Uncompromising Conservatives Blast Obama For Failure To Act In Bipartisan Fashion
For the past two months, President Obama has bent over backwards to act in a bipartisan manner to solicit Republican support for an economic recovery package. “The monopoly on good ideas does not belong to a single party,” Obama told Republican and Democratic leaders in a closed-door meeting before his inaugration. “If it’s a good idea, we will consider it.”
True to his word, Obama has gone to great lengths to demonstrate his commitment to bipartisanship:
– He attended a House GOP conference meeting to make an in-person appeal, “an exceptional gesture for any president.”
– He then joined a Senate Republican luncheon, spending “two hours and 37 minutes at the Capitol entirely with Republicans.”
– He hosted an inauguration dinner in honor of his Republican opponent John McCain. Obama also invited Republican and Democratic lawmakers to a White House “happy hour” after the House vote on the stimulus.
– He scheduled numerous White House meetings, including “one-on-one meetings” with GOP centrists in the Oval Office.
– Rahm Emanuel “invited a group of moderate Republicans to a private White House meeting.”
– Obama even welcomed a bipartisan group to the White House to watch the Super Bowl.
Obama’s actions were more than mere symbolic gestures. He introduced a package with over $300 billion in tax cuts to win conservative support. To win House GOP support, he responded to their concerns by stripping a sensible family planning provision and a jobs-creating provision to restore the National Mall. To win Senate GOP support, the White House and Democratic leaders accepted Republican amendments to the bill, including three amendments offered by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
According to a CBS poll, 81% of the public understands Obama “is trying to work with Republicans in Congress in order to get things done.” Nevertheless, many conservatives refuse to appreciate the efforts. On the Sunday shows yesterday, a host of right-wing Republicans took to the air waves to blast President Obama for not achieving bipartisan consensus on the economic recovery package.
ENSIGN: We should have put the best ideas on the table. This was one-party rule.
CORNYN: This is hardly a bipartisan effort. I think it’s a disappointment, it surely must be for President Obama.
McCAIN: This agreement is not bipartisan.
GINGRICH: The result has been a very partisan process.
Watch it:
While conservatives in the House and Senate engage in pure political theater, Obama has decided to go around them, appealing directly to the American public. Obama will visit Indiana today and Florida tomorrow to rally support for the recovery package.
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The Limbaugh/Palin Party dictionary defines “bipartisan” thusly, sometimes and adjective and sometimes an adverb which directs an activity in the following manner–Our Way or No Way!!
February 9th, 2009 at 10:24 amrepublican approval rating in congress is lower than bush’s……keep it up ole boys, the cat’s out of the bag.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:24 amGreedy
Obstructionist
Pigs
America will remember you. We’re just 21 months from the next election, and we will not forget your anti-American ways.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:25 amObstruct at your own risk, Repukicons, your day is over.
GINGRICH: The result has been a very partisan process.
On the Republican side only, yes it has…
February 9th, 2009 at 10:25 amRepublicans define words any way they want to. In this case bipartisan means “thinking only of what will help Republicans win elections, up and including harming the well being of the nation for political advantage.”
Shameful.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:25 amDamn you, Dr. Hussein Matt, and your flying fingers. (shaking fist, vigorously) You got my idea out before I did. You’ll pay for that!! (sorry, too much Colbert Report)
February 9th, 2009 at 10:26 amLet’s take a look at history shall we……
February 9th, 2009 at 10:26 amhttp://articles.latimes.com/2001/may/18/news/mn-65086
If that’s how the GOP feels, let’s make their fiction become reality. I, for one, would welcome scrapping the majority of tax cuts for some actual stimulus spending. If they want to cry, give them something to cry about.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:28 amBipartisan my left nut. Someone needs to remind these stooges that they lost the election. We’ve considered their ideas over the last 8 years, and have decided that we as a country are through with failures, including the republican’t party.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:28 amENSIGN: ” …This was one-party rule….”
He didn’t complain so much when the ‘publicans had it all….
February 9th, 2009 at 10:29 amFred Says: republican approval rating in congress is lower than bush’s……keep it up ole boys, the cat’s out of the bag.
I’m glad to hear that. Living in the South, it isn’t always apparent. The people who are still blaming Clinton for everything while ignoring that Republicans have been in control for 20 of the last 28 years therefore the mess has to be their fault are frustrating. Facts and reality just seem invisible to them…
February 9th, 2009 at 10:29 am67 percent of Americans approve of how President Obama “has handled the government’s efforts to pass an economic stimulus bill,” according to a new Gallup poll. Forty-eight percent approve of how congressional Democrats have acted while only 31 percent approve the performance by congressional Republicans. Fifty-eight percent disapprove of the GOP’s actions.
But they are soooooooo confident that they are on their way to a GOP renewal. I’ve been hearing many in the media announce “THE GOP HAS FOUND ITS VOICE“, well the GOP had better hope that in the process of FINDING THEIR VOICE they don’t FIND THEMSELVES in an unemployment line after mid-term elections next year.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:29 ambetter late than never, i guess, but obama should’ve been
making the rounds to the people instead of trying to court
the obstructionist rushpublicons…
lesson learned.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:31 amGood morning, campers.
Just like it takes two to fight, it takes two to be bipartisan. The Rethuglic party under their de facto fuhrer, Blush Limpdick have stated their goal: They hope that Obama, and thus, America fails.
The Rethugs have NO interest in cooperation with the other side unless they get to write ALL the rules.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:32 amNot much to add to this.
Nailed it, Dr. Matt.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:33 amWhat’s most Ironic I guess is that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the GOP has slowly morphed into an imitation of it’s old nemesis. Really, putting party first and demanding unblinking 100% loyalty, all the while being willing to compromise any ideal for political advantage are classic elements of the old Communist Party. The sheer Orwellian double speak they’re spewing now- basically “we will never work across the aisle because we calculate there is an advantage to instead falsely complain the other side isn’t bipartisan” is standard issue these days. What’s new is to see Limbaugh and his GOP dittoheads gleefully hope the country suffers massively so that they can profit off the resulting discontent.
Carpetbaggers is too kind.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:33 amstormkrow want to pretend that the recession in 2001 was as bad as what we face now.
he also want to pretend that everyone should think that the gop has a working solution……
news flash crowfeet, the stimulus in 2001 that bush pushed for and got was tax cuts for the rich and it failed, miserably.
You just keep living in that bubble, we intend to bust it for ya……
February 9th, 2009 at 10:34 amMethinks the GOOP would make a good group study for narcissistic personality disorder. Any up and coming psychoproctologists out there need a topic for your dissertation?
February 9th, 2009 at 10:36 amGoppers are liars. They never tell the truth. They are dishonest thugs and have to lie because the truth would sink them in a heartbeat. I am sick of the lies and the American people are sick of the lies and that is why the GOP is fading into the sunset. They have nothing constructive to offer, just lies about failed philosophy.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:37 amAll this crap will end when we are able to get any balance in the media coverage…At present our media is still held in the grip of evil’s like limpdick, o’lilie, rover. and the newt..What’s with that.? The change we need is to force the media to equal coverage and kick these asses off the air way’s…..Blessings
February 9th, 2009 at 10:39 amRepublicans in Congress Less Popular Than Bush
February 9th, 2009 at 10:39 amI’m so happy that we have a President who is clear-headed, even-handed, and pragmatic. The stark contrast between Obama and the Congressional Repugs shows just how loony and out-of-touch the GOP is.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:40 amObama gave the rope to the Rushpublicans and they promptly hung themselves
Now they can be ignored while we get to work restoring America
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(yes that’s me on the piano)
Find us at ReverbNation.com/ere
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Must be good Koolaid.
(With apologies to George Carlin, RIP.)
February 9th, 2009 at 10:41 amThe Republic of Stupidity Says:
Any up and coming psychoproctologists out there need a topic for your dissertation?
Psychoproctology is a fairly new medical discipline, but reported cases have increased dramatically since 2000. Also known as ‘electile dysfunction’, this malady is commonly found among Republicans.
Most cases can be identified by said Republican moving around in public places with it’s head firmly implanted up it’s ass.
If you, as a Progressive, intend to ‘lend a helping hand’, please be careful where you put said hand…
February 9th, 2009 at 10:43 amI can’t agree more with what No. 21, Witch1 had to say.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:43 amOnce again grasping the obvious let me offer that most of these people in this government do not work for us and need to be sent down the road asap.
fergus, excellent channeling of Colbert.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:45 amThis coming from the, “you’re either with us or against us”, gang.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:46 amI just wrote to my Republican senator and asked that he support President Obama’s the recovery package.
You can find a list of your senators here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
February 9th, 2009 at 10:47 amThe Republicans are trying to frame the debate – again.
The Republicans are trying to define the language – again.
We need to frame the debate – now!
We need to define the language – now!
Obama invited the Republicans to the table. But he, by virtue of the vote of “we, the people” owns the table. He invited the Republicans to assist in the process of responding to this economic crisis. Obama did not offer to hand the table back to them, which he should not as this would be in defiance of the will of “we, the people”. The Republicans are being oppositional/defiant children.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:48 amWith only 2 or 3 members of their party supporting this they’re claiming to be acting in a bipartisan fashion. They have almost two years until the next election and they can’t stop politicking for a moment. Pathetic, egocentric jerks. Party over country always.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:48 amUnbelievable, this is the BIGGEST slap in the face the GOP could ever give Barack Obama. Fortunately, recent polling shows the American people aren’t buying the GOP’s claims.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/114202/Obama-Upper-Hand-Stimulus-Fight.aspx
If the public continue to support Obama as he tackles situations like this, the GOP will be digging its own grave.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:49 amI say I must agree with the fine Senator from Nevada, Sen Ensign.
He said:
And I couldn’t agree more. The Republicans put tons of ideas on the table, and they were all horrible politicial gambits, like 100% tax cuts of around $3.4 TRILLION. These were all put on the table and voted for as amendments to the bill in the Senate, most of them failed. If the GOP had wanted to be constructive they could have put out good and reasonable amendments and some of them would have gotten passed. Instead the GOP did not put the best ideas on the table, and for that the country is worse off. Thanks GOP!
February 9th, 2009 at 10:50 amFred, either you or I misread stormkrow’s intention in posting the link to the NYT story.
I saw an article that detailed the way Republicans steamrolled Democratic opposition to a $1.3 trillion tax cut package:
The Senate opened debate Thursday on the proposed $1.35-trillion, 11-year tax cut with a show of strength for President Bush’s allies, as GOP leaders beat back Democratic efforts to whittle away at the bill’s benefits for upper-income taxpayers.
What did you see?
February 9th, 2009 at 10:54 amThe big problem with the notion of bipartisanship or postpartisanship is that it requires that both parties are working toward the same fundamental goals. In today’s America the Democratic party is working on solutions for the many problems facing this country. The Republicans are working on gutting the government and lining their pocketbooks. Until the Republicans decide to work for America again rather than rooting for its failure, there will be no meaningful compromise.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:58 amActually, they are slapping their own faces……
They are testing the water to see if they still have any power. They are finding that they do not.
Let them greive for a while until they can accept the realities of what they have done to themselves……
Punishing America with their petty power play has been very revealing on top of everything else America has come to know about the gop……heh.
the spotlight didn’t work for them when they were in power and it won’t work for them now.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:58 amHere’s a suggestion -
PHUCK THE REPUBLICANS!!!
They are roadkill…ignore them…they have no intension of cooperating on anything…they want you to fail…they want America to fail…so they can get elected…and fail again.
February 9th, 2009 at 10:59 amThanks for the link Fred!
February 9th, 2009 at 10:59 amMaybe I did get the wrong message……his post was a little cryptic and left interpretation up to the reader but I saw it as an endictment of democrats for criticizing republicans for obstructing this bill, using the example and implying that dems had done the same thing with bush’s so called stimulous plan.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:01 amI could see your point, Fred. It is a bit of an ink blot, init?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:03 amfletc3her Says:
The big problem with the notion of bipartisanship or postpartisanship is that it requires that both parties are working toward the same fundamental goals.
Well put. The GOP – in one of the most damning pieces of evidence regarding their lunacy – play craven political ploys to stay in the government that they attempt to demonize AS they run for it. They aren’t interested in anything other than maintaining power and lining their own pockets.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:05 amObama has done everything but kiss their backsides, and they are complaining??! Dare I ask you how they acted when they were rubber stamping every darn thing that Bush-Cheney wanted?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:13 amI truly believe that their partisonship is hurting the country.
The last eight years have taught us that today’s Republicans are partisan to the point of treason.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:17 amAre the republicans going to continually present examples of how much they hate this country and the people of this country UNTIL they are relegated to the wastebin of history?? Is that their ultimate goal, so that they can then wallow in self-pity and delusional fantasies of martyrdom?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:17 amAt the rate the ‘Publicans are adding millstones to their collective necklace, it will be a one party system in November of 2010.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:19 amYeah, but they can’t keep up this pace, can they?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:22 amralph the wonder llama Says: “Yeah, but they can’t keep up this pace, can they?”
They have Flushwad around their necks, what more do they need, eh?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:25 amFrom Wikipedia: “By the time of the Renaissance, the word “publican” meant a tavernkeeper (the licensed landlord of a public house), and by extension a slang term for a pimp.”
Alt version:
But– but– but — they’ve got a black guy!
February 9th, 2009 at 11:25 amralph the wonder llama Says: “But– but– but — they’ve got a black guy!”
You mean Steele?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:32 amLOL
He’s not going to last very long, then the ‘Publicans can officially elect Limpwad as their Dear Leader.
LOL
ENSIGN: We should have put the best ideas on the table. This was one-party rule.
Is that anything like the one-party rule of the Republicant’s for the last 8 years?
The Republicant’s version of bipartisanship seems to be that because they got 47% of the vote, they think they should have 47% of the say in this bill. Someone needs to stand up to these a$$hats and ask them if they gave the Democrats 49% of the say for the last 8 years. And if not, then why should we give that to them now?
February 9th, 2009 at 11:45 am“The monopoly on good ideas does not belong to a single party,” Obama told Republican and Democratic leaders in a closed-door meeting before his inaugration. “If it’s a good idea, we will consider it.”
Republicans simply refuse to accept the fact that their ideas are not the good ones the president promised to consider. And because they’re the party of “I’m Not Responsible”, they fail to see how their policies led to this economic crisis in the first place.
The fact is that Republicans only want to make this problem worse, and for their own plitical gain. And since the final bill, not matter what is in it, will not get a single Republican vote, it makes absolutely no sense to capitulate to them and put anything in it that they want. All you end up with is a bill that doesn’t do as much as needs to be done.
February 9th, 2009 at 11:50 amThese obstructionist Republicans never give in do they? I mean, the only part of getting this bill completed and acceptable has been whether ANY of the republicans will ultimately vote positively for it — this inspite of having MANY of their amendments accepted and included in the bill. Given this latest fact, I do not understand how they can consider this effort not to be bi-partisan, aside from the usual whining, whinging, basically factless partisan comments being made by the same small cadre of Republicans. And all of this without any concern of the USA as a whole. When the President reminds them that yes “he won”, he was not giving them one of you-know-who’s Mission Accomplishment statements, I believe President Obama was saying look, the November vote has told us that America wants to go a different direction, so let’s get on with it. Instead this same small vocal group has turned to Rush Limbaugh — Mr I Hope Obama Fails — for direction and continue their alligator tears every time things do not go their way. Grow up and let’s get on with governing America, we’re rapidly evolving into a very inconsequential country!
February 9th, 2009 at 12:04 pmI think they might have actually gotten some sympathy if they actually proposed something for this package that clearly would have helped. They’ve not really explained why what they want would be beneficial to anyone suffering now.
Instead they’ve spent 99% of their time complaining how they’re not involved. From most perspectives, they’re like a group of petulant children who are simply choosing to not work together, rather than being purposely left out.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pmNevar Says:
From Wikipedia: “By the time of the Renaissance, the word “publican” meant a tavernkeeper (the licensed landlord of a public house), and by extension a slang term for a pimp.”
So, “republicans” must be people trying to have you get screwed again?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:05 pmObama did what he said he would do. He opened his doors to them. Sat down with them. Even took stuff out of the bill they objected to.
Everybody saw it.
He’s got Republicans in his Cabinet.
He went to dinner with the rw pundits.
With the ball in thie court, the Republicans did not change one iota. Rush Limbaugh said that he wants Obama to fail, and the Republicans defend and honor him.
Everybody saw that too.
John McCain sounded EXACTLY like the John McCain of the last days of the election. No change.
The problem for the GOP is that, with a docile media, they don’t hear what’s happening. Yes, the media says, it’s a tennis game where the ball is always in Obama’s court. Yes, no Republican votes in the House is Obama’s fault.
They don’t hear it, they don’t see it.
Hoover Republicans under Roosevelt. They might as well be wearing wing collars, spats and waistcoats with dollar signs on them.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pmObama is sounding pretty good in Elkhart at this moment.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:39 pmPeople are supporting him and the stimulus program.
Too bad their representatives don’t listen to them, but listen to what their campaign donors want instead.
Yeah he is Marie taking unscreened questions. So of course one repukian troll wastes everybody’s time asking about the nominations of people who didn’t pay taxes. Like that’s why he flew all the way to Indian. Not to help that 15% of the community out of work but to discuss politics and Hannity.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pmReichwingnuts are lost without lies, wars, and crimes. What we are witnessing is a group of failures trying to cause the other side to fail because they have no ideas. They are miserable failures when in office.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pmGod damn some of these people are infuriating. Can’t they be lined up outside the Capitol, offered a blindfold and a cigarette, and shot? We”ll call it racking one up for ethical cleansing.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:49 pmSooner or later President Obama’s going to figure out he’s being played for a chump. Never before have I seen a President go so far out of his way to bridge the partisan divide. He’s bent over backwards for the republicans. And they spit in his face every time. Look at what they did when he gave them the concessions they wanted in the stimulus bill. All republicans in the House, after getting the reductions and tax cuts they asked for, collectively voted no.
Now after wining and dining them, working with them and stripping down the bill to meet their needs, showing the most bi partisanship ever displayed by an incoming President, they have the gall to turn around and declare him and the bill, partisan.
Hopefully President Obama will figure it out soon and realize that no matter what he does, they’re going to work against it and call him partisan. So he might as well BE partisan, and give them nothing.
If I were him I’d rewrite the bill in the most partisan manner possible, then shove it down their lying, sausage eating throats.
No more mister nice guy.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:56 pmBullsmith Says: Republicans define words any way they want to. In this case bipartisan means “thinking only of what will help Republicans win elections, up and including harming the well being of the nation for political advantage.” Shameful.
Absolutely. What astonishes me is that there are still people in this country who fail to see this arrogant, self-serving obstructionism for what it is.
February 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pmMany years ago, Ann Landers (or maybe it was Dear Abby — I can’t remember which) published a letter from a girl who had a problem with her younger brother. It seemed that the kid brother’s favorite sport was getting his big sister in trouble, so at random times he would scream, “MOM! SHE HIT ME!” The girl, who had done no such thing, would immediately get in trouble with her mother. Ann replied with some stock “grownup” answer about talking calmly about the situation with her mother and trying to get her mother to see her side.
Not too long after that, a teenage girl wrote in and said, “your advice is never going to work. I used to have the exact same problem with my kid brother. Here’s how I solved the problem — whenever he screamed that I hit him, I’d go ahead and hit him. Why not? I was going to get in trouble for hitting him anyway. After awhile, my brother realized that whenever he did this, he’d get punched, and he quit doing it.”
Somehow, I suspect that the teenage girl who wrote in had a more effective plan for dealing with the problem than Ann Landers did. There are times when “grownup” solutions work, and times when they don’t.
The Republicans are basically screaming “PARTISAN! PARTISAN! PARTISAN!” even though the Dems have been the ones reaching across the aisle in a big way. I say that if the Republicans are going to make accusations that aren’t true, then the Dems need to go ahead with whatever they’re being accused of. Let them be partisan. They certainly have nothing to lose now by forging ahead with what’s best for the country. The GOP can either quit sniveling and pouting and board the train, or they can just get left behind on the station platform.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pmFolks, what we need to do is to document clearly and coldly the efforts of the GOP to forestall this stimulus/recovery plan, as well as future efforts by the President and the Democratic Party in Congress. When the mid-term election start to gear-up we will have the ammo we need to defeat many republicants. Onward to a solid Democratic majority in the Senate!
February 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pm#67 Misshusseinmolly – great idea!
February 9th, 2009 at 1:20 pmRepublicans are continuing to show themselves as spiteful, childish obstructionists who care little, if at all, about helping the economy & working Americans. They continue to live in the past, in their own delusional world.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:22 pmBending over backwards isn’t enough for the GOP.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pmThey want him to bend over.
The GOP pisses, moans and groans about Obama not wanting to compromise BUT none of them have the b__ls to make the first move and he has tried. So I say, to h__l with them, do what needs to be done to get America back on it’s feet and worry about these clowns later.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:19 pmSo glad they do not represent me.
Poor, poor, wittle wepubwicans. Want a binky? Your ba-ba?
February 9th, 2009 at 2:26 pmThe U.S. Chamber of Commerce is getting reports from chambers of commerce all across our nation that small to medium-sized businesses are getting hit hard as unemployment levels rise leading to a shrinking customer base and lost revenue, causing many of these small to medium-sized businesses to consider laying off workers, which only leads to worsening unemployment levels, further lost revenue, additional lost customers.
In other words, many Republican-owned private sector businesses are bearing the brunt of the obstructionist actions of the crazed congressional Republicans, which is also causing financial distress states and communities across America.
In targeting public sector jobs (whether held by Republicans, Democrats or Independents being irrelevant), the crazed congressional Republicans are also causing financial distress at many Republican-owned private sector businesses, negatively impacting Republican owners and many Republican workers.
This is why the crazed congressional Republicans (and Rush Limbaugh) are lying when they say that they are only cutting wasteful Democrats-only programs that don’t do anything at all for the crazed congressional Republicans and their constituents.
Sorry. Every cent cut from President Obama’s emergency economic stimulus package by hardcore Republicans and so-called “centrist” Democrats hurts Republicans just as much as these hardcore Republican and so-called “centrist” Democrats are intent upon hurting Democrats or anything “liberal.”
This is what makes these hardcore Republicans and so-called “centrist” Democrats (and Rush Limbaugh) so crazy. They spout off that they are helping Republicans, but their actions indicate otherwise, with their actions actually hurting a whole lot of working Republicans in both the public and private sectors as well as Republican owners across America.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, primarily Republican, finally recognized this, apparently.
February 9th, 2009 at 4:10 pmIt is coming down to the scene at the end of ‘Animal House’ when the new kid is standing in the middle of the street screaming “All is well, remain calm”
Keep screaming, repugs.
February 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pmRepubliCons need to be exterminated, like the rats and roaches, they are.
February 9th, 2009 at 8:24 pmWang111: The “Progressive” party you mention is the holdovers of the “Progressive” party of the 50’s and 60’s, which were Communist, as are the “Progressives” of today. If it weren’t for the GOP, Obama (not legally Black… only 6%) would not be where he is today; a little history for you: http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYK-Why%20MLK%20was%20a%20Republican
Fred (#18, above) could you explain by which mechanism the bush tax cuts caused the economic problems we have today? I’ll give you a bit of news: it goes back to Carter, Clinton, ACORN, Fanny Mae, Freddy Mac, Frank and Dodd. Those are the people that caused this.
Don’t the numbers mean anything to many people here? BHO is going to give tax cuts to 95% of the American people??? …. when 32% don’t pay taxes to begin with? Many of those are going to be illegal (criminal) aliens. He still won’t provide his birth certificate, and threw his paternal grandmother under the bus; she, who has nothing to gain, swore she was there in Mombasa, Kenya, when he was born.
All you people who want “free stuff” promised to you by BHO are on the government “plantation” and you don’t even realize it.
Partisan politics? …. little children who won’t play fair? That’s Reid and Pelosi, who changed the house rules so the center (Republicans) had no say in the house version of the porkulous bill. Why should the Republicans vote for something they know will not work? Government spending didn’t work when FDR did it, and it didn’t work for Japan, either.
Wizard2000: You say that most small and medium business are Republican. If true, then it’s the Republicans in the private sector who provide most of the jobs. Thanks for the compliment! I see much ranting, raving and emotions here, but no facts.
Wang: where are the results from the courts that prove Bush Jr. killed anyone? Where’s your entry of outrage about Chappaquidick Fats (Kennedy) and Mary Joe? Your rant about warrantless surveillance; torture; cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of suspects is pure crap. If you’d do some research, you’d see that the Geneva Convention does not pertain to Al Queda or other terrorist who operate in the same fashion.
Hurricane Katrina? …. racially discriminated against blacks?
80% of the people in New Orleans are black….. what did you think you’d see there …. Asians? I must be missing something here; over 75% of the people at BHO’s coronation were Black, and they got to Washington in two days, yet 200,000 Blacks couldn’t get out of New Orleans in four days, even though Bush told the governor and mayor to evacuate two days BEFORE the hurricane hit?
By the way, I’m 58, Black, and not a Republican.
February 10th, 2009 at 10:08 amMoronoftheroad says: By the way, I’m 58, Black, and not a Republican, but I play one when no one is watching.
February 14th, 2009 at 8:37 pm