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The Victory of "No"
Politico has a great article on the Republican's scorched earth strategy of NO.
...as one senior Obama aide told me, the working assumption in the Obama White House was that the bill for Republican obstructionism would eventually come due, that even in a bitterly polarized nation, voters would ultimately punish the party that treated politics like a scene out of Patton. That assumption was wrong.
“I guess obstructionism works,” the aide said. “It sure worked for them.”
“I guess obstructionism works,” the aide said. “It sure worked for them.”
It is now our job to make sure that this bill comes due and it will come due. It may not come today, it may not come in 2018, but it is coming and with interest.
Link to the article:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/republican-party-obstructionism-victory-trump-214498