William Kristol urges GOP to obstruct and delay Obama's agenda.

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/25/AR2009022501756.html

After Tuesday night, no one should doubt Barack Obama's ambition. His silent dismissal of the efforts of his immediate predecessors -- he mentioned none of them -- is only one indication of the extent to which he intends to be a new president breaking new ground in a new era.

For Obama's aim is not merely to "revive this economy, but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity." Obama outlined much of this new foundation in the most unabashedly liberal and big-government speech a president has delivered to Congress since Lyndon Baines Johnson. Obama intends to use his big three issues -- energy, health care and education -- to transform the role of the federal government as fundamentally as did the New Deal and the Great Society.

Perhaps -- if they can find reasons to obstruct and delay. They should do their best not to permit Obama to rush his agenda through this year. They can't allow Obama to make of 2009 what Franklin Roosevelt made of 1933 or Johnson of 1965. Slow down the policy train. Insist on a real and lengthy debate. Conservatives can't win politically right now. But they can raise doubts, they can point out other issues that we can't ignore (especially in national security and foreign policy), they can pick other fights -- and they can try in any way possible to break Obama's momentum. Only if this happens will conservatives be able to get a hearing for their (compelling, in my view) arguments against big-government, liberal-nanny-state social engineering -- and for their preferred alternatives

[izquierdista]

1. They can't win...

but they can turn into roadkill. Go on, Bill, why don't you find a busy freeway to play in the middle of.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Is this the BEST they got?? Sniping and Whining??? Obstructing??

Its a gamble....an ALL IN GAMBLE....for if President OBAMA wins the Word War with results....the GOP will be Mauled and Hauled to the DUMP

[rurallib]

3. In turn Harry Reid should drop the phony new 'filibuster' rule

[Captain Hilts]

4. THIS is why I cancelled my subscription to the Wash Post. And David Gerson being hired.

The Republican party has been solidly rejected in two consecutive elections. Our guy is in charge.

Learn to suck on it and like it Bill.

[driver8]

5. Why are people listening to this piece of shit?

Has this asshole ever been right on anything??

[notadmblnd]

7. They like his Thurston Howell III imitation?

That's who he reminds me of.

[Historic NY]

6. Roadblock Repukes, obstructing progress. Why do Repukes hate America?

I find that interesting that They still target FDR & Johnson. Why, because their programs worked for the most part to benefit all.

[LiberalFighter]

8. I urge everyone to throw cow and horse manure at Kristol. Oh well. I can hope!

[infidel dog]

12. I think elephant shit would be more fitting.

[certainot]

9. 1000 radio stations lying, distorting, swiftboating 24/7/365

and all that coordinated UNCONTESTED repetition does the groundwork for the GOP propaganda and obstruction

it enables the tradmedia that wants their deregulation and tax breaks, and their politicians, including the limbaugh democrats (blue dog)

if they held a rational position in the political spectrum it would be one thing but to completely dominate the PUBLIC airwaves, from stations chartered to broadcast in the public interest, and give us 24/7/365 attacks on anything progressive with call screeners that make sure no real calls get through, with paid callers sitting in think tank basements, and all singing the same global warming denial tune, how can progressives keep ignoring them?

we need a new Fairness Doctrine, or anything to even the playing field. their free market and free speech arguments are BOGUS.

the GOP has become the party of LIMBAUGH and there is no more effective way to get america back on the right track than for progressives to take the talk radio monopoly seriously

[Turbineguy]

10. Yeah, it does look like Obama

is trying to revive the nightmare of peace and prosperity that cast such a gloomy cloud over the Clinton administration.

[Doctor_J]

11. I agree. Then in 2011 we'll have 64 Senators and 275 Reps

and the GOP will be dead by 2016.

Finally, something the Village Idiot and I can agree on.