Arianna Huffington's Ideas on Bi-Partisanship

It's called "ancient Greece" because it's dead.

Greece was the cradle of Democracy and even though that country peaked over 2,000 years ago, its ideals and contribution towards civilization are still felt today. Arianna Stassinopoulos, I mean Arianna Huffington, might not have paid too much attention during her time in school with this “observation” in the Wall Street Journal:

Some, including Sens. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and Evan Bayh (D., Ind.), are saying that the outcome in Massachusetts is an indication that Mr. Obama and the Democrats need to move to the middle and focus on trying to make bipartisan deals. This, of course, is exactly what the Democrats have been doing all year. If they redouble their efforts to curry favor with the Olympia Snowes of the world they’ll be making a grave mistake.

Ms. Huffington might want to give up her position as head of the violently Liberal Daily Kos and, instead, turn to comedy.  I’d imagine there are many inside-the-Beltway lounges still left where she could make people laugh.

Conservative detractors like to point to Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly as being the defacto leaders of the Republican Party.  With her website garnering over 500,000 unique visits per day, I guess she may be the defacto influencer of the Democratic Party.

And this is why Democrats are clueless, drifting, and on their way to a major sinking in November 2010.

Let’s examine a couple of examples of Democrats working with Republicans to make “bipartisan deals” and of them moving “to the middle.”

From the Liberal MSNBC:

House and Senate Democrats intend to bypass traditional procedures when they negotiate a final compromise on health care legislation, officials said Monday, a move that will exclude Republican lawmakers and reduce their ability to delay or force politically troubling votes in both houses.

Let’s take a look at the “stimulus” from February 2009:

Republicans have caught the Democrats in a midnight “stimulus” power play that seeks to cut Republican conferees out of the House-Senate negotiations to resolve a final version of the Obama “stimulus” package. Staff members from the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) met last night to put together the “stimulus” conference report.

They intend to attempt to shove this $1.3 trillion spending bill through in the dead of the night without Republican input so floor action can take place in both chambers on Thursday.

Well, let’s be fair to the Democrats… after all, healthcare only comprises about 1/6th of the U.S. economy and the “stimulus” bill was only the largest spending bill signed into law.  So it was nothing important.

From Ms. Huffington’s own website (which she must not read) we have an interesting story about how Democrats not only excluded Republicans but also excluded other Democrats:

Forty-five House Democrats in the party’s moderate-to-conservative wing have protested the secretive process by which party leaders in their chamber are developing legislation to remake the health care system.

The lawmakers, members of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition, said they were “increasingly troubled” by their exclusion from the bill-writing process.

Finally, let’s examine how true to their principles Democrats have been regarding “making bipartisan deals” and how things change when they got a taste of power:

And now House and Senate Democrat leaders are reportedly preparing to cut dissenters out of the reconciliation process by bypassing the formal conference committee.

In 2006, House Democrats asserted that “House-Senate conferences are a critical part of the deliberative process because they produce the final legislative product that will become the law of the land.” That same year, Harry Reid railed on the Senate floor against informal deal-making that circumvented the conference committee process – and he attacked the use of manager’s amendments to avoid public scrutiny.

As far as that whole “moving to the middle” bit survey after survey has shown that America is more Conservative than Liberal and, in poll after poll, ideas such as Cap and Trade and Obamakare have been more unfavorable than favorable.  And as for that “stimulus” well, more Americans give that a thumb down, too.  Doesn’t sound like the “middle” to me.

Looking at these facts it would be rather difficult to believe how Ms. Huffington could make the assertions that she does.  One wonders what readers of the Wall Street Journal will think when they pick up their paper and realize that instead of a serious business and political publication it is, instead, filled with amateur comedy.

So if Ms. Huffington represents the defacto influencer for the Democratic Party then it is easy to understand why Liberals are in such trouble politically in America.

Here’s hoping Ms. Huffington continues to fight the “good fight” and fills our dreary world with laughter and idiocy the way only Kool Aid drinking Liberals can!

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