"Today, thanks to the GOP, compromise has gone out the window in Washington. In the
first two years of the Obama administration, nearly every presidential
initiative met with vehement, rancorous and unanimous Republican opposition in
the House and the Senate, followed by efforts to delegitimize the results and
repeal the policies. The filibuster, once relegated to a handful of major
national issues in a given Congress, became a routine weapon of obstruction,
applied even to widely supported bills or presidential nominations. And
Republicans in the Senate have abused the confirmation process to block any and
every nominee to posts such as the head of the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau, solely to keep laws that were legitimately enacted from being
implemented."
In The Washington Post, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein describe the biggest threat facing American politics.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
"We Have No Choice but to Acknowledge that the Core of the Problem Lies with the Republican Party"
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