01-20-2010, 01:08 PM
Black wrote: The republicans left them absolutely no choice.
There's always a choice. The argument of the kindergartner and the demagogue has always been "Look what you MADE me do !" And now that the Democratic party apparatchiks are talking about the 'nuclear option' to get their healthcare program into law by going around having to need a Senate vote.... well, it's just more of the same.
Again, you cannot decry 'dirty politics' on the part of the party in power, and then use the SAME tactics when you are in power without being hypocritical. Did the Republicans do the same thing ? You betcha. They're all kids in the schoolyard.
But that's the nature of politics. Wagering on the short attention span and memory of the voters is usually a safe bet.