Some B.O. Republicans gush over Obama meeting; Update: Say cheese!
Several Republican House members used Twitter while meeting with President Obama earlier this afternoon to discuss the Generational Theft Act of 2009. For all the buzz about renewed GOP spine, it looks like there were some real bodice-ripping moments. Thrills went up legs. Drool buckets overfloweth. The Hill catalogued a few of the messages:
President Obama won praise from some of the House’s most conservative lawmakers as “engaging” and “respectful” during his meeting with congressional Republicans Tuesday.
Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.) said that Obama was sincere and “impressive” during his meeting with Republicans Tuesday afternoon.
“There’s real desire in this room to figure a way back to prosperity,” Inglis wrote on Twitter. “[The president] and Republicans here [are] expressing deep concern about unemployment.”
“If [the] President carries this on it does open door for a new tone!” Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) exclaimed.
“Sharp differences are muted,” Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) Twittered.
Inglis said that a comment by Obama that he would rather be a one-term president who addressed the economy than a two-term president who did not went particularly well.
“Sharp differences are muted.”
That sums up exactly what is wrong with the D.C. Republican establishment, doesn’t it?
***
Update: Triple-gag alert…
“Nearly as many House Republicans sought to get their photos taken with Obama as questioned him about the stimulus during their meeting.”
See what others have said
Note from Michelle: This section is for comments from michellemalkin.com's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that I agree with or endorse any particular comment just because I let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with my terms of use may lose his or her posting privilege.
Trackbacks
- Fiscal Suicide: #biteme « JoHNBRoDiGaNDoTCoM
- Testing GOP “Leadership” « The Forum
- GOPers Gush Over Obama After Meeting | The American Pundit
- Shut Up Hippy » Blog Archive » Some B.O. Republicans gush over Obama meeting; Update: Say cheese!
- What’s Wrong With the Obama Economic Stimulus? « Peace and Freedom Global Future
- Steynian 317
- The Wide Awake Cafe » Eight Days of Silence
- Steynian 317 « Free Canuckistan!
Comments
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Categories: fiscal stimulus
Legal Insurrection
» Thanks, Global Warming
Stop The ACLU
» Oops! Now New Zealand NIWA Accused Of Faking DataRiehl World View
» Some Thanks From Around The BlogsRiehl World View
» Climate Change: BBC Didn't Hide The Story?Riehl World View
» BBC, KGB, Oh My: More On Climate Change FraudNewsBusters.org
» Climategate: White House Involvement in Scandal Will Make It Harder for MSM to Ignore
Hammer/nail
Nothing else to see here. Move along.
There is a one party system parading as a two party system. The last thing I want are Republicans a-twitter over meeting a Lib, who is already getting enough worship.
Well, sounds like they have given up to the Force. We’re next. Resistance is futile, we will be assimilated.
I was about to post something about full mouths that would have gotten me banned. sigh.
Maybe they were all just taken aback by the fact that he did not:
1) slaughter them while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” or;
2) Make them kiss his ring.
“Sharp differences are muted.”
Yep! Wave the white flag.
chap, sounds like they did number 2 anyway…. Take that any way you want.
And I have a beautiful bridge for sale over the East River in New York.
Not only are “sharp differences muted” I heard it was rumored( I can’t say for certainty) that there is a gag order placed on republicans by their leadership on saying anything negative about Obeyme. This is why I quit the Republican party.
“Omnia relinquit servare republicam”
No, the client needs to print to pf2 using the comma 10cpi option. I didn’t mean pfx,10cpi literaly.
Opps, wrong window, sorry…
They need to see the problems for America, before their own elections. Sadly, that is not going to be easy.
How many of these critters go to Congress paupers, and a few short years later are millionaires.
I guess we should be relieved/disappointed that the other window wasn’t the email you were composing to Penthouse Forums.
What I said in the other window to my boss about this CSR would have got me banned. Fracking idiot.
Allow me:
Dear Economy,
…
They don’t mind kissing his ring – in fact Graham was hoping it was a butt cheek ring.
Sounds like lots of cold showers were needed afterward. Maybe even a hose for some of them.
Not sure if this is a hawaiian thing or not, but keep your perversions to yourself.
Where do you think you hang your towel while you’re at the beach?
So The One publicly rebuked Pelosi and Reid for the rules they are following that are disenfranchising conservatives in the House and Senate? We can now expect that Republicans will have a seat at the table and can substantively participate in crafting or amending legislation? That embedding socialist agenda items and pork in the stimulus plan will be rejected by Obama?
Oh. Nevermind…
Finally something that he and I can agree on.
Now let’s all join hands and sing.
You guys are absolutely clueless. How is crazy deficit stimulus spending going to get us back to prosperity? You have no personal convictions about conservatism or knowledge of how economies work. You may have opinions but apparently no convictions. You will cowtow to this little Chavez and give him the political cover he craves.
When Obama et al finish dragging America into socialist hell, he will be able to say it was a bipartisan effort. I hold Barney Frank and the other congressional Democrats personally responsible for the loss of one third of my retirement and now you want to roll over and give him the rest?
The Democrats just got finished stealing $4 trillion of middle American wealth via the sub-prime boondoggle and you think they need more? Are you insane? Congratulations traitors. Enjoy your payoff. You BO/Vichy Republicans did ask for a payoff right? Or is the personal affront to your manhood payment enough? If I could beat you with a stick, I would.
Liberals are always “respectful” while they bend you over. Only when you resist do the talons come out.
Rush hit the nail on the head yesterday when he defined bipartisanship according to Obama and Pelosi. Bipartisanship to Obama is when there are Republicans at the table in agreement with his plan. Bipartisanship according to Pelosi is when there are Republicans at the table.
Are these Republican politicians as stupid as they appear? It’s too bad we can’t simply send everyone of the worthless slugs back to rocks they crawled from under.
Some morons’ll believe any da** thing, won’t they?
Those are three ugly black men.
I see your wish is coming true – already.
Nope. No. Not ever.
What exactly is wrong with being polite? I expect Republicans to be polite. I expect Democrats to be rowdy and disrespectful.
There is a time and place to pick fights, Pres Obama going to the Hill to state his case and listen to what the loyal opposition had to say, was niether the time or place, to be disrespectful, or to pick a fight.
Good grief! Not more “new tone!” May we dispense with the new tone and go back to shrill, please? There’s not enough Emetrol in 100 pharmacies to quell my wretching.
No, wait. Forget I said ‘please’ and just knock it off, jerks!
The only things left for these SBR’s (Sponge Boy Republicans) to do, is, strip down to their scivvies and wave palm fronds over the BHO to keep the flies off.
Well why don’tcha just go ahead & grease up while yer at it?!
You’ve got to be kidding! Do you really believe he went to the Hill with the willingness to allow conservatives to change his mind? This is why we lose day in and day out. Our reps neither understand our enemy nor grasp the depravity of which they are capable. The whole problem is the repubs no longer pick fights. They just roll over and we get left the excrement sandwich.
It would not hurt my feeling one bit to have an alien spaceship land in dc and haul the ENTIRE bunch off to the planet Quero. Gads, this is beyond belief what is happening to our Republic!
L
This meeting today reminds me of a battle scene in the movie “Braveheart.” Our republican nobles gather an unwilling army on the battlefield and then ride out to barter a deal of lands and titles for themselves. The peasant army is then left with more soil to till under the rule of more powerful masters. We need to be picking fights. We need to be in all out war while flushing the Dems unidirectional brand of bipartisanship. Does unfettered, taxpayer-supported abortions NOT induce a war cry from within you?
Any of them have their fingers crossed?
Just askin’.
…but they are still sharp differences, right Mr. Burgess? Otherwise you have simply given in to the left. Anything to the left of Reagan Conservatism is nothing more than a shade of liberalism.
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they are approvin’,
Keep them RINOs movin’ Sheepledrive!
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just string ‘em up and brand ‘em,
’cause soon we’ll be living on the street.
Boy my brain’s a say’n tempt me’
But my 401k is empty’,
and now I’m a votin’ with my feet
Move ‘em on, head ‘em up,
Head ‘em up, move ‘em out,
Move ‘em on, head ‘em out Sheepledrive!
Set ‘em out, ride ‘em in
Ride ‘em in, let ‘em out,
Cut ‘em out, ride ‘em in Sheepledrive.
Why are these people using Twitter anyway?
Is this middle school civics?
It just kills you that there’s somebody smart in the White House now instead of a stupid republican.
Wait, that’s redundant.
Talons dipped in curare…
More accurate.
It just kills you that there’s somebody
smartineligible in the White House nowor
It just kills you that there’s somebody
smartSocialist in the White House nowor
It just kills you that there’s somebody
smartwrong in the White House nowor
It just kills you that there’s somebody
smartinexperienced in the White House nowSo, yeah.
I think you are assuming that our latest crop of Repub “representatives” are representing anyone’s interests other than their own.
“Sharp differences” don’t even seem to exist in this Congress…so long as everyone gets to sit at the table and gets a photo-op.
Sigh.
I don’t know if he went there to have his mind changed. He went there to listen, and maybe, just maybe he will incorporate a few new ideas. [Note: The condom clause in the bill has been deleted.] So, there is a chance in being heard might result in changes.
Nope. No. Not ever.
Being polite and having good manners is never why we loose.
When did they get their dog? I must have missed it. He’ll be the Smartest one in there.
Time to flush the republican party. Time to start over. What a bunch of chokers.
You could say that again. You could also call the “Republicans” the “slightly-less-liberal half of the bipartisan Party-In-Government” (shortened to the oh-so-apt P-I-G).
One would think that this is first time they ever saw a biracial person in their entire lives. Good grief. Take your pictures, frame them and get back to work!!! Oh wait … that’s what got us in this mess in the first place. Better yet, take a vacation … a long vacation.
On January 27th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, PKAmmoTroop said:
PKAmmoTroup, that was brilliant…RAWHIDE
johnsteele said: (#3)
They may have given up to the Dark Side, but I
shallwill not as the Force is strong in my family.————–
Dexter Alarius said: (#15)
ROTFL. Thank you.
Excellent us of our language the PK, excellent.
Next: Who is the Smart one in the White House; the butler? Telephone operators?
Yes Obama is sharp enough as in the knife in the back.
Despite their fine hunting skills eagles are primarily carrion feeders but do need fresh meat for their young.
yes
That’s not the reason why I suggested we lose. I stated, “We lose because the repubs neither understand their enemies nor grasp their depravity.” I am certainly not suggesting we be boorish and infantile; such as exclaiming, “I won” during a so-called bipartisan meeting. Being polite, professional, and well-mannered is one thing. Being sycophantic, obsequious, and nihilistic toward our own principles, which is how the meeting is described, is another ball of wax!
BO didn’t resist the condom clause because of republican outcry. He resisted it due to opposition within his own party because even they realized it was moronic and wouldn’t fly with the public. If BO wanted real conservative input flowing into his administration, why didn’t he have dinner with real conservatives a week ago instead George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks and their inside-the-beltway ilk? I assure you all of BO’s actions are dog & pony shows meant to placate the opposition and nothing more. I’d challenge you to tell us of one occasion in which he reached across the aisle for a Senate vote. It never happened and we’re suckers to believe that it ever will. KNOW YOUR ENEMY!
What unprincipled invertabrates. The new symbol of the Republican Party should be the earth worm. They are happiest when kept in the dark and fed ……….
Ya think?
eaglehaslanded said:
Nope, Obama isn’t killing me. I made it out of the birth canal, and I’m too big to dump in a soiled linens closet.
Maybe these conservative Republicans are telling the truth. You are happy to believe them when the bash Democrats, but heaven forbid they should say a good word about Obama, then they are fibbing.
…happily whistling and thinking warm fuzzy thoughts as they skip gaily into the rotating blades…
I am sure they are telling the truth. The problem is that they are supposed to be the check on obamas spending. And they seem too busy kissing his ass to do thier jobs.
Oh, I believe them.
I’m sure The Prez was “engaging” and “respectful” and even “impressive”.
I’m sure he also “express(ed) deep concern about unemployment”.
We’re just skeptical that he will actually give any stock to Republican thoughts on the matter. He seems committed to repeating FDR’s mistakes and driving us into deeper recession or depression.
Proof positive we are devoid of Republican leadership in Congress:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18049.html
In all fairness, kissing Obama’s ass is a full-time job, what with the wrestling for room and all.
It’s not personal. It’s business…..
With respect,
Vito Corleone
I meant to say conservative leadership. Republicanism and conservatism are two seperate entities now.
Doesn’t it seem like the Prez has a more contentious relationship with Nancy Peloser than he has with the Republicans? What up?!
On January 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm, eaglehaslanded said:
To be precise: it kills me that there’s a smart collectivist in the White House, as opposed to an inarticulate one that at least was pro-American – which is what we had for the last eight years.
A collectivist of any type is still a monstrous evil. Being smart only means that he’ll be more effective at enslaving us.
Not sure, but if I was Nancy, I’d be VERY careful…
On January 27th, 2009 at 5:38 pm, MtsEdge said:
No, I don’t buy it. Pelosi is simply providing cover for Obama. It’s old-school leninist tactics: always have someone far, far more extreme than you, to make YOU look reasonable. Hire street thug anarchists if you must, so that the “bourgeois” will find you acceptable.
She can propose all sorts of crazy things and be totally safe in her district. She’s the obvious choice.
Note that Harry Reid is more circumspect.
ROTLFLMAO. I can honestly remember in 1977 Democrats saying the same thing contrasting President’s Ford and Carter.
Eagle, you made my day!!
P***ies! Bunch of no b*lls p***ies.
This kind of spineless behavior is the very reason I am p*ssed at what was once a great political party.
My nutless cat has more b*lls than all of the the RINOs in D.C..
Yeah, GW Bush was real dumb…graduated Yale, Harvard, a business man, and was a governor of a state. A heck of a lot more experience than your “community organizer” with less than 2 years experience on a national level.
Yep, we’re screwed for the next 4 years. All we can hope for is a house cleaning in 2010. And it can’t come soon enough with these nutty left wing executive orders Obama has already signed off on to please his dinky small constituency of the George Soros sheep.
Oh, my mistake. When you say ’smart,’ you mean smart relative to Matt Damon and Kelly Bundy.
Makes perfect sense. That would explain how Obama can talk like a conservative and push through legislation like a leftard.
“cunning” is more like it
“It just kills you that there’s somebody smart in the White House now instead of a stupid republican.”
It wouldn’t kill you to leave your comfort zone in mommy and daddys basement and take a look at the real world….You know the one in which Obama is NOT the second coming.
Yesterday, on the sixth day of “his” presidency more than 80 thousand people were told they were going to lose their jobs.
Now, since it happened on “his” watch, then he is responsible for it.
Wasn’t that the logic used on President Bush?
Just saying….
Why don’t eagle and lgm stay and play?
COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!
We have far to many McCains in congress.
I am with Limbaugh and Michelle. I want Obama’s Socialist agenda to fail, fail miserably, and fail utterly.
Capitalism and market driven economics have not failed. Greed, governmental culpability and just plain criminality has succeeded in a vacuum created by our voters.
Add to this a slobbering, infantile, and woefully idiotic media and you have the makings of disaster.
BHO’s monumental arrogance will sink his ship. How can someone trained by the politically corrupt and the criminal elite of Chicago do anything but fail.
The market is busily taking its toll on the MSNBCs , the Olbermanns, the fumbling NYT, the morally corrupt Hollywood.
The criminal conspiracy currently running our government at all levels as aided and abetted by a morally corrupt media will fail. A society capable of murdering 39 million of their own children cannot survive.
PC is Thought Control
LEE
Conservative Republicans (not RINO’s) should be respectful and tactful when dealing with President O’Bummer and his liberal / socialist / marxist minions in congress. No laughing, rolling eyes, etc.
***
Then when the time to vote or to filibuster comes they should act like the Texans did at the Alamo when the General Santa Ana and the Mexican Army showed up within cannon and rifle range of the walls.
***
The Texans lost the battle in the end–after fighting as best they could. They bought enough time for Sam Houston to win the only battle that really counts in a war–the final one.
***
Be really nice–and then cut them off at the knees when the chance occurs!
***
John Bibb
So Obama doesn’t like Rush or Fox News. get ready for the fairness Doctrine. I have never heard a president speak about a radio host or news network ever! What have we gotten ourselves into? Elections do have consequences. I have sent a letter to Mr. Phil Gingrey, a Republican congressman from GA, about his comments on Rush this afternoon. Mr. Gingrey has given the MSM a bite they can use to get the Fairness Doctrine moving. grow a pair GOP and VOTE NO on this crap sandwich ‘The One” is trying to pass. He has the votes, why is he so scared that he has to get GOP involvement. TAX cuts will stimulate the econonmy. Not giving my hard earned money to ACORN or any other leftist organization with their hand out.
Very well, and as much as I dislike parsing this is what you said.
You stated that we ‘lose’ following the first sentence, not the last sentence. Suggesting that the first sentence is the reason for loosing. I accept your clarification.
Exactly, and that is one point I made.
Our principles have been ravaged for the past eight years, and I am glad we are finally getting some ‘religion.’ I am unaware of any description of the meeting other than what MM gave us.
However the condom clause was deleted it was a good thing. My bad for attributing it to Pres Obama. My hope is that more silly things in the bill will also be deleted. Whether it is done by Pres Obama pressuring the House Democrats, in the Senate, or during the conference. The more silliness trimmed, the better.
Not a true change of subject because it does involve meeting people. I am not sure of the reason he met with those people, or the reason he met with liberal journalist the following day. I think it is good form to meet. What is on the agenda and what is said are entirely different things.
I understand that he did work with Sen Lugar on Nuclear Non-proliferation.
Very true. Though I hope you are not suggesting that Pres Obama is the enemy.
yep, we are surely getting hosed…
Well!
Since your kind enough to ask.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hitler and a few other despots were engaging and respectful then look what happened….
Obama has been in the job for one week now. Seems that the biggest item on his agenda has to be restoring confidence in the financial markets.
So far, he has completely failed. Last nights statement regarding the ‘many comming years economic distress’ ranks right up there with Jimmy Carters ‘wear a sweater and sit in the dark’ message.
The Republicans have no reason to attack Obama at this time. They just need let him twist in the wind on his own.
Col Jack Jacobs, advice for new President and his plans on speaking to Iran “Shut up About It”
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/01/julie-kafner-i-fav-col-jack-jacob-this.html
remember the “Stepford wives” a full assimilation of the town – deja vu
I just don’t see evidence we’re getting some “religion.” I have long followed the principle of ignoring what people say and watching what they do. Actions tell us everything. If a wife truly wants to know what her husband thinks of her, she only has to watch his actions and vice versa. The same applies in the Bible, God’s love is a demonstrative love. Everywhere the Bible speaks of God’s love, an action is associated with it. It is never just lip service. We’ve been getting nothing but lip service from the Repubs and the Dems because they think very little of us. The will of the people is disregarded and ignored with a never before seen arrogance and smugness. Absolutely and very definitively I consider BO and the Dems my political enemies. I reside in the camp that chooses NOT to advance the slaughter of children. I hang with the group who chooses not to redistribute the hard-earned wealth of America’s most productive. My team doesn’t denigrate our military and then use them for political expediency. We don’t hold the impoverished in a perpetual cycle of dependency and label it compassion.
How you can read my “day in and day out” comment as commentary to the preceding question is a mystery. It was a leading statement followed by an explanation/exposition.
Make no mistake, BO didn’t go to dinner a week ago or go to the Hill today to have his mind changed. A week ago, he went to dinner in order to win over the “inside the beltway” punditry; a wise divide and conquer strategy. We witnessed the same strategy today. He knows it works. I guess before we can know our enemies, we have to be able to recognize them first!
Conservatives need to divorce permanently from the GOP now! It’s now, or it’s never.
Maybe – which member of Obama’s security team are you talking about?
I say It’s OUR party – send those spineless room temperature IQ RINOs over to the Democrats where they belong
tiredofit08 said (#85):
Oy! (as they say where I live) An engaging conservative (Reagan, for example) is good. An engaging liberal is Hitler.
I don’t believe the repubs can attack (launch an offensive). To do so requires a plan, and they have none. The repubs could, however, maintain a defensive strategy, but we’re not even witnessing that much. Granted, the voters decided the repubs defensive strength in November, however, attending a vital meeting and fawning all over the man as though he is the Incarnate Christ demonstrates only weakness to the opposition. BO doesn’t want to fight them, he wants to win them over and he’s succeeding because of their ignorance. The repubs never acted as though they were the majority years ago when the victory was theirs so it only stands to reason they’ll be even more slavish now.
Republicans in Washington are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
On a slightly off topic: why has there been no discussion or thread about BHo’s first interview as Prez going to El Arabiya where he outs his family’s Islamic line?
Hmmm.
Fear not though about all the BHo brouhaha and the economic stimulus….. we will get hit so hard by the IslamoNazi Jew Killers that all of this fighting over deck chairs on the Titanic will seem completely irrelevant to the love-ga-ga masses who are persuaded by this Muslim Devil in a suit.
Bear1909 out.
They better get ‘em back before they lose their place at the dinner table.