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Sunday, August 17, 2003
posted by gbarto at 5:26 PM:
Abraham: Lawmakers Must Act on Energy BillEnergy secretary says the Bush administration has been doing all it can to prevent the types of failures that resulted in the 2003 blackout
One hopes to see this theme hammered home and hard. But at the same time, we need to remember that Republicans have nominal control of all branches of government. Readers of this blog are, likely, sufficiently sentient to realize that nominal control is not real control. In fact, just barely having nominal control is often worse than being just short of it. One the one hand, you're seemingly all-powerful; on the other hand, you have zero room for maneuvering. The Specters, Domenicis, McCains, et al wind up setting the agenda because keeping them on board becomes your focus. One need only note how liberated Bill Clinton was by trading in a barely loyal Democratic Congress for an overconfident but undermanned Republican one.
This brings us to the Republicans' problem. They are going to have to explain - again - a little bit about how Washington works. They are going to need to teach every American names like Robert Byrd while making clear just how much power such men wield, particularly in byzantine institutions like the Senate. Then they can make Abrahams case while arguing what we've really needed to be arguing for quite some time: George W. Bush needs a more supportive Congress in order to do the people's business and it will be Congress' (and, whisper it quietly, the people's) fault if he can't.
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