tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061582353562134652.post3445224290450871154..comments2024-03-26T16:02:48.175-07:00Comments on Very Angry Bird: Look in the mirror sir...Very Angry Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15026531280513685057noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061582353562134652.post-87047576375360413122017-03-26T21:22:18.637-07:002017-03-26T21:22:18.637-07:00Big policy change is hard. The modern Republican P...Big policy change is hard. The modern Republican Party has built itself in opposition. Paul Ryan won fame designing budgets that were never meant to pass, and by criticizing Barack Obama. Donald Trump established himself as a political force through his leadership of the crackpot birther movement. This is a party that has forgotten how to do the slow, arduous work of governing. Perhaps it’s worse than that. This is a party, in many ways, that has built its majority upon a contempt for the compromises, quarter-loaves, and tough trade-offs that governing entails. They need to learn from this defeat, or they are doomed to repeat it, and repeat it, and repeat it.<br /><br />In the interviews Trump is giving today, it is clear he has somehow convinced himself tax reform will be easier. It won’t be. And soon, Republicans will have to raise the debt ceiling, and pass their appropriations bills, and, if they’re going to hold to any of Trump’s budget proposals, find 60 votes to bust the budget caps. And they’re going to do all of that with the myth of Ryan’s policy genius and Trump’s dealmaking skill shattered.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04401746259487330914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7061582353562134652.post-82751995335299645942017-03-26T09:33:22.190-07:002017-03-26T09:33:22.190-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04401746259487330914noreply@blogger.com