Comments on: York: Democrats Fear GOP Oversight

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By: msmilack

msmilack — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 01:13:56 +0000

balconesfault

What confounds me is how the GOP can pretend to be so fiscally responsible when they said nothing at all during the big spending in the previous GOP administrations. The word double-standard comes to mind.
I’m hoping they do not take the House or Senate both because the country can’t prosper under their leadership and because losing might wake them up to the fact that they have defaulted on their responsibility to govern; not all of them, but the ones who vote in a bloc with a resounding NO. How can they honestly vote against the disclosure law (as they did today — NOT against the law but against even discussing the law)? One reason is that all the people who were appalled by the Supreme Court decision (and let it be known to the elected officials) have not connected the dots, do not understand that it’s the same issue and have not expressed their disapproval; it might be time for the Democrats to vote on the issue every day until they get the response they need. Otherwise, corporate ads, here we come. I suppose the spending by Whitman in California was our first taste of what is to come — minus an attribution of who is paying for the ad.

By: balconesfault

balconesfault — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:20:14 +0000

I’m up for the Republican Party providing the same level of oversight to the Obama Administration as they did to the Bush Administration.

No. Wait. Strike that. No administration – even one that I support the policy agenda of – should be given that much deference by Congress, ever.

I look forward to the first major hearings on why the Obama Administration began the practice of appointing “czars”. Seriously, were the Republicans to take the House or Senate, I could see that coming.

By: msmilack

msmilack — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:38:27 +0000

I’m pretty sure the only thing Democrats fear from Republicans is more NO votes in place of governing. The GOP is too weak and too feckless to inspire fear in anyone. Their behavior is simply shameful.

By: LFC

LFC — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:12:36 +0000

By “witch hunt,” Franken is referring to what Republicans call “oversight.”

Uh, Byron, you DO realize that Republicans have a bit of history that can’t remotely be called “oversight”, right? Or did you spend the late-1990s out of the country and away from the news?

By: drdredel

drdredel — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:26:23 +0000

republicans are anti-learning. So… dante… the answer to your question is…..

no.

By: dante

dante — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:05:27 +0000

So the question is, will the Republicans learn from their mistakes? Their actions in the 1990s drove UP the favorability numbers of Clinton, to the point that when the Democrats took over Congress in 2006 they *didn’t* start a slew of investigations (and there were plenty to have chosen from, the Iraq War, Cheney’s energy policy meetings, etc). The question is whether the Republicans have learned their lesson, or is Bachmann going to be in charge of Patriotism Hearings?