Quote of the Week, II

"The President's relations with the GOP will improve as he learned the hard way that he could not cede all this control to the Speaker."
--Republican Rep. Fred Upton on President Obama received no Republican support in the House of Representatives for his stimulus.

Yeah, right. Note that Obama reached out personally to Rep. Upton, and hoped to get his vote before the jackals in the GOP House leadership convinced him that partisanship was much more important than working together to fix the economy. And all was right with the universe!

How many individual Dem House Members did President Bush reach out to in comity when he was President and his party held a majority in Congress? Let's see: add the three, subtract the one, carry the five....er....um....oh, I got it: exactly ZERO!

The only lesson Obama should learn from this debacle, if he is smart, is that Republicans have zero interest in working with him on anything. With strong majorities for his party in Congress, and personal approval ratings which remains high, Obama needs to exercise his muscle, and push aside a regional GOP which only cares about arond 10 states.