I think this article misinterprets Rush’s statement on process and policy to mean that Republicans ought to toss policy ideas out the window. That’s not what he seems to be getting at, at all. His point is that, when interviewing nationally elected Republicans on Capital Hill, when they’re asked about the Stimulus, for instance, instead of responding “It’s horrid. It’s wrong. It’s trading 30% of our future income for a 10% return on infrastructure and 90% increase in Democratic political support and social welfare incareases.” or the like, they start talking about how they can use the power of this committee or that committee to ameliorate the proposed spending of $140 million on mattress subsidies for low income folks to only $138 million…
Looked at from the other side, the Democrats, during Bush’s Administration, when asked about anything at all would start by declaiming that Bush was wrong, deceitful, making the world hate the US, etc etc.
Rush is right, the Republican approach wins no public support. Who is going to get excited about hearing Boehner wax rhapsodic about the %0.8 reduction in waste he was able to leverage on a spending bill? The Democrats may not have been factual, may have sounded like they were reading a protest flyer all the time, but at least they engaged the voting public.
