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| Krauthammer: The Great Campaign of 2010-12 |
| 2010-10-29 |
| National Review ...press secretary Robert Gibbs’s dismay is reserved for Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and the “disappointing” negativity of his admission that “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” McConnell, you see, is supposed to say that he will try very hard to work with the president after the election. But it is blindingly clear that nothing of significance will be enacted. Over the next two years, Republicans will not be able to pass anything of importance to them — such as a repeal of Obamacare — because of the presidential veto. And the Democrats will be too politically weakened to advance, let alone complete, Obama’s broad transformational agenda. That would have to await victory in 2012....Over the next two years, the real action will be not in Congress but in the bowels of the federal bureaucracy. Democrats will advance their agenda on Obamacare, financial reform, and energy by means of administrative regulation, such as carbon-emissions limits imposed unilaterally by the Environmental Protection Agency. But major congressional legislation to complete Obama’s social-democratic agenda? Not a chance. That’s why McConnell has it right. The direction of the country will be determined in November 2012 when either Obama gets a mandate to finish building his “New Foundation,” or the Republicans elect one of their own to repeal it, or whatever (by then) remains repealable.... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #3 ThatÂ’s why McConnell has it right. There they go again. McConnell we can't DO ANYTHING. Just keep hauling the depts in front of Congress and stonewalling. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2010-10-29 22:31 |
| #2 Yup, get yourselves good Attorney Generals and that the House holds the purses for these internal unchecked acronymic bureacracies. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-10-29 21:45 |
| #1 IOW, IIUC "2012" = another way of saying that KIMMIE + MOUD + OSAMA, ...@Etal WILL DETERMINE US POLICIES, NOT the Fed + Voters + OWG America = OWG Amerika. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 19:20 |