NYT to GOP: Hurry up and change your agenda already
In Congress, Republicans are pushing an agenda that is almost identical to the one that their party lost with in November, with no regrets and few efforts to reframe it even rhetorically. The House will vote this week on the third iteration of Mr. Ryan’s budget, which would again try to turn Medicare into a subsidy for private insurance purchases, slash the top income tax rate and cut deeply into programs the president campaigned to protect…
Republicans in the House and Senate are standing firmly in the way of Mr. Obama’s second-term agenda, with a message that is striking when set against the results of an election just four months ago: Mr. President, you have to come to us.
Representative Lynn Jenkins of Kansas, a member of the House Republican leadership, emerged from a closed-door meeting with Mr. Obama last week and declared, “I’m encouraged to have heard from the president today, but more encouraged that perhaps this is an indication he is willing to change course.”
Which raises the question: What are elections for?
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So people who are in an opposition political party and retained control of one House of government, need to go along with a president who lost votes in his reelection?
Proof that the NYTimes wants a one party state.
rbj on March 18, 2013 at 1:35 PM
Yeah, hurry up and just give Obama what he wants!
supernova on March 18, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Selling newspapers?
Do I win something?
trigon on March 18, 2013 at 1:46 PM
But only when the President is a Democrat. The NYT sang a different tune when Bush was in the Oval Office and the Dems took Congress in 2006.
Bitter Clinger on March 18, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Lolz…this column kinda tickles me. Please do get back to us when you figure out what elections are for, dear dumbazz.
Xasprtr on March 18, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Hey, come on … the rock-solid leaders of the “NEW and IMPROVED” Republican Party, Rubio, McCain, Graham, et al, are liberalizing the agenda of the party as fast as they can.
Pork-Chop on March 18, 2013 at 1:52 PM
Yeah, because those Republicans didn’t win election, they just magically appeared in the Capitol like…. like… like…. ugh.
peski on March 18, 2013 at 1:58 PM
Translation of NYT to Conservatives: Come on you bible thumping, gun toting, traditional marriage advocating, football loving, Big Gulp sipping, anti abortion, anti amnesty, constitution loving Neanderthals…
Become democrats already! Embrace the secular, socialist, redistribution loving, devoid of morality progressive theology that has destroyed every other civilization that espoused this philosophy. And oh, by the way, if Republicans adopt the Democrats philosophy, they will win more elections.
The problem, of course, with this whole line of thinking is that policies which are destroying America have nothing to do with whether someone has an R or D beside their name. They have everything to do with philosophy and principles, or the lack thereof.
Also, the article asks “what are elections for?”, which totally ignores the House and Senate members who have been elected to represent their states and districts. We are a representative republic not a monarchy. The founders of this country fought a Revolution over that very point. Just saying.
fight like a girl on March 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM
Radio news break was pushing this narrative.
tom daschle concerned on March 18, 2013 at 2:04 PM
GOP to NYT: “Give us a break here, guys. We’re working on it as fast as we can.”
Doomberg on March 18, 2013 at 2:09 PM
Last I checked, the Republicans in the House and Senate were elected too.
SAZMD on March 18, 2013 at 2:10 PM
Remember when Republicans trounced the 2010 midterms and the NYT said Democrats need to change course?
Of course not. We were told all the racists came out in droves and that Democrats should double down on their initiatives because it would show those racists a thing or two.
ButterflyDragon on March 18, 2013 at 2:30 PM