GOP Expects Democrats To Overreach

[rodeodance]

maybe

GOP Expects Democrats To Overreach

One of the calculations by House and Senate Republicans in deciding to lay low for a while when it comes to attacking Democrats is that their foes will eventually start displaying their liberal tendencies on issues like abortion and taxes, making them easier targets. "They'll go liberal by April or May, we think, when the honeymoon is over," a Senate GOP official tells the US News Political Bulletin. "When their true colors show, that's when we'll step it up," added the official. In the first few weeks of the new Congress, GOP leaders have decided not to attack the Democrats who are expected to have a honeymoon with voters and the press. Republicans calculate, however, that after a few victories during the 100-hour project touching moderate issues, Democrats will overreach and move to tackle more traditionally liberal issues such as raising taxes or pushing back on abortion curbs.

Democrats Enjoying Honeymoon In Poll USA Today reports a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll "shows that Americans by nearly 2-to-1 want congressional Democrats, not President Bush, to have more influence over the direction the nation takes during the next year." Democratic congressional leaders "get their highest rating since Bush took office in 2001; 59% of those surveyed say their policies would move the country in the right direction," and "at "least for the moment, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California can bask in a 2-to-1 favorable rating: 44% say they have a favorable impression of her, 22% an unfavorable one."

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_070109.htm#p2

[yurbud]

1. so Dems should use strategery and not reach at all? Sounds like another no win meme

no little or a modest amount and be called impotent. Do "too much" and be called over-reaching.

[yurbud]

2. Democrats expect GOP to be cry babies worried that they will be pulled away from the corporate teat

[ReadTomPaine]

3. Another "warning" from the GOP not to govern from strength.

There's nothing they fear more than outspoken, resolute democrats in office. There will be a lot more of this, both here and on the hill.

[NewJeffCT]

4. I'd rather have Dems overreach than under-reach

And, no matter what they do, Republics won't be matter. So, no sense in listening to them.

[DavidDvorkin]

5. Any magazine that doesn't know the difference between "lie" and "lay"

Can't be taken seriously.

[Doctor_J]

6. Yes - maybe they'll try to annex a ME country

seriously, what would be an "overreach" in comparison to the reactionaries that have ruled for 6 years?