GOP Fired Up By Stimulus Battle: "We're Picking Good Fights"

DC Examiner:

You see it all over Capitol Hill, in the hallways, the hearing rooms, the gathering spots. Republicans, coming off a devastating, across-the-board electoral defeat, are ... happy. Being in opposition, after eight years of a Republican presidency and 12 years of GOP rule in Congress, suits many of them just fine.

It's not that they were glad to lose. There are a lot of indignities involved in being the minority, and a pretty small minority at that. But talk to Republican lawmakers and insiders these days, and they speak as if an enormous weight has been lifted from their shoulders. Some of that weight was named George W. Bush, but in a larger sense, Republicans are relieved to be free of the burden of running things.

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Comments

[Shammie2000]

05:50 PM on 02/09/2009

The question should be, how could 50+ million American be stupid enough to vote ReThug's.

[AGarcia]

04:24 PM on 02/09/2009

Isn't anyone going to explain to them that hoping the President fails is hoping the country fails? Why is the party that's anti-government interested in governing? It's complete hypocrisy. The question should, be are they really interested in running the government into the ground in order to say, "government doesn't work"? Ant-education? When will someone call them on it?

[MJJM]

01:30 PM on 02/09/2009

They are fired up about their voting base. But that base got crushed in the last election and it will get crushed again!!

[Mavsreader]

11:22 AM on 02/09/2009

Sounds like another republican misread.