This pretty much explains why President Obama and Democrats in Congress have been unable to strike agreement with Republicans on any issue.
Frankly, the Republicans’ strategy for dealing with everything from the banking crisis to climate change has been every bit as cynical and simplistic as Nancy Regan’s strategy for fighting the war on drugs: “just say no“. In fact, here’s how Obama chided them recently during a speech in which he touted the success of his economic recovery initiatives, which brought the US from the brink of a second Depression:
If the just-say-no crowd had won out, if we had done things the way they wanted to go, we’d be in a deeper world of hurt than we are right now. The steady progress we’re beginning to see across America would not exist. And neither would the plant that you’re about to build.
(ABC News, May 18, 2010)
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