Maddow: Why compromise with GOP 'in hilarious disarray'?

11/25/2008 @ 11:09 am
Filed by David Edwards and Muriel Kane

With a mandate from the voters, Barack Obama would appear to have an open field to put through his own agenda without worrying about the opposition. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, however, is concerned that Obama is too set on finding consensus to take a hard stand on an issue as contentious as war crimes.

"Why is the President-elect with strong majorities in Congress and the Republican party in utter, hilarious disarray, acting already like he has to fear and accommodate the Republicans in order to get anything done?" Maddow wondered on Monday. "While Obama has repeated his stand to close the prison at Guantanamo and reassert American laws against torture, Newsweek and Salon.com both report that now he may not push for prosecutions of Bush officials."