The Unifying Leader
by David Brooks
NOV. 24, 2014
Mr. Brooks, in his typical passive-agrassive mode, leads in to this discussion of collaboration by referring to "leaders", which is correct and proper. But, expectedly, he quickly degenerates into blaming only the president for lack of collaboration.
Every half-way intelligent and open-minded observer can see that the non-collaboration, indeed the closed-mindedness and confrontation, was primarily on the side of the GOP leadership in House and Senate - add a good dose of incompetence to the mix, also.
Any "leader", who states as his primary legislative goal after the 2008 election, to make the president fail to ensure a one-term president, does not know the meaning of collaboration.
President Obama, in designing "his" ACA, leaned over backwards to include Republican ideas, indeed modeling the legislation on the example of his future GOP opponent, Romney. Many of the problems with the ACA are indeed the result of this excessive attempt to include conservative ideas.
Let's see how well the new GOP majority is at "collaboration". So far the signs are very bad, as the standard GOP response to everything seems to be "shut down the government".
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