Ron Fournier Quotes
The deck is stacked against Obama.
Fournier, Ron. "The deck is stacked against Obama." National Journal, Atlantic Media, 2012.
See Baltasar Gracian {400698}for a similar sentiment.
The Federalists had a majority of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency with George Washington. The establishment of respect for minority views had not yet been established as a tradition. The Anti-Federalists, in order to prevent the Federalists from imposing their own legislation in all fields, used every parliamentary maneuver and delaying tactic. The public, after a few years of the Federalist high-handedness, replaced them with the Jeffersonian Republicans and the Federalists were so badly beaten and unpopular that the party was destroyed, never to rise again.
He was the chairman of the committee and the he had denied the Democrats equal access to witnesses before the meeting in a patently unfair process. When one of the minority members of the committee complained in the open hearing that the process was unfair this was his response. Most majority committee chairmen do not resort to this kind of unfair practice so this was not generally a typical practice but reflected the bitter hyperpartisanship that the House Republicans were engaging in at the time.
Ron Fournier (born 1963) is a business executive and former journalist. Until 2018, he was the publisher and editor of Crain’s Detroit Business. Previously he worked at Atlantic Magazine and the National Journal and as Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press (AP) until leaving in June 2010. He is the president of the public relations and lobbying firm Truscott Rossman.
