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Karl Rove to GOP: No ‘Score -Settling’ With Obama After Midterm Wins
mediaite.com ^ | 10/9/14 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on 10/10/2014 8:57:31 AM PDT by cotton1706

In a new op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist Karl Rove warns the GOP that should they make big gains in the November midterm elections, they should focus on passing legislation rather than “score-settling” with President Barack Obama.

Rove writes that he anticipates Obama to reject bills sent to him from a Republican Congress but that Obama ” deserves the chance to show he’s matured as a leader and has the energy to govern.”

From the op-ed:

Mr. Obama is not the only person who must decide how to proceed. Whatever path the president chooses, Republicans must settle on a course, too. They should understand that, while it is insane to assume good faith from Mr. Obama, they should not make score-settling with the administration their priority.

Voters want Republicans to restrain Mr. Obama from further bad actions and oversee, and in some cases investigate, misdeeds and gross mismanagement. Even more, however, they want Republicans to tackle the problems facing Americans, especially middle-class Americans. This means the GOP should start with measures to strengthen the economy and help job creation.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; defundkarlrove; defundthernc; elections; gope; illegals; massamnesty; rino; tokyorove; uniparty; vichyrepublicans
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To: cotton1706

Pearls of wisdom from Karl: ”[Obama] deserves the chance to show he’s matured as a leader and has the energy to govern.”

You see, Obama’s had six (6) years to accomplish all this, but here, now, with a GOP majority, he will magically bloom and mature, take on the hard reins of leadership, and bring the US, singlehandedly, back to its esteemed position in the world. Leave the golf course, even.


81 posted on 10/10/2014 10:20:44 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA
The level of knowledge, wisdom, or understanding exhibited by Rove in the quotation you cite - "Pearls of wisdom from Karl: '[Obama] deserves the chance to show he’s matured as a leader and has the energy to govern.'”- is sadly lacking in depth and reveals why citizens distrust his influence in their political struggle to restore the Constitution by electing leaders who will honor its limits on what they perceive as their power and "energy to govern"!

With America on the brink losing its status as "the last best hope" in the world for oppressed persons who long for freedom, Rove might do well to consider the words of the Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, who, in his 1801 Inaugural Address--laid out what might be considered to be "qualifications" for the American presidency:

(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;

- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;

- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;

- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter

—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?

- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,

- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.

- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;

- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;

- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;

- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;

- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;

- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;

- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;

- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;

- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;

- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;

- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;

- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;

- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.

These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."


82 posted on 10/10/2014 10:43:36 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: Din Maker

He needs his teeth kicked in.


83 posted on 10/10/2014 10:55:41 AM PDT by tennmountainman (True conservatives don't like being rained on by their own party!)
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To: cotton1706
Or will Mr. Obama try to salvage his presidency by doing what other presidents— Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and the two Bushes—did after electoral setbacks, which was working with the opposition party?

LOL! For Clinton maybe. Not so much for Reagan and the "two Bushes?"

Reagan was tricked into amnesty. The elder Bush was forced to raise taxes, making him a one termer. And the younger Bush worked w Dems so well it resulted into one of the worst financial crises.

Tone deaf.
84 posted on 10/10/2014 11:40:52 AM PDT by nhwingut (This tagline for lease)
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To: cotton1706

I kind of agree with Rove here. Pick an agenda and stick to it. Do not make it personal and don’t be baited into doing so - Obama would love nothing better than to blame his failures on the GOP’s “attacks” on him. The GOP should, instead, adopt policies and proposals that lay out a vision of what the party wants to accomplish that whomever the 2016 nominee will be can ride into the elections on, so that things will actually get changed.

Because there’s zero chance Obama is going to work with the GOP, even to get things he wants. Obama would rather act outside the law through improper executive actions that admit that Congress actually has a say in things. So, just ignore him (as much as he ignores them) and prepare the ground for when he’s gone.


85 posted on 10/10/2014 11:48:45 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: cotton1706

Tokyo Rove is the Soetoro hole of the GOPe. Listening to his BS is suicide.


86 posted on 10/10/2014 1:39:30 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: cotton1706
Obama ” deserves the chance to show he’s matured as a leader and has the energy to govern.”

Madness.


87 posted on 10/10/2014 1:43:10 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: nhwingut

Reagan was tricked into amnesty.

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I don’t know if we’ll ever get the whole truth, but considering that Reagan, with little ceremony, signed the thing one day after the 86 midterms, he had to know it was a stinker.


88 posted on 10/10/2014 1:43:25 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: cotton1706

Will someone shut this guy up!


89 posted on 10/10/2014 1:44:25 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: itsahoot

You beat me to it! (27 posts down)


90 posted on 10/10/2014 1:48:50 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Since when is arrresting criminals “score settling”? RINOs are idiots.


91 posted on 10/11/2014 7:22:05 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: cotton1706
In a new op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Republican strategist Karl Rove warns the GOP that should they make big gains in the November midterm elections, they should focus on passing legislation rather than “score-settling” with President Barack Obama.

Absolutely! When you are a liberal Republican like Karl Rove, you CELEBRATE Barack Obama, and WORK WITH HIM to pass more liberalism!

92 posted on 10/11/2014 7:24:26 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: John O
Rove is a democrat in drag

Remove the words 'in drag' and you will be accurate.

93 posted on 10/11/2014 7:25:32 AM PDT by Lazamataz (First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them. We have no 'news media', only a Soviet Pravda.)
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To: cotton1706

Let’s win first.


94 posted on 10/11/2014 7:32:38 AM PDT by socal_parrot (I hate to say I told you so, but...)
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To: tanknetter

Repealing and defunding the “tax” measure known as aca would certainly do both.


95 posted on 10/11/2014 7:35:01 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: cotton1706

Dear Karl, STFU. Thank you...


96 posted on 10/11/2014 7:37:03 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: John O

97 posted on 10/11/2014 7:42:33 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (GOP = The Whig Party)
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