_____ the Republicans. Since when have they given a rat’s ___ about “reaching out” to the Dems? They wouldn’t reach out to moderates in their own party. They drove out the moderates, let the crazies take over, and now are a regional party with nutjob radio shock jocks as their spokesmen.

But to Cynthia’s point – (it’s pathetic, but unsurprising, that the wingnuts who regularly post here would flunk a basic reading comprehension test) …

Cynthia wasn’t castigating the GOP for not being “bi-partisan.” She’s wondering why, in the name of all things holy, did it take Obama and his crew so long to figure out that trying to compromise with the GOP was pointless? You’ve been told Obama refused to compromise?
Bad news – you’re another typical Faux News robo-voter, and you’ve been played.
Barry’s Mr. Compromise – that’s his problem.

Obama started this process with starry-eyed idealistic fantasies of bipartisanship – and when he got reamed, proceeded to make MORE concessions. Why do you think liberals are pissed off at him?
You’d think he’d have had the sense to talk strategy with Clinton – he’d at least have been prepped for the Lying Olympics and Smear-a-thon in store for him.

News flash Barry – we elected you to make these reforms. You have a majority. If you and the Democrats in Congress don’t act now, then you’re as gutless as the GOP has always said.
Why’d you bother to run for office if you were going to throw up white flags at what should have been expected from the usual suspects on the right? If we’re too timid to pull the trigger on healthcare reform when we’re a majority, it shouldn’t surprise us that the kooks at the rallies feel emboldened enough to threaten pulling the trigger for real – or when it actually happens.

Progressives, it’s way past time to grow a pair. Talk back, to friends, family and at the rallies.
Answer every hysterical lying email someone sends you with backup and evidence.
Show everyone you know who funds Americans for Prosperity, Freedomworks and other front organizations organizing the rallies. Connect the dots. It’s not that hard – when you’re trying to figure out who’s lying to you, always follow the money. Massive insurance profits are at stake here.
Did Obama really think they’d just lay down for him?

And it will when cretins on the right fringe are put away once and for all. You’re gone Davo. Nationally the Republican party is a black smoking hole.

Better start looking for volunteers to bus in your constitutents.

August 19th, 2009
8:56 pm

One, if possessed with a single shred of intellectual integrity, must lie the blame for today’s highly polarized political environment at the feet of our ineffective President Obama. Not only has he shown no leadership, he set up a game where he did not solicit Republican input and set up a game of chicken thinking his popularity would cow weak Republicans into votingt for his risky healthcare scheme. Too bad, he blinked and lost. Wish we had a courageous man of character like President Bush back in office

Au contraire Wylld Bill! The Republican Party with which Democrats could make deals no longer exists. The GOP is too narrow; the gap between the parties, too wide. Our politics are not those of the mid-20th century, when bipartisanship was fairly common. If anything, they’re more like those of the mid-19th century, before the Civil War, when North and South combined only to make a house divided against itself — a conflict resolved not by compromise, but, as Lincoln predicted, by a nation then half-slave and half-free becoming “all one thing or all the other.”