The GOP legislative tool kit
Sometimes I think DC Democrats are the
stupidest creatures on the planet.
“The fact is, when you look back at their threats to shut down the entire government — remember that? — unless they got tax breaks for the rich, followed by holding the full faith and credit of this government hostage to their desires to cut government spending — and now here we are a third time,” Boxer said of the Republicans.
“I hope the American people wake up. This is their modus operandi: Government by crisis that they make up. Government by hostage taking. Government by threat,” she said [...]
One reporter asked why Democrats didn’t swallow the cuts to small airports in their states to pass the short-term authorization and then return in September “to fight another day.”
But Reid retorted that Republicans would find other “hostages” to force Democrats to back down on the labor issue [...]
“In all due respect, the issue is not essential air service, it’s not even a labor issue, it’s the issue of hostage taking,” [Sen. Chuck Schumer] said.
“It’s as if someone puts a gun to your head and says, ‘Give me your money,’ and then you say, ‘Why won’t you give them your money?’ ” Schumer said. “You leave out the whole context that there’s a gun being held to your head and that is not fair and that is not right.”
Are they just figuring this out? What did they think would happen as they capitulated time and time again?
There's a reason you don't negotiate with terrorists. Yet here we go again ...