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Mild Mannered Woman from Washington is the Democrats Deadliest Weapon: Huff Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-mild-mannered-woman-from-washington-is-the-democrats-deadliest-weapon_us_58a77653e4b037d17d27d494?i0uvy851s241b57b9&2/18/2017, 10:24am ET
By Michael McAuliff
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Patty Murray (D-Wash.) compared the Republicans in the House to the preschoolers she once taught. To deal with a bunch of fractious, obstreperous 4-year-olds, she said, you need a plan.
When Murray made her comparison, she was about to sit down with Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in what turned out to be the only significant successful bipartisan budget negotiation Congress has managed since the shutdown.
Four years later, the House is still roiled by a crowd of sharp-elbowed and feuding Republican lawmakers who cant agree even on how to do the one thing they all say they want ― repeal Obamacare. But now, theres a new alpha boy atop their playground monkey bars.
President Donald Trump outdid them all, belittling, bullying and insulting his way to the Oval Office.
Murray is familiar with the personality type.
There is a bully in every classroom, Murray said this week. And the best way to teach other children in your preschool class that its not OK is to make it not OK.
That is precisely what Murray and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are trying to do. Since there are only 48 senators on their side of the ledger, they lack the votes to beat back Trump and a raft of nominees that Democrats see as historically awful. What they can do is show the country and their Republican colleagues that its not OK. Murray is turning out to be Schumers deadliest weapon in that fight.
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Mild Mannered Woman from Washington is the Democrats Deadliest Weapon: Huff Post (Original Post)
Stuart G
Feb 2017
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WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)1. Go Patty Murray!
Native
(5,942 posts)2. So smooth....
Murray has made a habit of maintaining bipartisan relationships and working across the aisle, passing things like the rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act. A firm member of the Pantsuit Nation, and a politician who launched her Senate career as a mom in tennis shoes, she politely and privately wielded a stiletto against Puzder, offering trenchant insights into Puzders attitudes in private conversations with Republicans in hallways and on the Senate floor. One thing Puzder said in an interview was particularly disturbing to the handful of Republicans who were prepared to oppose him.
Someone asked him why he wanted to be secretary of labor, and he said that it would be the best job he could have with his clothes on, Murray said. I presented that to one Republican senator who said to me, quote, he doesnt get it, does he?
Someone asked him why he wanted to be secretary of labor, and he said that it would be the best job he could have with his clothes on, Murray said. I presented that to one Republican senator who said to me, quote, he doesnt get it, does he?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,985 posts)3. That's my Senator
Aristus
(66,358 posts)4. Proud of our Senator, "Fighting Patty" Murray!