Posted on 11/07/2014 5:20:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Rush Limbaugh likes to say that when the liberal media says "talk radio," they mean him. Rush's point was perfectly illustrated on today's Morning Joe.
John Heilemann first spoke of "talk radio . . . howling" at Boehner and McConnell not to capitulate to President Obama. Just a moment later, Heilemann made explicitly clear whom he had in mind: "you got to listen to Rush Limbaugh for just one day right now." Then it was Joe Scarborough's turn to fulminate: "I keep hearing Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh." The message that Heilemann and Scarborough had for Republicans was clear: ignore Rush and do deals with President Obama. Specifically on immigration, Scarborough suggested that Republicans not "capitulate" but "work with the president and meet in the middle."
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Weren’t we told to move to the back of the bus when the dems controled the House, Senate and White House? Screw them and compromising with them now that we have the House and Senate.
The GOP’s primary campaign issue was stopping Obama. Voters gave them an overwhelming mandate to do just that and they should ignore the pundits and heed the voters.
You see, Mr Scarborough, this is why you’re the token Republican on a network that no one watches.
I have this perpetual conversation with a liberal friend. He keeps calling for Washington to compromise. I keep telling him that, for compromise to occur, there has to be an overlap of goals.
If I want to get to point A on path 1 and you want to get to point A by path 2, compromise is possible. But freedom and socialism carry no such overlap: I want to get to point A, you want to get to point -A. For situations like that, there can be no compromise.
Thus, the only areas left where politicians compromise is on pork: you vote for mine, I'll vote for yours. It is the worst of times.
As if Obama could work with anybody but the Muslim Brotherhood.
There are no”deals” with the Sultan. A nominal deal is simple acquiescence to the instructions from on high. A deal is when the Republicans agree to pass what the Sultan wants in exchange for the Sultan not simply decreeing it.
No, no- it’s time for Obama to be carted off in a straitjacket.
I would venture to bet $1000 that there virtually a vast majority of Freepers here who are so fed up and angry, that WITHOUT A DOUBT WE DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANY COMPROMISE ON ANYTHING WHEN IT COMES TO WORKING WITH THE DEMOCRATS. THEY PUSHED THROUGH THE NUCLEAR OPTION. IT STAYS ON THE TABLE.
I’d like to see the entire party united with this idea. Seize the moment. Pass the bills the American public wants and let Obama sign them or not.
Ayn Rand:
“In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.”
ExCTCitizen to GOP: Ignore Scarborough...he is a nut...
He’s still useful to those media whores who do the WH biddings. And that’s pretty much “everybody” in that business.
The voters sent the obvious message to Washington, “ We want Republicans to be be squishy!” or “wet” as the English would say. That’s what MSM, most assuredly including Scarborough, would like the world to believe.
200 viewers (give or take a couple hundred) versus 20 million listeners. You do the math.
Mika has his doo-dads in an empty foie gras jar in her lock box.
The only “deal” with Clown Prince nobola should be on determining how much prison time he will serve before being exiled.
“If the voters wanted people to work with the president, they’d have voted in more democrats.”
DING, DING, DING!! No more calls. We have a winner!
Doesn't Scarborough have another dead intern chick in his office to deal with?
Hey Joe!
When your audience reaches 1% of Rush’s audience, perhaps you’ll have some influence.
Scarborough, Heilemann to GOP: Ignore Rush, Do Deals With Obama
There are no deals necessary. You control the House and Senate. Write the legislation you want, pass it in the House and Senate and send to to Obama to be signed, If he doesn’t sign it then that is on him!
Ronald Reagan on the subject of compromise:
“When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn’t like it.
“Compromise” was a dirty word to them and they wouldn’t face the fact that we couldn’t get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don’t get it all, some said, don’t take anything.
“I’d learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: ‘I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.’
“If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.
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