Jeanne Shaheen The Aisle-Crossing Machine (Take 2) - Granite Grok

Jeanne Shaheen The Aisle-Crossing Machine (Take 2)

Liberal Democrat Jeanne Shaheen sold herself as this reach across the aisle role-model, as if she had a chronic case of whatever the OCD equivalent of bipartisanship might be.  The truth was far different.  She backed president Obama’s agenda 99% of the time which makes her a good Democrat, a liar (sorry, that’s redundant), and lucky all at the same.

Having won re-election when most of her soon to be former Democrat Colleagues suffered might suggest to Jeanne that continuing to do the Obama version of the hokey-pokey is still a dance worth doing.

“You put your left hand in, you chop their right hand off, You grab their bloody stump and you drag their ass across…(to your side of the aisle)”

That’s “Obama bi-partisan,” and Shaheen is Obama’s 99%.  She may not feel any reason to change.  But that might not be the best course of action for one of the few Democrats still left standing on ‘the island’ after Tuesday November 4th.

As a federal candidate who claims to represent the voters (in New Hampshire?) she may wan to note that other than her buddy Mags Hassan’s shared portion of New Hampshire’s executive branch, the voters put Republicans in charge of the Executive Council, State House, and State Senate.  This message suggests that now might be  good time to realize that “reaching across the aisle” means something more than grabbing a bag of nuts from your staffer in first class on the way to a Democrat fundraiser and another course of grass fed beef from Billionaire Tom Steyer’s private cattle ranch.

Reaching across the aisle is not a one way street, though for the next two years it should be.  Reid’ rules, which Shaheen did not oppose, must be applied to the new Senate for some number of years as I’ve said here and here.

So now is the time.  If Jeanne wants to get her average in line with her rhetoric, she is going to need to take up residence as a temporary Republicans for at least half of her next term.  If she’d like to embrace some poetic irony, she’ll have to be more Republican than Scott Brown, lest she continue to be painted as an Obama shill, and a fraud–assuming she isn’t indicted for something which would make her all that and a bag of dirty chips.  That or continue to be painted as a Reid-Obstructionist as the Republican Senate clears off Harry’s old desk and starts passing bills to Obama on things like budgets from the House, immigration, transportation, and the entire list of things Democrats blocked to protect the fool across from the hill–the guy currently making plans for his Hawaii vacation in a few weeks, because that’s one of the few things he is any good at.

She won’t do it.  I know that.  But that is precisely why I’m saying she should.  because she wont.

She is a hypocrite and a fraud, and she destroyed health care in New Hampshire –twice.  May the next few years cement this in the minds of voters.

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