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I got a mass emailing asking me to sign an e-petition:
It’s time for Speaker Boehner, Eric Cantor, and House Republicans to get real.
Instead of accepting the open hand that President Obama, Senator Reid, and I have extended to work out a bipartisan solution to the default crisis -- a crisis that Republicans themselves have created -- the House GOP has, yet again, batted it away.
Their latest move? Ramming an irresponsible bill through the House that would require us to have this very same debate again six months from now -- and, unbelievably, require Congress to amend the Constitution before raising the debt ceiling again.
In short, House Republicans have decided to put the interests of the extreme right-wing fringe of their party ahead of the interests of the American people.
It's reckless, it’s dangerous -- and it's wrong.
Click here to tell Speaker Boehner, Eric Cantor, and House Republicans to get real: Stop holding America’s economy hostage, and work for a responsible solution to the default crisis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm tired of singing petitions. Here was my response:
No.
They've been told that enough times.
It is time for the Democrats to stop giving way and bending over until they have acquiesced to 99.99% of the Republican position. The Republican argument in 2012 will then be: "See? We were right. Even the Democrats voted for our plan, so vote with us in 2012, because the whole country now realizes our plan is best."
Their plan is NOT best. We were wrong to negotiate away as much as we have, and drawing a line in the sand NOW gives us Democrats a chance to back away from the insane amount of concessions we have offered so far. We got a huge majority in 2008 by saying we were different from Republicans. We gave a lot of it up in 2010 by trying to say how similar we were (hint we had better NOT be). Doesn't ANYONE in the strategic planning of the Democratic Party get this?
It has ALWAYS been true that when offered Republican Lite or the real thing, voters will choose the real thing. How about Democrat (the real thing) for once, assuming the species has not yet become extinct?
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