Posted on 02/13/2010 11:28:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Barack Obama dropped by the White House press room the other day to stick it to the Republicans in the name of comity and fellowship. He offered to cooperate with the Republicans in the Mafia spirit of making an "offer you can't refuse."
"I'm willing to move off some of the preferences of my party in order to meet them halfway," he told the reporters, "but there's got to be some give from their side as well. I also won't hesitate to condemn what I consider obstinacy."
The only way Republicans can demonstrate their lack of obstinacy, the president made clear, is to adopt the Democratic agenda and to tug a forelock and do it now. "Bipartisanship cannot mean that Democrats give up everything they believe in ... and then we have bipartisanship. That's not how it works in any realm of life." Then, stepping behind his wife's fashionable skirt, he tried a little domestic jest: "That's certainly not how it works in my marriage with Michelle, though I usually give in most of the time." Hint to Republicans: he'll play the wife, and you be the henpecked husband.
His hope, said the man whose election was some of the greatest orchestrated theater since Sarah Bernhardt's annual final goodbye tour, "is that this doesn't become political theater." Mr. Obama, smartest guy ever though he may be, hasn't learned what any old vaudeville ham could have told him, that what plays in the opera house in Chicago doesn't necessarily play at the Bijou in Peoria.
Mr. Obama's tough-guy act probably impressed the unforgiving liberals on his left as much as it frightened the Republicans.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I thought that was Bill Clinton's job.
Cheers!
U-G-L-Y
They ain't got no alibi
They's ugly, ugly
Uh Huh, they's ugly.
Republican better just say no to ObamaCare...no...no...no...
When the Kenyan asks for their plan, they should say their plan is to say no.
America will reward them.
Funny, that is exactly what Larry Sinclair said about him too.
Someone in the Republican party needs to point out that there can be no compromise when it comes to the welfare of the American people(aka constituents).
The Democrats are speeding 120 miles and hour down a dead end road that ends in a cliff. Compromising by slowing down to 90 miles an hour still leaves the country going over a cliff, just at a slower pace.
You just can’t compromise with stupid!
They have a plan.
Charles Krauthammer suggested they send only Paul Ryan and be done with it.
So they're basically ADMITTING he was gay? /sarc>
NTTAWTT /trendy comedian mode>
Cheers!
LOL! Wes Pruden is a gem!
They will blow it. They already won and now they will pick Obama up dust him off and give him another chance. Repubs are a bunch of Chumps.
Bipartisanship = Republicans accept the demoRat version of the legislation and betray their constituents.
See John McCain for further clarification.
Great line!
Obama is trying to pretend Scott Brown was not elected -— that the election in Massachusetts never took place.
I wouldn’t cooperate with Obama at all.
The only way Republicans can demonstrate their lack of obstinacy, the president made clear, is to adopt the Democratic agenda.Boy he sure offered a lot of options with that line.High noon time soon.
Sinclair seems more and more credible to me with every day that passes.
“Meeting him halfway” on something we don’t want at all is NOT what I want from my Rep/Senator. STOP him!
Three "I's" and one "my" in this briefly arrogant and "obstinant" statement, from a man whose experience for leadership comes from the streets and back rooms of Chicago.
Hey GOP! 50% of a bad plan is still a bad plan!
Why don’t you say that?
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