Finally the right analogy
Feb. 5th, 2009 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oselleJohn Cole again:
"I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years."
This reminds me that last week on the Today show, Matt Lauer questioned whether Obama had screwed up from the get-go by creating a stimulus package that "he knew would be unpalatable to the Republicans."
Can someone please fucking tell me why we should be wasting one second of precious time worrying about what is "palatable" to Republicans? Haven't we learned by now that anything that's to their taste is going to choke the rest of us?
"I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years."
This reminds me that last week on the Today show, Matt Lauer questioned whether Obama had screwed up from the get-go by creating a stimulus package that "he knew would be unpalatable to the Republicans."
Can someone please fucking tell me why we should be wasting one second of precious time worrying about what is "palatable" to Republicans? Haven't we learned by now that anything that's to their taste is going to choke the rest of us?
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