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?"
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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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I agree with this strategy. Don't vote No, use Obama's trick and just vote Present. The Dems can't say Republicans voted against Obama's agenda - they just didn't vote for it. Let the Dems know that it's all on them. The Dems will be begging the Republicans to vote yea or nay, but they need to stay strong and just say, "Nope! We want no part of it."
The GOP will get blamed for everything anyway, so what’s the point?
If they were smart, (yeah, yeah, I know) they’d be in front of the TV camera every week w/ “Where’s the budget”, “This weeks unemployment figures”, “Household income is down..”
Lay the flaming pile of dog-squeeze @ 1600 P. Ave.
Republicans are getting so set up. They are going to get tax increases and a bad ecomony hanged around their necks.
They will also get amnesty hanged around their necks.
When people see how bad it is, dems will claim, “hey, they voted for it”!
I say when it comes up for a vote, Republicans should just walk out en masse, hey Rats, you own it now.
“Present” votes would be a jab at 0bama.
You are right. This would be the only way to do it.
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