Dear GOP: What not to do at Obama’s common ground Kabuki theater
So, the newly chastened, humbled, introspective, reflective President Obama will hold hyped-up meetings with GOP and Democrat leaders in a few weeks to show his commitment to Common Ground.
And the MSM will lap it up as evidence of Obama’s post-election maturity.
What a steaming load of you-know-what.
Obama has held plenty of make-believe Kumbaya sessions with Republicans — after which, he turned around and rammed his partisan legislative boondoggles and government expansions down our throats anyway.
Go back and refresh your memories of the blowhard-a-thon at Blair House in February 2010 on Obamacare.
Or the barrel-of-monkeys fiscal responsibility suck-up summit in February 2009:
It was nauseating.
Republicans including John McCain and Eric Cantor joined Democrat tax cheat Charlie Rangel and spendocrat Henry Waxman, along with Obama corrupto-cronies such as the SEIU’s Andy Stern in a boot-licking session with Dear Leader.
He gathered them all in a press conference setting and called on them as if they were journalistic stenographers.
Obama paid lip service to bipartisanship. They paid lip service to bipartisanship. Obama declared the need to fix health care. They declared the need to fix health care. Obama said we had budget problems. They nodded their heads and bemoaned our budget problems.
I have etched in mind one of the most cringe-inducing moments of that summit. It starred House GOP Whip Eric Cantor, who is now in the running for House Majority Leader.
If this is the kind of olive branch-swallowing “leadership” he will bring to the job, God help us all:
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White House says the upcoming session “is not just going to be a photo-op.” We know. It’ll be a four-hour, ego-stroking bull session to boot.
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Have a beer, shake hands, and reassure the president that they will treat him with the same fairness, honesty and transparency that he gave them for the past two years.
Maybe we should issue regular monthly “tap-on-the-shoulder” mail-ins to these “new blood” pols to remind them where they came from and who put them there and who can take it away.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
There is little, if any, common ground. Period.
The socialists want to destroy America.
The conservative traditionalists want to save her.
It’s that simple.
Irreconcilably different worldviews.
All they need to do is smile and say “We won”.
Would it be bad form to remind the President that we won?
Ain’t payback a b****H?
Wasn’t it Dennis Miller who recently said something like, “Payback is a Behar?”
According to Huffpo, Obama don’t need no stinking Congress!
Eric Cantor worries me…
Ronald Camp: I’ll have the plumbing checked immediately, Mr. Ace.
Ace (Cantor) Ventura: See that you do. If I’d been drinking out of the toilet, I might’ve been killed.
A federal agency filed suit on the day after the election to close down a mine in Rand Paul’s state.
Kumbaya or retribution? You make the call.
The GOP picked up 65 seats in the house.
They need to compromise with Bambi the same way a lion compromises with a lamb.
RIP Hope and Change.
Looks like they didn’t get the word.
Hot dog! I hope these meetings get as much done as the Health Care meetings that brought us all together,
Seems so in too many ways. Czars anyone? I believe he’s been overstepping his executive bounds and congress has failed to hold him accountable, only because they both, until the GOP takes control, share the same agenda.
[Ace (Cantor) Ventura, bending over and talking from his behind]
Ace (Cantor) Ventura: Excuse me sir, but do you have a mint? Perhaps some Binaca?
If only we could trust the GOP house leadership to be as tought as nails. All too often they are the first to blink in a staredown.
And “playing nice” with the Dems never, ever, pays off for the GOP. The Dems don’t know nice. They come to a knife fight with a gun. The GOP leadership usually comes with bullets for the Dems to reload.
Dom Kitano: “Are you thinkin’ about us, Frank? You’re fellow dairy farmers? Are you thinkin’ about them?”
Frank Lucas: “I’m thinkin’ about them, Dominic, about as much as they’ve ever thought about me.”
We need to have a couple of our own NBPP actors standing in the hall outside Cantor’s and Boehner’s door with billy club and stiletto, tapping the palm of the hand, occasionally gesturing with two fingers to the eyes and then back at them. “We got our eyes on you dudes. Do what’s right or we will remember come your election day.”
McLame EATS UP all of the attention he gets. it doesn’t matter if it’s for the right reason, or the wrong reason. He just loves to be Recognized as someone IMPORTANT. Reaching across the aisle, etc.
Perfect response to him whenever he brings up the old “cooperation” talking point. Just respond the same way every time…”They will treat him with the same fairness, honesty and transparency that he gave them for the past two years.” That really should shut him up good.
Or, maybe not. He is so delusional, he probably thinks he actually has treated the republicans fairly!!
Gotta love post election contrition!!! If I can recall my active days in the political arena, we used to refer to the statements of BHO and DINGY HARRY as selective memory… Now that the piper has to be paid, nobody wants to rock this baby… The GOP did not work with us, as DINGY HARRY said??? We always invited input from REPUBLICANS, per BHO??? As I heard yesterday from MARK LEVIN, “since when do the victors have to compromise???
I would LOVE to see McConnel and Boehner stand up and tell Der Leeder
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I don’t see much room for “getting along” or for “compromise”. How can a principled conservative agree that abortions can only be done on odd numbered days? Or that 3 Trillion bucks of wasteful spending can be reduced to “only” 1.5 Trillion? After all–this type of thinking would meet the opposition halfway!
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“Lets make a deal” time with taxpayer money needs to be over. Slash and burn–obstruct–and force the liberals / socialists / marxists / communists and their corrupt stooges of both political parties to vote for every C**P SANDWICH they try to cram through.
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There aren’t any prizes for second place in a war. Win it–or die trying. The second strike will happen in the 2012 elections.
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Woman up, conservatives–send Michelle Bachmann to take point. The Fox News Channel, Talk Radio, and the conservative blogs can “out” the socialists now. Most sane people know that the AMERICAN PRAVDA media is carrying water for the enemy.
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John Bibb
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I am convinced that a in a round table debate a person well schooled in the psychology of the narcissist would subtly catch Obama in a non-telepromptered moment and induce in him a display of rage and irrationality that would so exhibit his true self that the watching public would see, once and for all, the “emperor has no clothes” – ew that’s a disgusting thought.
I am afraid we are in for some rough times from our progressive replications in the senate and the house.
The “Blue Dog Replications” have started already. They are demonizing Michelle Bachmann so as to keep her from any leadership position. If I hear the word “compromise” one more time I will be sick. I say no compromise. Tell little bro we won. Now it is our turn to get things done. Ram it down their throats. Watch very closely the folks that are put on the house leadership positions. See if they are serious about small government, lower taxes, etc. I doubt it. Watch Trent Lott, Karl Rove, Romney, Newt G. et al. and tell them to sit down and shut up when they try to destroy what the tea party has built.
Say a prayer for congress and for the American people. We conservatives are going to need all the help we can get.
Anyone remember the round table discussion concerning the Health Care Sham? Hello, Repubs, Hello Repubs -
Some monkeys never learn.
The reality is that they were elected to put the brakes on a runaway train. I hope the show the unity they showed on the Obamacare vote.
If the party that just won the house has its first inclination the desire to compromise, Why elect them in the first place?
If they don’t follow their very clear mandate, they are finished as a national party. Bambi will be able to complete much of his socialist transformation of the United States, and the GOP need not show up for the 2012 election.
Boehner was blinking away crocodile tears on Tuesday and hasn’t stopped blinking since. It won’t be long now before the establishment RINOs turn their guns on us.
On tax increases coming in June:
GOP Do not accept Obama’s definitions:
1. Don’t make the 250K per individual misstatement (I hear over and over again). It is 125K per person (250K per family).
2. 125K is NOT RICH (it is middle class)
3. Don’t accept any MARRIAGE penalty (we have seen a redefinition of marriage, a move to marginalize men in marriage and now a tax penalty for being married).
4. Reject the whole SOAK the RICH scheme.
I tried to elect a constitutional conservative to replace Cantor. Too many nose-holders around here, Floyd Bayne only got 7% of the vote. Some cared more about how much money Cantor could get for VA because he’s in leadership. My question has always been, what kind of leadership has it been?
The McCain Republican kind.
Not the kind I want.
The American people voted to stop the “fundamental transformation” of their country. They don’t want a half communist country.
No Compromise.
No one should be sucked into believing anything that comes out of bho’s mouth. He has said all this “working together” garbage before. What it really means is that when he’s done listening, he will state how things are going to done. Our lying sociopath is totally incapable of “getting it”. That is his biggest weakness and why he will cling to his policies no matter what. When the ship is almost completely sunk, he will still believe what he believes to the very last breath.
Recall in a “Tale of Two Cities” that names were knitted into a fabric. Tea Party types need to do similarly for the politicians that want to smooch across the aisle. That list is the basis of folks to be primary’d out. No more tolerance for the McCain and Hatch types; we are in the mess we are in while it was their watch.
Excellent MSNBC (WTF?) analysis of how the RNC and RSCC shot themselves in the foot, cost the GOP the Senate and how they now have their heals dug in to fight the grassroots.
Not a fan of Cantor, his another Gingrich IMO, we need someone strong, believing in the constitution, like Bachmann.
Nope, lay bills on his desk everyday representing the majority of American people that don’t want to be communists.
Lets hope the overwhelming majority of republicans get the very clear message we’ve sent and start doing the conservative things we’ve sent them there to do. Anything less and I’m afraid you’ll see a third party in 2012. Listening to Graham/Lott type republicans is not an option.
I had to look at the video twice… I thought Cantor was bowing to the “Dear Leader”. When I looked at it a second time he was going to sit down…Or was he?
These so called Young Guns better get this crap right and not fold like a starched shirt in a Chinese Laundry Mat. Remember Young Guns, We the American People have spoken and you better listen.
OT sorta, Oregon has joined Washington and Minnesota by stealing another election here…the governor to be is a two term retread stated on his way out of door 8 years ago “Oregon is ungovernable”. His own admission he was a failure.
Sorry for the rant but this hits people that still have jobs here hard, very hard…more taxes and regulations on the way.
And this article should help “set the right tone” with the Dear Leader.
http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=119078&article=7797170
Update on the Sock Puppet “Mango Lassi”
tour:
US Military to build 1 Kilometer bomb proof tunnel so Fearless leader can visit Gandhi Museum and 34 US Naval Warships to Guard said fearless Leader -
The cost is going up and 2 of my neighbors cannot find a job, anywhere!!
This is straight out of the Third World despot handbook -
The party of “NO” has been given massive support to ramp it up. Now they can be the Party of “H$LL NO”.
Roll it back to ’08 Boehner, 1908.
If Boehner goes wobbly, he might find himself joining Pelosi – without a gavel. He has a short time to prove himself since the libs have already put their spin on the message from the election. bho will rule by executive order.
The GOP failed to win the senate because they chose to protect their old guard rather than support the choices the voters made. Rove can be blamed for sinking Christine and Sharon. These 2 could have won, just as McCain could have won except that the GOP elites had to bash Palin. It is about saving the country,re-instituting the Constitution and enforcing our laws NOT electing the GOP.
Rambler, the one which really peaves me is Miller in Alaska. IF THE GUTLESS RINOS RUNNING THE SENATE HAD TOLD THAT B***H SHE LOST, AND IF SHE RAN AS AN INDEPENDENT SHE COULD RUN ALL THE INDEPENDENT GROUPS IN THE SENATE. BUT SHE LOST ALL HER REPUBLICAN SENIORITY AND BACKING WHEN SHE LOST THE PRIMARY. If she comes back to Washington and continues in the same old fashion with the same old seniority and rino group, I will be furious. Maybe the RNC and RSCC need to understand that when you go to bed with dogs, you will get up with fleas. Some of us don’t sell out our convictions, and we go home with the date we arrived with.
WH just sent word that Obama is now open to extending ALL Bush tax cuts. I am cringing about what Faustian deal the GOP has entered into.
Soap to GOP, RNC…
It’s about the jobs stupid. Shake hands with the “enemy” to your own demise. Pay attention to those of us who lost jobs or lose yours. Got it? Good.
Exactly, Oregon will dig a deeper hole and will start to recover well after the rest of the country. Yippee! More PERS, more entitlements, stronger teachers unions,fewer jobs, and higher state taxes.
I’ve applied for my Oklahoma professional license so I can have it in my pocket when the rest of the collapse comes.
This is interesting now we are post election. Just as the Blue Dogs found out, when you get to Washington, there are deals being made.
I read the book Advise and Consent years ago about the inner workings of DC. A Congress critter kept 2 books. A black book and a blue one. The black one contained the names of people who owed him favors and the blue one was for favors he owed to other people. You vote for this legislation and I’ll vote for yours.
This was on full display during the health care debacle. Oh yeah, and Nancy will allow you to vote no because you have a tough district and she doesn’t need your vote right now. But you owe her. Lots of shows going on.
Caucuses, coalitions, favors, rewards and punishments are all part and parcel of the DC culture. How will these newly minted critters handle that negotiation and the pressure from all the different people? Oh, and did I mention lobbyists? They all need campaign cash. They will become power hungry. Stay tuned.
The only REAL way to compromise is to honor the 10th Amendment. That way conservative states can get conservative government and the lib/leftist states get what they deserve.
Issa agreed not to investigate him in exchange for the tax cuts, Obamacare being gutted and replaced, and a draft pick to be chosen later.
If only.
What do I think of the this “summit” with Obama?
In the words of Tropic Thunder’s Les Grossman….
“We don’t negotiate with terrorists.”
Never believe the GOP leadship is that smart until proven otherwise.
That would be why I closed with “If only”.
I give Phil plenty of grief, but he’s spot on with this. There was some sort of backroom agreement and I feel we’re going to take it the hard way because of how quickly Obama “capitulated”.
There is no trust with Obama. He will lie, and talk out of both sides of his mouth. He is the most ideological liberal President of our time. He has no intention of changing his mind about policy. He can’t as it would go against his principles. If everyone took a principled stand on the issues that they were elected on, we might actually get done what the country wants. He won, now he lost. Who should compromise?
NO COMPROMISE!! WE WON!! We’re going to have to keep reminding the new folks not to accept so much as a stick of gum from the RINOS!
teapartypatriots.org has a list of candidates for House leadership positions which will be filled over the next few days. We can call or email our congresscritters, even the newly elected ones, to let them know who we want to see nominated and elected.
Oh, I agree. And I feel our GOP momentum will be fleeting with the typical suspects putting the kibosh on anything resembling resistance againt Obama’s agenda. If the house really does do anything, we can be sure the RINOs in the senate will sabatoge it.
We shall see if the GOP sees the light, or it’s lights out for the GOP.
The Repubs remind me of “beaten wife” syndrome: the Dems will promise to compromise and get along, and the Repubs will be saddened when they believed what the Dems promised, and are once again sent crying into the closet, having been beaten up again. “Please, don’t leave me – I promise I won’t hit you again. I luv you.” Yeah, right.