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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, February 11, 2005

Flip flopping's so last fall

Feb 2nd, 2005:
In the House, where every seat is up for election every two years, Republican leaders want the president to present a specific plan and work to sell it to the country before pressing Congress to vote.

Feb 11, 2005:
"I don't want them [the administration] to do our job, which is create legislation," House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said in an interview. "Information is power in this debate, and we're going to see that our members get as much of it as possible."

I guess the "crisis" can wait, possibly as long as two years.