Democrats Take Advantage Of The GOP's Epic Month Of Dysfunction

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Democrats Take Advantage Of The GOP's Epic Month Of Dysfunction

WASHINGTON -- Maybe congressional Democrats should just send their GOP colleagues a thank-you note.

After a month during which Congress failed to make any progress on funding the government, an attempt to protect the Confederate flag killed an appropriations bill and hard-line Republicans in both the House (Rep. Mark Meadows) and Senate (Sen. Ted Cruz) openly challenged their leaders' integrity and ability, Democrats didn't have to work hard to portray themselves as the responsible ones as lawmakers headed into their summer break.

"If Republicans continue to follow the hard right -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz -- they're going to fall right off a political cliff," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a news conference Thursday after the Senate was forced to pass a stopgap measure to fund highways. "And sadly, that looks like where we're headed."

The public at large might not be aware of obscure facts like which side supports what spending ratio. But it's hard to miss the vocal conservatives like Cruz, who tied the Senate in knots for nearly two weeks during the highway bill debate while accusing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of being a liar -- all for the crime of allowing a vote to preserve a federal agency that helps U.S. firms export products. House Republicans seemed to agree with Cruz, with Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) calling the Senate's highway bill a "piece of shit."

The internal drama was not lost on Democrats. "The Republicans in the House do not agree with the Republicans in the Senate," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) told HuffPost. "So you have another, sort of once again, inside-the-party debate. And I said to a friend, with apologies to the elephants, 'When the elephants lock tusks, it's never dull.'"

Democrats can't outwardly show excitement at an ineffectual government, but the GOP's dysfunction does present an opportunity to offer themselves to the public as the better option.

"C'mon. They are probably as gleeful as you can imagine without breaking into dance," Muzzio said.

 

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Democrats Take Advantage Of The GOP's Epic Month Of Dysfunction

WASHINGTON -- Maybe congressional Democrats should just send their GOP colleagues a thank-you note.

After a month during which Congress failed to make any progress on funding the government, an attempt to protect the Confederate flag killed an appropriations bill and hard-line Republicans in both the House (Rep. Mark Meadows) and Senate (Sen. Ted Cruz) openly challenged their leaders' integrity and ability, Democrats didn't have to work hard to portray themselves as the responsible ones as lawmakers headed into their summer break.

"If Republicans continue to follow the hard right -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz -- they're going to fall right off a political cliff," said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) in a news conference Thursday after the Senate was forced to pass a stopgap measure to fund highways. "And sadly, that looks like where we're headed."

The public at large might not be aware of obscure facts like which side supports what spending ratio. But it's hard to miss the vocal conservatives like Cruz, who tied the Senate in knots for nearly two weeks during the highway bill debate while accusing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) of being a liar -- all for the crime of allowing a vote to preserve a federal agency that helps U.S. firms export products. House Republicans seemed to agree with Cruz, with Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) calling the Senate's highway bill a "piece of shit."

The internal drama was not lost on Democrats. "The Republicans in the House do not agree with the Republicans in the Senate," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) told HuffPost. "So you have another, sort of once again, inside-the-party debate. And I said to a friend, with apologies to the elephants, 'When the elephants lock tusks, it's never dull.'"

Democrats can't outwardly show excitement at an ineffectual government, but the GOP's dysfunction does present an opportunity to offer themselves to the public as the better option.

"C'mon. They are probably as gleeful as you can imagine without breaking into dance," Muzzio said.

yes, I alwasy pay attention to what Chuck Schumer says, he is probably the most intelligent anaylyst of the republican party and what republicans think. ha, ha, ha, all he said was, "republicans are acting in such a way that democrats don't like them." Do you think we (the republicans) care if nothing gets passed??? The best way to piss off a conservative is to function. We like dysfunction, and the more it pisses off the democrats the funnier it is.

as far as a conservative is concerned, "Raise your goddamed debt ceiling and go home and stay out of our lives for a couple of years."

 

[loyek590]

tell me one thing, JUST ONE THING! Chuck Schumer ever came up with that doesn't involve spending more money or increasing regulation (which usually costs more money)????

and we are supposed to care what he thinks? Same goes for you and all the democrats. Everytime you open your mouth or just burp it costs more and more money.

And oh, msnbc and Rachael Maddow like to laugh..."The most unproductive congress in History" (when in fact the republican turncoats in the house passed many many bills and the democrat senate insured it was all dysfunctional.) which is what we conservatives like, so thank you Harry Reid for giving us the gridlock we thrive on.

 

[loyek590]

when you democrats can come up with any idea, any idea at all which doesn't involve spending more money just let me know. Otherwise, you are an old dying party which has run out of other peoples money to spend.