’60 Minutes’ Correspondent Laments GOP Opposition to Lame-Duck Legislation
On Thursday's “Morning Joe,” “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl deplored the GOP stiff-arm to Democratic lame-duck legislation, complaining that it wiped out the conciliatory tone of the Republicans' meeting with President Obama. She referred to the GOP strategy as “the maneuvering that I think is such a turnoff.” “If you're up here after the White House meeting saying 'Yes, they can be civil to each other,' and it's just a tone. We know it's a tone. And then it's dashed,” she mourned. “After the meeting with the President, everybody – I think, I think – in the country said this is great, this is what we want, we want that tone,” she gushed of the GOP leadership's meeting with Obama. Stahl then lamented the GOP's ensuing opposition to Democratic legislation until extending the Bush tax cuts is made a top priority.
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