Or as the real great communicator, Yogi Berra, once said, "This is like deja vu all over again" ...
As it stands now I can't vote for it," McCain said on Fox television.We don't need Republican votes to succeed
House Republican leader John Boehner said there won't be much — if any — support from Republicans, without significant changes.
Probably the most important and most successful piece of fiscal/economic legislation passed in the last 60-70 years was Bill Clinton's, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. You do remember all that prosperity and those four consecutive budget surpluses don't you?
The year was 1993 and the country was reeling from 12 consecutive and massive budget deficits from Ronald Reagan and the first George Bush and Clinton was bound and determined to change the economic calamity caused by his two predecessors.
Republicans would have none of it; they all said the modest tax increases would cripple the economy; that companies would cut jobs and unemployment would soar.
Not a single Republican voted for Bill Clinton's 1993 Budget Reconciliation Act. Not one. In the House the vote was 218-216, with 217 Democrats and Independent Bernie Sanders voting yes. In the Senate it was even closer with VP Al Gore's vote breaking a 50-50 tie - all 50 'yes' votes coming from Democrats. Every single Republican in Congress voted against this great piece of legislation that gave this country the best eight years in most of our lifetimes.
And we all know how that worked out. We have been here and done that before. America doesn't need Republican votes to succeed. In fact, history has shown quite the contrary; we do much better without them.
