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Just Say 'Yes,' For the Love of Pete!
From Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's appearance today on Fox News:
REPORTER: Mr. Secretary, you know, it wasn't too long ago that you were in the House as a Republican. All of your colleagues last week voted against this. Would you have voted for it?LAHOOD: Well, look, I'm -- I am not in the House anymore. I didn't get elected to anything last November and I'm a part of the President Obama team.
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Team of Rivals, ya gotta love it!
February 9, 2009 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
A vast majority of the country does.
February 9, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really? I must have missed the poll where they asked people what they thought of the Republican cabinet members.
Yes, Obama is polling well. That isn't evidence that the entire country likes a specific thing that you like about what he's doing.
February 9, 2009 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
How many times does it take for President Obama to learn that the reward for treating repugs with respect is that they just enjoy fucking you over that much more.
Providing dissenting views in the privacy of the Cabinet Room is one thing: deliberately undermining the administration's signature legislation is quite another.
Not to mention that LaHood's own department would benefit hugely from the stimulus.
Fire him for incompetence!
February 9, 2009 3:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
This perpetual outrage is just getting annoying.
The vast majority of the country likes what Obama is doing. He's cementing his support in the center and laying the groundwork for a 2012 blowout. It's not all about the .001% of the Democratic Party who want nothing except revenge.
February 9, 2009 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kinda nitpicky, no?
"I'm part of the Obama team" works fine for me. Maybe he should swear a blood oath or something.
February 9, 2009 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think Schor is generally doing a good job, but apparently, MSM habits die hard.
February 9, 2009 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
This just in from Austin
Rick Perry – “Kay Bailey ThusAndSuch isn’t doing her job unless she votes for the bill”
February 9, 2009 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
One could argue that Obama's pursuit of bipartisanship or non-partisan ship had teh potential to (a) change the culture in Washington profoundly, or (b) expsoe the brain-dead, reactionary, soulless nature of the republican party like never before. The republican governors are going to be screaming bloody murder over this one because they are all going down the tubes.
So we have Perry saying this. Charlie Crist will appear with Obama in Fl. Hopefully, we'll see a very aggressive campaign to force the republican governors to turn on their idiotic colleagues in the Congress.
February 9, 2009 5:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Especially since the governors are seen by most rational observers as the GOP's only hope for the future, I suppose there's a possibility this might steer the party back onto a somewhat rational path. I just wish we didn't have to play chicken with the economy to do it...
February 9, 2009 5:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
"One could argue that Obama's pursuit of bipartisanship or non-partisan ship had teh potential to (a) change the culture in Washington profoundly, or (b) expsoe the brain-dead, reactionary, soulless nature of the republican party like never before."
Those two are not mutually exclusive. ;-)
February 9, 2009 5:51 PM | Reply | Permalink