The President’s budget passed the House 233-196 and 55-43 in the Senate. According to Politico, this means it “fell short”. And this is why modern journalism has screwed itself without any help from we readers.
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There’s this thing called “context” that often applies to stories. The Politico wasn’t referring to the vote when they said “fell short.” Sheesh.
In all fairness, the requirement to pass liberal bills is 60 votes. Everyone knows that.
Only conservative bills can be passed on 50 vote margins.
More mindless insider worship at the altar of “bipartisanship.”
Look, the Congressional GOP is in an odd position–they are in such a small minority, they can openly pander to their whackjob base without actually doing any harm to the country. They can all avoid the stigma of “caving to Obama” without having to worry that their obstructionism actually prevents anything useful from happening.
Frankly, it’s just the position we, as Democrats, should want them to take.
As far as the Politico goes, they seem to be saying that the absence of any Republican votes for the budget matters, because cylindrical hatrack.
The internet successes of the right wing enabling Drudge/Politico.com media axis is one of the things that traditional news papers are competing with.
Politico.com’s internet “success”* has been hugely boosted by a TON of lefty bloggers regularly linking to the site. Why? One of the reasons was that some lefties hate news papers so much that they were excited to link to a purely online publication that circumvented that dastardly “modern journalism.”
Lefties were so enamored of the “new” internet that they helped build the brand of a Republican owned, right wing enabling, Drudge coordinating, piece of trash journalism.
What was especially weird was how few Dems realized that during Democratic primaries Politico.com would smack down one Democratic leader at a time, one after another, and all the online Dems from competing camps would link to those stories slamming their Democratic competitors.
It was the classic Dem circular firing squad and Politico.com/Drudge were selling the bullets and guns to everyone in the circle.
The death of “modern journalism” has Allbritton, Murdoch, Scaife, Moon, Zell, and the other right wing billionaires laughing all the way to the bank.**
* Has the Politico.com even broken even yet? Wasn’t it still losing money and expected to continue losing money for another year or so?
** Any money lost by right wing billionaires with their “news” papers is more than made up by their wins in the political arena in other areas: reduced regulation, lower taxes on the uber wealthy, etc….
The over looked sad fact is though that we don’t hire/vote for our legislators to become lap dogs for their party leadership. When did ‘constituent’ become a forgotten word in their vocabulary?