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Boehner Rejects Bipartisanship

By TChris

Pushing the new talking point that "America remains a center-right country" (despite electing a candidate branded by Republicans as a socialist), John Boehner, in a desperate attempt to seem relevant, wrote to his House GOP colleagues urging them to reject Barack Obama's invitation to bipartisan cooperation.

Democrats should not make the mistake of viewing Tuesday's results as a repudiation of conservatism or a validation of big government. Neither should we. Instead of throwing in the towel, as our opponents demand, we must redouble our efforts to develop forward-looking solutions to the challenges Americans face - solutions rooted in the enduring principles of reform that define us as a party.

Those would be the "enduring principles of reform" that were on display when the GOP controlled the House, Senate, and presidency under Bush? Principles like corruption, cronyism, profligate spending, preemptive war against oil-rich nations, torture, illegal wiretapping, and outing CIA agents as an instrument of vengeance? Yep, we wouldn't want to make the mistake of thinking that voters repudiated any of that by telling so many Republican politicians to find new work.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on November 05, 2008 (boomark / email).