Playing Nice

“We are not doomed to endless gridlock,” said Barack Obama today. I wonder if that is a good thing or not? If you have only averted that gridlock by constant capitulation to the other side, oft times prematurely.  Some gout ridden old fossil like Mitch McConnell threatens to shut off government and you shake in your boots and give away the store. If you had waited a little longer on the tax cuts, maybe they could have felt some of the heat, no? Cut off all their lazy constituent's unemployment checks and see what happens...But enough about the past, it is a new day after all.


Dealing with the obstructionist Republicans should be like the recent South Korean reaction to the North. We are going to drill and we are going to respond and if you don't like it, tough shit. And the North backed down and whimpered for once. It's like piss on it, you want to fight, lets fight. 


Ditto the Republican's losing hand on not granting benefits to 9/11 responders. The responders got in Tom Coburn's face today, tried to look him in the eye. Who's the good american again? And the GOP backed down.


Obama scored one with the Start treaty today so he deserves a little credit. And I hope that my conservative friends agree, or at least agree with Colin Powell and the first George Bush, two supporters of the treaty. John Kyl looked like he had drank spoiled milk. And McCain is all apoplectic about DADT repeal. 

Maybe the President can get a little headwind and make a few more things happen. See what else he really actually believes in...