Toral
2009-01-23 18:15:27
I expect things to work like this:
1) Obama invites GOP input and listens politely;
2) Obama proceeds with what he intended to do originally, offering 3 or 4 small-to-medium compromises (per major policy package) to the GOP if they give the package substantial support;
3) Pelosi removes all but 1 small compromise from Obama’s proposed package and rams the bill through the House; Reid does the same in the Senate;
4) Obama expresses disappointment in the removal of his compromises and says that he wishes that the process in Congress could have been more bipartisan and incorporated some good Republican ideas so that it might have gotten more Republican support. Then he signs the bill as Pelosi has redesigned it.
