[lbo-talk] so much for post-partisanship

Eubulides paraconsistent at comcast.net
Wed Jan 28 20:11:14 PST 2009


----- Original Message ----- From: "Shane Taylor" <shane.taylor at verizon.net> To: "LBO-Talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] so much for post-partisanship


> Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>> There might be some political payoff to having wooed them so publicly
>> and assiduously (and getting them to say in public that never before
>> has any Democrat gone so far in reaching out to them) before voting
>> against them party line. Maybe this won't turn out to be an entirely
>> soft-headed strategy in the end. Maybe this unity talk has more guile
>> in it than it's been given credit for.
>
> Maybe, or maybe Obama underestimates party discipline on the other side of
> the aisle. Maybe he has mistaken for an obstreperous minority what is the
> party core, mistook their very identity for a exhausted tactic. Maybe he
> simply can not, as a matter of temperament, understand fanatics.
>

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You mean these guys?

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-korea-fight28-2009jan28,0,4741734.story



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