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babylonsister

(170,963 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:01 PM Dec 2011

Why House Republicans Won't Win

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2011/12/21/why_house_republicans_wont_win.html

Why House Republicans Won't Win


With the Wall Street Journal editorial page already calling on House Republicans to surrender in their fight over a payroll tax cut extension, First Read gives three reasons why the House GOP is unlikely to win this fight:

"Reason #1: House Republicans allowed the Senate to break for the Christmas holiday without explicit orders it would need to come back. In fact, Politico notes that the silence from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is deafening. Reason #2: The Senate passed its legislation by a bipartisan 89-10 vote, raising the question whether a conference committee could produce a deal that could get 60-plus Senate votes. Reason #3: The House GOP didn't allow an up-or-down vote on the Senate bill, suggesting that it could have passed if they did. Those three reasons will be hard for the House GOP to explain away if the tax cut expires after Dec. 31."
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rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
1. The problem is the public will never know these reasons. The corp-media is already
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:06 PM
Dec 2011

mimicking the republicon meme that the Democrats in the SEnate only wanted to extend the middle class take break for two months. The HOR Republicon plan was to extended it for a whole year.

Ship of Fools

(1,453 posts)
2. I think you're right on that, but MAYBE
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:29 PM
Dec 2011

House/Senate dems will get their collective shit together and pound it home
for the next 11 months (11 months!? good gawd--shoot me now). CorpMedia
can't ignore them forever, one would think.

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
3. They have avenues available to them to get themselves into the corp-media.
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:44 PM
Dec 2011

But they dont seem to use them.

emulatorloo

(43,982 posts)
5. The MOJO of the corp media is strong.
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:50 PM
Dec 2011

They take everything a Republican says at face value. Anything a Democrat says is met with steely eyed skepticism

emulatorloo

(43,982 posts)
10. Those Obama town hall tours are one example of trying to cut thru the media filter
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:58 PM
Dec 2011

and go direct to people. Notice how little media coverage there is of those.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
4. Yeah
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:49 PM
Dec 2011

But it is larded up with gobs of "poison pills" that no Democrat should be willing to accept, so it's DOA in the Senate. Another epic Tea Party GOP fail.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
12. They've actually done a good job blocking legislation loaded with these kind of "poison pills"
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 10:04 PM
Dec 2011

so far in this Congress. A lot of GOP measures have been DOA in the Senate. I don't expect anything like pee testing for unemployment benefits to survive here either. I don't even think that the House will be able to force the President's hand on the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
8. I think ths public will know.Turn on MSNBC, CNN, Olbermann, and Cenk - They're getting the truth out
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 07:57 PM
Dec 2011

and folks all over the internet are talking.

The only folks that will not know the truth about what is going on are the folks that watch only FoxNews and don't get any of their news elsewhere

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
11. Only a small fraction of the general public watch the shows you refer to or go to the
Wed Dec 21, 2011, 08:19 PM
Dec 2011

internet sights you mean. Millions depend on the corp-media and they wont get this message.

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