Comments on: GOP FEROCITY?

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

Ah, the wonderful days of 1992. You remember that, don't you? That was when a Democratic Party, drunk on the notion of "comity and the political center" refused to pass President Bush's NAFTA bill, only to pass it the very next year when Clinton was president. What softball politics that was.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

The more appropriate way to start the second paragraph of the second excerpt is:

"This is a shock to congressional Democrats, most of whom came to political maturity under the old arrangements in which the Democrats were the unchallenged majority, and the Republican Party was too weak to force compromise."

Mr. Dionne needs to go back and look at how the House was run under Tip O'Neil, Wright and even Foley.

By: KCat

KCat — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I can recall reading a Dionne article a couple of months ago that I thought made some sense, but now I can't remember what it was about.

Does anyone know how E.J. Dionne first managed to make contact with the alternate universe in which he appears to reside?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

I dunno, KCat. What's really bizarre is that he's, in addition to his newspaper gigs, a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

By: Rodney Dill

Rodney Dill — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000

What is even more ludicrous is that with a President, House, and Senate elected by the will of the people and voting more or less that same direction. (The Republicans seem more independent and less likely to follow their own party lines than the Democrats) The democrats are holding a strangle hold on law making through the threat of filibuster and no one, especially in the media, is confronting them with this.

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