Obama's Interview With Progressive Bloggers (FULL TRANSCRIPT)

If nothing else from the BushCheney administration was learned, it was how to overwhelm Congress's natural pace & tendencies to achieve your legislative goals. And it wasn't by working in a "bipartisan manner", giving everybody a say and all the time in the world to say it. Without strict timelines and the White House standing over the process with a taser, knocking heads together, asserting authority and insisting on party loyalty, the legislative process meanders into narcosis.



That was DickCheney's purpose in the BushAdministration. That was his contribution, what he'd learned from his time in Congress. It worked in concert with what the FederalistSociety brought to the RepublicanParty: The legal loopholes in the Constitution that the Executive branch could exploit. But that's another story for another day.



Obama & the DLC-Democrats learned the Bush-Cheney lesson. Obama's call for working in a bipartisan manner with Republicans on legislation was the last thing any responsible president who was serious about turning the nation around after the 8 year assault by Bush-Cheney would do. You certainly wouldn't do it with a tenuous hold on a 60-vote majority, with two of the 60 on de@th's door (Kennedy & Byrd).
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