Posted on 11/09/2012 7:24:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Based on the dismal state of the union and after four years of doing exactly what Rush Limbaugh said he hoped that he would do, by any thinking person's standards President Barack Obama has indeed "failed." Yet, despite the catastrophe, on Election Day the American people inexplicably invited the President to spend the next four years beating the dead horse that he killed during his first term.
The next day, after being MIA for months, Speaker of the House John Boehner crawled out of the tanning bed long enough to publicly assure the President that House Republicans plan to work with him on his sole first-term accomplishment - the looming "fiscal cliff."
Wait a minute, wasn't it way back in 2008 that Barack Obama told America that "this is the moment" when good jobs would be provided for the jobless, the rise of the oceans would slow, and the planet would begin to heal? Why then, as America drowns in an ocean of debt and sinks in a sea of unemployment, would the Speaker of the House tell Obama "This is your moment...we want you to succeed?"
SNIP SNIP
if Boehner believes that this is truly Barack Obama's "moment," why not just let the President do whatever he wants? Republicans in Congress should politely step aside and allow Obama to finish what he started. In so doing, they will inoculate themselves against any ensuing liability as well as avoid becoming the object of Obama's notorious blame game.
And so, as conciliatory bipartisanship is cultivated and John Boehner encourages Barack Obama to forge ahead, one can only hope that the newfound collegiality in Washington DC includes Republicans helping our determined liberal leader to aim that big ole' policy gun he has pointed at America's head downward toward his own foot.
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My husband and I were just stating that very same thing. Call a press conference on the steps of the Capitol and announce that for the next 2 years, the Republicans will sign off on everything the President wants. Then we will see what the country thinks.
Good point, even if the GOP does back away and gives this administrationa completely free hand we still have to depend upon the MSM to report it that way.
And they won't.
There is no good outcome here.
Boehner makes George McClellan look decisive by comparison.
Time to get a new general.
One FReeper in another thread addressed this quite well... he/she said to stand aside and let Obama have his tax-and-spend agenda, all the while loudly reminding voters they are getting out of the way of what is apparently the will of the people... open the path to the vote, then abstain.
A FReeper posted something yesterday to the effect that they’d “never seen blasphemy on a national scale,” but on election night, it was a repudiation of Christianity in a way never before seen in the history of man.
If Christianity isn’t forced into a back room over the rise of Islam in the next 4 years, I’ll be VERY surprised.
Don't kid yourself: they most certainly WILL find a way to pin it on Republicans. How many times did they cite 'the failed policies of the past', without ever once stating exactly which GOP policy was a failure? And don't think for a minute that the 'Blame Bush' strategy is going away, or that the DBM won't continue to circle the wagons for their messiah.
This is going to be a LONG 4 years.
Leap Headlong off the Cliff and let Em Have it....
I am starting to like that idea.
Yep. The GOP will get blamed for whatever happens and the Dems will continue to claim that we’re only one more tax increase away from recovery. California is a perfect example of this. One party rule and the taxes keep coming - no blowback on the Dems. Just endless taxes and spending.
I’ve been telling my friends and family the same thing.
Mitt Romney should call a press conference (since that will draw the biggest audience) and announce on live TV that the GOP has decided to step aside and allow the Democrats to implement any policy they choose “in the spirit of bipartisanship”.
Make sure the Dems embrace this happy news and watch as things spiral out of control quickly.
The GOP should offer NO ideas and contributions. Just vote “present”.
After all, that is all the current guy had to do to be POTUS for 8 years!
My tagline...
I am not sure that I agree with this tactic, but if we are going that way:
DO NOT sign off on anything.
As stated above, go on vacation, vote present, sit on you hands....but do not agree. Just let it happen.
Voting with obumbler will just give him protection from blame for the results.
Yes, get out of the way in exchange for one compromise: the tax hikes are on everyone, not just the rich. Let ALL the Bush tax cuts expire. Let all these idiots that voted for Obama and are eking out a living with $500 paychecks try to eke one out with $400 paychecks so they can see all this free stuff isn’t actually free. Until there is a popular uprising, the spending programs and expansion of government will never end. Taking money out of these people’s pockets might make them rethink the function of government.
Unfortunately, there is no “stepping aside”. The House must vote, thereby the media complex will inform the stupid 51% that the deal is bipartisan.
REPUBLICANS WILL GET BLAMED NO MATTER WHAT. “They did not give the President all he needed. They fought him. They did not agree to .....you name it.
TIME FOR THE NUCLEAR OPTION:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044199838345461.html
That will work.
Apparently you didn't hear what Obama said to the UN. Islam is now America's official state religion. Next up, the jizya. Then the public beheadings.
How would this be any different from what the Republicans have done since 1989?
I also agree with this position, except with 2nd Amendment issues. That must be the impenetrable ‘firewall’.
More than that, insist on a 75% bracket for ‘millionaires’ who earn in excess of $250k. The libs will have their punishment tax, the producers will relocate to New Zealand and obama will be straddling a big pile of squat.
“Wrong. As long as the MSM remains in its current form (which has been unaltered in the past four years, btw), the Republicans and conservatives will be blamed for the failures of the Democratic White House and Senate.
The truth only matters if the MSM reports it. “
Not true. The media wants tax hikes and expansion of government. They will be more than giddy to credit Obama for the achievement. The shit hitting the fan will be the effect, but the media won’t have the patience to wait for it to hit the fan before crediting Obama.
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