compromise but the real thing eludes them. In some rare instances, when the votes simply aren’t there for their pet projects, they may be forced to give a little ground. But it wounds them deeply. They quickly turn to the judiciary or to Daddy Obama to achieve what they can’t achieve through the legislature. By hook or by crook, they get what they want. What ails the jackass party is what I call "parachute politics," named in honor of Maxine Waters’ fellow California Democrat, Nancy Pelosi. During the 2010 Obamacare debate Pelosi displayed an arrogance that I found shocking. "We’ll go through the gate," said Pelosi at a press conference. "If the gate’s closed, we’ll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in but we’re going to get health care reform passed for the America people." |
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