Posted on 07/02/2009 11:37:19 AM PDT by Nachum
Jane Hamsher details the extremely aggressive tactics the White House and House leadership used to coerce liberal environmentalist members to vote for the cap-and-trade bill despite their belief that it helped polluters more than it did anything else (and remember their ability to do that the next time they claim that a bill they ostensibly support simply couldn't pass because it lacked the necessary votes). Jane quotes from a Politico article reporting on White House anger towards environmentalist Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, due to an impassioned floor speech he gave arguing that the bill was so industry-friendly that it would do more harm than good. That article contains this quote:
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The list, ping
It’s funny to read their comments. They are disillusioned with his tactics from the Left!! One comment was “Just who the [leftist-blog-accepting f-word] does Obama think elected him??”
Rolling, floor, laughing.
Jane Hamsher details the extremely aggressive tactics the White House and House leadership used to coerce liberal environmentalist members to vote for the cap-and-trade bill despite their belief that it helped polluters more than it did anything else (and remember their ability to do that the next time they claim that a bill they ostensibly support simply couldn't pass because it lacked the necessary votes).
Jane quotes from a Politico article reporting on White House anger towards environmentalist Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, due to an impassioned floor speech he gave arguing that the bill was so industry-friendly that it would do more harm than good. That article contains this quote:
The White House is smoking mad at Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), who says he's voting against the climate bill — despite the lobbying of the entire First Family in the Oval Office last night.
If the bill goes down, Obama won't forget Doggett's role, Democrats say.
It's "stunning that he would ignore the wishes not just of his president, but of his constituents and the country,” said an administration official...
This administration defines creepy.
Chicago Politics as Usual Ping!
That one is pretty creepy if you asked me.
Isn’t this just hardball? I think all presidents must do this even though his threats may be worse.
It's "stunning that he would ignore the wishes not just of his president, but of his constituents and the country,” said an administration official.
Even the "progressives" are feeling the heat of The Annointed One's dictatorial tendencies.
When they voted for a socialist tyrant, what did they expect?
I thought he voted for cap and trade tax.
Never say never........... :-(
If the bill goes down, Obama won't forget Doggett's role, Democrats say.It's "stunning that he would ignore the wishes not just of his president, but of his constituents and the country,” said an administration official.
White House Chicago dirty politics as usual.
Of course, BO and his enforcers knew that this squishy little lib from Austin, Lloyd Doggett, would fold like a cheap umbrella. He did not disappoint them. Now he posts on his laughable website that he voted “yes” in order to “improve the bill.” He counts on the abject ignorance of the Austin/UT crowd who doesn’t know that the bill goes to the Senate now with no such “improvements.” All Dog-face Doggett did was to cave to BO and his lobbyist friends at GE and Goldman Sachs.
“the wishes not just of his president”
In Germany, Furhrer, and Chancellor were normal words. Like president is to us. Obama is a despotic thug.
Lead by example, sir...
as demonstrated by recent events....
That article contains this quote:
The White House is smoking mad at Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), who says he’s voting against the climate bill — despite the lobbying of the entire First Family in the Oval Office last night.
If the bill goes down, Obama won’t forget Doggett’s role, Democrats say.
It’s “stunning that he would ignore the wishes not just of his president, but of his constituents and the country,” said an administration official.
This has become an emerging theme among both the White House and House leadership: that progressive members of Congress have an obligation to carry out “the wishes of the President” even when they disagree (now, apparently, it’s “stunning” when they defy his dictates). That was the same subservient mentality that led House Democrats who admitted they opposed the war supplemental spending and/or the foreign bank bailout to nonetheless vote for the bill: because they President favored it. The duty of Congress is not to obey the wishes of the President.
Note, too, that the sort of bullying tactics that were used for the war supplemental bill and now for the cap-and-trade bill are only directed towards the House progressives who want legislation to be less beholden to corporate donors; those tactics are never invoked against Blue Dogs who play a vital role in impeding progressive legislation and thus supply the perfect excuse for Democratic leaders as to why such legislation does not pass. Let’s see if these tactics are used against Blue Dogs who impede a public option for health care, the repeal of DOMA and Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and various issues relating to the closing of Guantanamo. Will we hear condemnations from Rahm Emanuel’s underlings about how stunning and outrageous it is that conservative Democrats are “ignoring the wishes of the President?”
Wow. I never thought I would see something like this covered in salon.
e.g., Tom Tancredo.
People are so uninformed that they don't even realize these are two of the three separate but equal branches of the federal government. It isn't a hierarchy that you can turn into an oligarchy, though Obama thinks it is.
Rules for Radicals. They playbook has been gathering dust on your local library shelf for more than forty years.
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