So he’s not a total douchebag, even if he does oppose extending unemployment benefits. (I love the standard “I think 99 weeks is enough.” Enough for what? If they exist because there aren’t enough jobs, and there still aren’t enough jobs, why is it too long? No one ever thinks to ask.)
GOP Rep.-elect Richard Hanna (NY) separated himself from hardliners in his party like Camp yesterday during an interview with a State of Politics reporter. The interviewer asked Hanna, “There’s a lot of people in your party that are already talking about taking a hard line and not compromising with the president. What do you think?” Hanna responded by saying that he doesn’t “feel that way. And I think that ultimately if the Republican Party takes that kind of posture, then they will be punished in two years, becaues people are sick of partisanship“:
INTERVIEWER: There’s a lot of people in your party that are already talking about taking a hard line and not compromising with the president. What do you think? Is it too early, are you going to get your feet wet and then decide, or are you going to take a hard line, are there certain things you won’t compromise on?
HANNA: I’m sure there are, but I’m sure there’s many things I’m sure we’ll be able to work together with. I don’t feel that way. And I think that ultimately if the Republican Party takes that kind of posture, then they will be punished in two years, because people are sick of partisanship. And I think if you live in New York you have a particularly good view of the product it makes over time. That’s not my goal, my goal is to find solutions and work for them.
I see that the Republican leaders of the House have not yet “explained” things to this gentleman…
That’s Bullshit. Hanna calls for compromise? Has he done anything for compromise? Attend me well: When you vote for a Republican, it never ever matters what they said they’d do. They all vote lockstep with whoever is the speaker/majority leader. When you vote for a Republican, you’re either voting for Mitch McConnell or John Boehner. They never deviate. They never represent their constituents. All else is just posturing and bullshit theory theater, so when Hanna “calls for compromise” it means he won’t get reelected unless he says so. But he’s not ever going to vote his conscience, and the time for compromise is over. Republicans want tax cuts for billionaires?
FUCK THAT! YOU NEED 60 VOTES IN THE SENATE FOR THAT MOTHERFUCKERS!
Republicans want a Colombia Free Trade Agreement?
60 VOTES!
Republicans want to raise the debt ceiling?
COMPROMISE ON 60 VOTES MOTHERFUCKERS! LET THEIR BOND TRADING BACKERS SWEAT IT OUT AND DRAG RAND PAUL OVER EVERY AGONIZING EXCRUTIATING OPPORTUNITY TO PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS MOUTH IS.
Want to shut down the government? LET THEM.
Want to default on the national debt and screw the dollar? WARREN BUFFET HAS BILLIONS OF REASONS HE’D RATHER THAT NOT HAPPEN. Personally, I don’t have any.
The next republican president wants to appoint judges? A secretary of state? Funds to run the white house? YOU NEED 60 VOTES FOR THAT.