Friday, January 31, 2014

The difficulty of being Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers

www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/31/1274034/-The-difficulty-of-being-Rep-Cathy-McMorris-Rodgers
"And yet, in her district, people are flocking to Obamacare — well beyond the national average. Though she has been screening town hall meetings to highlight only critics of the new law, her constituents are doing something entirely different in making their personal health decisions. Which is a problem not just for McMorris Rodgers, but for most Republicans; the policies demanded by the party are often directly harmful to the actual constituents who keep them in office. The solution for this is, by and large, the solution we saw in McMorris Rodgers' State of the Union response. You say nothing, and you say nothing as generically as possible, and you hope and pray that nobody will point out that you have just spent so much time saying empty nothings"