Posted on 08/20/2009 7:33:02 PM PDT by NCjim
Where is the barf alert? Obama doesn’t NEED a single republican vote to pass his leftist agenda!
Upchuck alert.
My dog puked too.
I didn’t know Bill Kristol was that powerful.
Anyway, given what the author wrote, a barf alert is necessary. It’s always those evil Republicans.
they need cover
Can he really be that stupid? (rhetorical question only - I know the real answer)
Dream on, Joey baby...
Actually, that's not quite right. We have no animus against Obama personally. But we do want failure. Failure of the leftist agenda to impose socialsm and/or socialist policies, laws, regulations, programs, agencies and bureaucracies. We want socialism to fail. We want the socialism that's already been imposed on us over the past 100 years to be removed, rescinded, repealed and nullified.
Why? Because socialism enslaves those who are productive for the benefit of those who are not. It politicizes that which ought to be private. It makes us wards of the State, instead of masters of the State. It denies us our rightful Liberty, in exchange for miserable equality of shared despair.
A government powerful and intrusive enough to provide for all our needs has no choice but to enslave us. There is no other way to get the work done. The nobles of old knew this—which is why serfdom was invented. We do not wish to be serfs. Our forefathers already shed their blood to free us from that, and we'd really rather not have to do the same thing again.
The message from the Dems to the Republicans has so far been a resounding STFU!
Of course it was all talk. Obama never had the slightest interest in bipartisanship - not that I'd blame him for that, I have no interest in it either - but nevertheless he wanted to use rhetoric of that sort as a weapon against republicans. If the GOP manages to turn around his own rhetoric against him, as the article suggests, that hats off to them for a brilliant political victory.
Bipartisanship has always been a code word for socialism.
Well we wanted Communism to fail and, at least in the Soviet Union, it did. As to Obama seeking consensus that is just laughable. The Salon people should have a talk with their friend Nancy to learn how much consensus building has been going on in the House. The short answer is NONE as I'm sure Nancy would confirm. In the Senate there are three, count-em, three Republican senators on one committee trying to pound a little sense into their Dem comrades. That is just for show and always has been. The reason: The Dems want the Government Option. It is their Holy Grail and the path they see to building their power in order to retain control of the U.S. government indefinitely. They will stop and nothing in their drive to achieve that goal.
Republican cooperation in such a venture would border on treason.
And as to Obama looking weak. Of course he looks weak. He is weak and always has been. No surprise there.
Bipartisanship (v)act of kissing liberal ***
If 2 RINO’s vote for this abomination, BIPARTISAN SUPPORT will be shouted from every network and newsroom. I’m still expecting some of the 9 RINO’s to actually vote for this MARXIST Debacle!
Someone needs to exchange the words “democrat” and “republican” and send this piece as a memo to the RNC.
When the Republicans on the committees involved with health care reform and the bailouts complained about being shut out and not allowed to give amendments, Obams's reply to the complaints was as follows,"WE WON."
He showed the true spirit of bipartisanship!!! /sarcasm,
The way libs keep deliberately, calculatedly misquoting Rush Limbaugh makes me sick.
Conason remains stuck on stupid.
These people are unbelievable. They have a 38-seat majority in the House. They have a filibuster-proof Senate. They have the White House, and they just put a far-lefty on the Supreme Court. And it is the mean old Republicans preventing them from accomplishing anything! I guess all the remaining Republicans should simply resign their Senate and House seats and we should just fill them with lefty-dems. Just think how much they could accomplish then!
I tend to agree with Mr Conason.
After the generous bipartisanship of the last six years the Republicans owe Obama a genuine attempt to find the middle ground solutions which he so strongly seeks.
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