With all the buzz about yesterday’s Republican debate, you might have missed the latest news from Capitol Hill: The Democrats are, yet again, failures. A Washington Post headline today says it all: “Democrats Bow to Bush’s Demands in House Spending Bill.” The article begins:
The article lists other expected failures for the Democrats, like Bush’s threats to veto the spending bill and the energy bill. The Hill has a similar headline: “Democrats cave on spending.” And to make matters worse, the Post also reports, “Democrats Blaming Each Other For Failures.” Read Captain Ed’s analysis of the spending squabble. He says, “The new effort has succeeded in splitting the Democratic majority. More to the point, it has rescued George Bush from lame-duck status and given the Republicans some sorely needed credibility on fiscal responsibility.” In another post, he continues, “This hasn’t just been a Do-Nothing Congress; it’s been a Disaster On The Hill. Other than a minimum-wage hike that they had to attach to an otherwise strings-free Iraq war supplemental, the Democrats haven’t done anything of note except to besmirch David Petraeus.” The Democrats are predictable. In fact, Brian Faughnan predicted these headlines here yesterday. Michelle Malkin has more on the “Democrat party meltdown.” Even non-conservative bloggers are disappointed in the Dems, to say the least. Matthew Yglesias says, “But to make a long story short, a combination of Senate filibusters, White House veto threats, and Democratic unwillingness to push the envelop of confrontation, has the Republican minority getting its way on overall domestic spending levels, on war funding, on AMT offsets, and basically on everything else.” And Glenn Greenwald at Salon dissects these newspaper headlines and concludes, “Nothing exudes strength, courage, toughness and resolve like having your behavior continuously described–accurately–as ‘bowing,’ ‘capitulating,’ ‘backing down,’ ‘caving’ and ‘surrendering.’ Those are the verbs Americans love most when looking for the party to lead them.” Merry Christmas from the blogosphere, Nancy!
