Bipartisanship Means Never Having to Say, “Hey! Let’s Try Your Idea!”
James Clyburn may not be the brightest bulb in the Congressional drawer, but he’s certainly one of the most entertaining. Ed Morrissey caught him on CNN this weekend trying to convince us that bipartisanship really meant “do what I want and forget what you want”.
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) charged Sunday that Republicans need to stop talking about cutting taxes and “look to the future with a little more compassion and bipartisanship.”
Clyburn and House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) were asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the three-page letter President Barack Obama sent to congressional leaders Saturday, saying that the extension of tax cuts and spending programs was critically needed to keep the economy from sliding “backwards.” …
Clyburn charged that Republicans were approaching economic recovery with “a simplistic approach.”
“Let’s stop talk about cuttting taxes, cutting taxes, cutting taxes,” he said.
Ed takes Clyburn to the woodshed for a well-deserved spanking. The Congressman was instrumental in building the debt that hangs over us like an entire Matterhorn of precariously-balanced snow and he doesn’t seem particularly interested in dealing with it. One day, sooner rather than later, that avalanche will come rolling down on top of us whether we like it or not. We can either get about solving the problem that Clyburn and his stuck-in-the-30s progressive pals are determined to make worse or we can let it bury all of us. In neither case should we be taking advice on “bipartisanship” from a played-out partisan hack like Clyburn.
Other Posts of Interest:
- Thank You, Republicans, for Our New Treasury Secretary, Fraudy McTaxCheat
- A Year from Now, Remember Today
- So Where in the Justice Part of the Tax Code Do We Find Cheating?
Category: Our New Democratic Overlords, Progressives
