Beware Reporters Who Say 2010 Voters Didn't Like GOP, Were Saying 'End the Gridlock'
One of the themes we're going to see going into the New Year is suggesting that the voters in 2010 weren't sending an anti-Big Government message -- they were sending an end-gridlock message. That sounds more than odd, considering the Democrats had little fear of gridlock with the size of their majorities in the last two years. But there was Gloria Borger on the Christmas Eve Washington Week on PBS:
But I think Republicans also got a message here, which was the American voters said, okay, we’re going to vote you in, but we don’t really love you. We just don’t like the other guys and the way they’ve run the Congress and we want you to get something done and end the gridlock. And so when Republican leaders returned to Capitol Hill – Mitch McConnell chief among them – and he may get some guff for it from his new incoming Republican conservative senators, he decided, okay, we’re going to cut some deals here. He didn’t want to cut the deal on START, but he did get what he wanted on tax cuts and he killed the big spending bill that he didn’t like.
Borger also insisted (and other reporters echoed) that Obama better stop sounding to the right of Dick Cheney on "gay marriage" if he wants to win in 2012:
GWEN IFILL, PBS: I heard some of that playing out yesterday – Wednesday in his answer on the question about gay marriage. Now that you’ve got Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, advocates are saying, what about gay marriage? He says, well, actually I’m wrestling about that. Does wrestling mean a personal wrestling match or is he listening now to see what else he can get through?
BORGER: I think it’s a personal wrestling match and if I were his political advisor, I’d say, no, don’t wrestle personally.
IFILL: He said this more than once.
BORGER: Yes, he has and I think it’s clear that he knows it’s playing out. It’s likely to wind up in the Supreme Court and he knows that his position on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell could be a contradiction of his position on gay marriage or some could interpret it that way. But I think this is a president who’s sort of found his groove, got his groove back right – is that he now – context is everything in politics...
PETER BAKER, New York Times: I would say two things on the gay marriage issue, which is really interesting. When he takes his position in favor of civil unions, not gay marriage, politics were different. Today, Barack Obama is to the right on gay marriage of Dick Cheney and Ted Olson, who won the Bush v. Gore case in 2000. The politics have moved –
MS. BORGER: And a young generation.
MR. BAKER: And a younger generation that he likes to motivate and needs to motivate in two years.
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435 districts. A third of the Senate.
Submitted by The Vet on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 9:42am.
She knows what was going through voters minds in every single race?
But I think Republicans also got a message here...
We got a message. You are not very bright and you shoot yourself in the foot with gridlock thing. That was just bizarre to anyone with a mind.
Either Borger deliberately
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 10:00am.
Either Borger deliberately offered a completely misleading and biased "analysis" or she is so isolated from the rest of the country she is just guessing about voter motivations. Either way, only on a liberal vacuum - like "Inside Washington" - could she make such a stupid "analysis" and have the rest of the panel agree and the viewershiip accept it as authorative. If she were on, say, Fox News, someone like Krauthammer or Hume would have shot her down immediately.
Gridlock? The ruling party
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 10:06am.
Gridlock? The ruling party rolled over their opposition more than they had in a long time these past two years. What an asinine comment.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Bring on the gridlock!
Submitted by JohnMcGrew on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 10:09am.
If only we had "gridlock" before ObamaCare, bailouts, financial "reform", porkulus, cap-n-tax, etc.
Remember, the Clinton Administration was going nowhere before "gridlock" saved what little there was to save of his legacy.
Gridlock is great. It means
Submitted by ricklail on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 11:21am.
Gridlock is great. It means not more stupid laws and they ain't spending the hell out of our money. For all I care they should pass a budget and then go home. We'd be alot better off.
The most important thing the
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 10:15am.
The most important thing the Republicans can do over the next two years is to drive home the point that all the hope this country put into the first black president of the United States of America has been nothing more than an exercise in utter futility.
It turns out a black man and his wife cannot rise above their own pregudices, racism and myopic views of just what it means to be a real AMERICAN.
Each and everything the Obamas have done since Barack was sworn in has been based only on a REPARATIONS mentality,tempered by the reality that he must do something, however insignificant, for the vast RIGHT WING ( WHITE ) conspirators they imagine in their heads.
The only thing Obama has done for white folks since taking office is the extension of unemployment benefits to 99 weeks. He has only done this, as opposed to ending his socialistic, systematic destruction of our economy ( which if stopped, would start a resurgence of jobs ) because he wants conservatives to feel the pain and humiliation his simple mind believes they ( white folks ) have hoisted upon his people for the past 200 years.
The only white people who have a snow balls chance in hell with this narcissistic, racist ( self denial ), simpleton of a man/child are the card carrying union members and their corrupt leaders. This is only for the purposes of a quid pro quo arrangement whereby he launders American tax payer funds through these organizations to further his America hating radical agenda.
You need look no further than his own well documented, except those that mysteriously disappeared from youtube, manifesto to know the truth behind the man/child.
The recent revelations of Republicans ( white folks ) get in the back seat and calling for the Hispanic community to join him in rising up against their common enemy, again Republicans ( white folks ) proves beyond a shadow of a doubt just what we are up against.
The days of giving this America ( as she's been for 230 years ) hating racist are long gone. We the People must take what's left of our country back, no matter what his co conspiritors in the lame street press say about us, before we become extinct.
Barack_Must_Go.....
I'm pretty sure I voted for
Submitted by Thoreau on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 11:00am.
I'm pretty sure I voted for gridlock. If the Federal Government did nothing for the next 20 years, it would save us Trillions.
Exactly
Submitted by JustAl on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 11:12am.
If we could give the federal government an enema what's left could easily be buried in a shoe box.
Man! I am going to have to
Submitted by bassndude on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 11:23am.
Man! I am going to have to start buying duct tape by the truck load.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Uh.. she should probably keep
Submitted by ant on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 12:27pm.
Uh.. she should probably keep her presumptions on the voters to herself. How were we opposed to gridlock after two years of a Dem President and Congress shoving foulness down our throats? Dope!
And what the heck does this mean anyway?," But I think this is a president who's sort of found his groove, got his groove back right- is that he now- context is everything in politics.." I can't decide if it's worse reading their statements or listening to them. BTW, I notice this use of the phrase "sort of" all the time with these people, Amanpour used it a number of times in one segment. Is this a journalistic term they learn in college?
So in order to end gridlock
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 12:37pm.
So in order to end gridlock the voters decided to replace people who agreed with the administration with people who want to fight it.
OH THAT MAKES SENSE!
But remember! The lefties are the intellectuals of the world! We're just ignorant knuckle-dragging boobs who are uninformed because we watch Fox News!
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Oh yes, we must promptly do away with gridlock...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 1:43pm.
...in order to pave the way for the Soros groomed and funded Kenyan boy commie from Hell to put the finishing touches on his statist coup.
After all, he's almost there, so why stop now?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
They Live...
Submitted by ZuccoZoid on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 4:44pm.
Check this new Breitbart video from a most enlightened liberal - the Constitution is 100 years old and can't be understood (we libs will interpret it for you);
Substitute liberals for aliens and you have THEY LIVE.
Obey.
They Live seems to be about
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Sat, 01/01/2011 - 2:18am.
They Live seems to be about the times we live in more than anything. SciFi usually does a really good job of illustrating the human condition and the world we live in.
What gridlock?
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 6:54pm.
What gridlock are they referring to? Didn't the Democrats claim that this has been the most productive two years that Congress has ever experienced? Hasn't the MSM been complimenting Obama for just how productive he's been over the last two years?
Well, if Obama and the democratically controlled Congress has been historically productive as they claim, then were the heck is the "gridlock" that they're complaining about?
Hay, liberals, you can't have it both ways. You can't complain about "gridlock" while claiming that you've been so productive that it's an historic event.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Sure CM, but what you fail to understand
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 7:24pm.
Is when the propaganda wing of Obama's regime speaks, making sense is not the objective.
You see, its constructive gridlock, on a record scale.
Kinda like an energy policy kills all energy initiatives
Or lifting a drilling moratorium, but not issuing licensing
Or providing HC for everyone, even though it guarantees there will be less of it, at a higher price
Or passing a Financial bill that ruins the financial institutions
Or small business bill that squashes small business
Like oppositville
Spin, spin, spin~
Submitted by GG_NB on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 9:01pm.
Yeah, sorry, Borger -- nice dizzying spin -- but you know better. The Nov. message was: "Don't touch our junk/don't tread on us/leave us alone."
"If not us, who? If not now, when?"
~Ronald Reagan