{"id":9282,"date":"2006-12-08T11:05:50","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9282.html"},"modified":"2006-12-08T11:05:50","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T16:05:50","slug":"house-republicans-blame-their-incompetence-on-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/house-republicans-blame-their-incompetence-on-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans blame their incompetence on Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I’ve been harping on congressional Republicans wrapping up the 109th with a dud<\/a>, and then childishly pouring salt in the soil<\/a> to screw things up for Dems next year, but there was an entertaining twist today.<\/p>\n

House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) compared the GOP’s behavior on the Hill to the Bush administration’s management of the war. “The war in Iraq and the Republicans in Congress are in disarray,” Pelosi said. “They are going to leave a mess as they go out.”<\/p>\n

Given their rather humiliating record, Republicans probably should have just let this one go, but they couldn’t help themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“House Democrats have spent every waking moment of the past Congress obstructing any effort towards progress,” said Kevin Madden, spokesman for House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. “They have tried to blow up the tracks on immigration reform, tax relief, earmark reform, you name it.<\/p>\n

Madden added, “And now in the last few days of this Congress where they have a chance to help make progress, they decide instead to abdicate their responsibilities and play the blame game. Just goes to show they’re a party of zero ideas and zero action.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This may be the perfect ending for the last day of 12 years of Republican rule of Congress — a nonsensical, buck-passing response rationalizing failure.
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\nLook back over the last two years. What “progress” have Dems obstructed? Can anyone name one major piece of legislation that failed because of Democratic opposition?<\/p>\n

Kevin Madden, a former Tom DeLay acolyte who will soon join Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign, pointed to “immigration reform,” for example. I know it was three months ago, and perhaps House Republicans have trouble remember that far back, but Dems didn’t “obstruct” any changes in immigration policy; internal Republicans squabbling doomed any chance at reform. The Republican-led House disagreed with the Republican-led Senate, and neither of which were fond of the ideas coming from the Republican-led White House. Where’s the obstructionism?<\/p>\n

Madden also said Dems “blew up the tracks” on “tax relief.” Really? When? Was there a single tax-cut bill brought to the floor since 2001 that Dems successfully blocked?<\/p>\n

Madden even blamed Dems for standing in the way of “earmark reform.” In reality, Republicans never even considered<\/i> changing the way in which appropriations bills are created and passed. Dems supported<\/i> reform; Republicans didn’t.<\/p>\n

What we’re left with his perhaps the most miserable excuse of the year for the GOP’s inability to govern. They had everything they wanted — majorities of every branch of government, with powerless Dems left on the sidelines to watch — and they still<\/i> couldn’t govern. Asked for explanation, the House’s top Republican spin doctor says it’s the Dems fault … and then says Dems shouldn’t play the “blame game.”<\/p>\n

Moreover, let’s not forget that these same clowns have not only failed in their responsibilities, they’re intentionally gumming up the works<\/a> so Congress will have trouble next year. Asked for an explanation, the best the Republicans can come up with is “I know you are but what am I?”<\/p>\n

They’re truly pathetic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know I’ve been harping on congressional Republicans wrapping up the 109th with a dud, and then childishly pouring salt in the soil to screw things up for Dems next year, but there was an entertaining twist today. House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) compared the GOP’s behavior on the Hill to the Bush administration’s management […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}