“We just simply don’t know how to govern,” Womack, a member of the House Budget Committee, told the Washington Post. “It’s almost like we’re serving in the minority right now.”
Truth, not truthiness, at last!
Be still, oh my heart.
We just simply don’t know how to govern
This should be in every Democratic campaign commercial for 2018 and 2020, like the approval disclaimer.
“We just simply don’t know how to govern,” Womack, a member of the House Budget Committee, told the Washington Post.
Funny you should mention that, but others have made similar observations.
Elizabeth Drew said this yesterday, but it applies to just about everything the GOP does.
The Rs just learned what happens when you run on a substance-free slogan. Will they remember?
— Elizabeth Drew (@ElizabethDrewOH) June 27, 2017
No shit, Sherlock.
Now get more of your fellow Republicans to admit that they can’t govern and that they will just abstain from trying and let the Democrats do it. Or, change parties and learn.
I do love that woman – what a journalist!
Weird that the party that hates government and doesn’t take it seriously by appointing hacks/donors to key positions would be so bad at running the thing they hate.
Someone forgot to share the GOP memo with this guy–
The goal of the GOP is disruption, dysfunction, and destruction.
Oh, and tax breaks for the donor class.
It’s really an exercise in coalition politics, which requires compromise to be successful. Conservatives, to preserve ideological purity, have conflated political compromise with moral failure. That worked ok as long as they were the opposition. But it looks as if they thought they would never be in the majority and expected to govern. The conservatives need to loosen up, and the leaders need to “Come to Jesus” around the idea that it isn’t evil to work with Democrats to accomplish something.
The clarity, the understanding and psychological insight she brings to murky, complex stuff is just genius-level work. One of the all-time best.
The fish rots from the head down. And that’s some kind of head fish ya got there, GOP…
The Newt legacy. Or, framed another way, The Curse of the Newt.
This is EXACTLY what I was referring to in an earlier thread on RumpCare.
Getting a budget together isn’t gonna be an easier than getting a repeal on the ACA. We saw this for the past four years where the Rethugs controlled the House and the Senate under Pres. Obama. Too bad for them, things haven’t gotten any better under Rump.
This will be a bad summer for all in DC and, maybe, the country.
Boehner realized this years ago, pal. Maybe borrow a page from his playbook.
HAH!
“We just simply don’t know how to govern,” Womack, a member of the House Budget Committee, told the Washington Post.
If there was a category in The Guinness Book of World Records for the biggest understatement so far this year, this should come in near the top, maybe even first place.
Not only do they not know how to govern, they shouldn’t be anywhere near the halls of Congress trying to pretend they do.
I sure hope they caught this guy saying this stuff on video. What a lovely ad that would make with regards to his next election by his opponent.
But he did get better.
I’ll add that I absolutely adore how much enjoyment Jennifer Rubin is getting out of excoriating the GOP for exactly this issue.
Man does not govern by slogans alone.