The GOP’s unconvincing embrace of ‘compromise’
Apparently, Washington Republicans didn’t much like the president’s speech.
“The words were code for a progressive agenda. I’m hoping that the president will recognize that compromise should have been the words for today, and they clearly weren’t,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), told Politico.
Wait: “Compromise”?
Did Mr. Fast and Furious actually say “compromise”? Somewhere, there’s an irony alarm going off.
U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, Republican of Texas, had a similar response, complaining that “Instead of ‘hope and change,’ Obama has offered only hopelessness, bitter personal attacks and politics as usual.”
And yes, that is the same Steve Stockman currently trying to gin up a campaign to impeach the president.
“President Obama needs to put an end to the extremism that led to record deficits and millions of unemployed Americans, and instead work with Republicans on bipartisan solutions to the serious problems facing our nation,” according to Rep. Steve Scalise, the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee.
The RSC, you may recall, is an organization created for House Republicans who believe that the GOP caucus in general is too liberal and accommodating.
Personally, I don’t believe that anything Obama might have said yesterday, short of “I resign,” could alter the suspicious atmosphere in Washington. In recent years, Republicans may have lacked the power and votes to set the agenda in our nation’s capital, but they have been extremely successful in setting the tone that they now condemn.
In fact, their latest rhetoric suggests that maybe, just maybe, they may be coming to understand the political damage they have inflicted on themselves by such behavior. For example, it’s nice to see that they can now utter the word “compromise” in public without melting down like the Wicked Witch of the West.
That’s progress, of a sort.
– Jay Bookman
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Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
9:45 am
This is your party of compromise for you.
Virginia GOP Pulls ‘Dirty Trick’ On Inauguration Day
Democrats in Virginia are accusing state Republicans of taking advantage of a prominent civil rights leader’s trip to Washington for the presidential inauguration to pull a “dirty trick” in order to take control of the state Senate in the 2015 elections.
The state Senate is split 20-20 between Republicans and Democrats. On Monday, while state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) — a 79-year-old civil rights veteran — was reportedly in Washington to attend President Obama’s second inaugural, GOP senators forced through a mid-term redistricting plan that Democrats say will make it easier for Republicans to gain a majority.
With Marsh’s absence, Senate Republicans in Richmond had one more vote than Senate Democrats and could push the measure through. The new redistricting map revises the districts created under the 2011 map and would take effect before the next state Senate elections in Virginia and would redraw district lines to maximize the number of safe GOP seats.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/republicans-dirty-trick-inauguration.php
TaxPayer
January 22nd, 2013
9:45 am
Republicans “compromise”. So that’s their new code word for pooh.
kayaker 71
January 22nd, 2013
9:45 am
Ah, yes….. the adulation, the fawning…. you might have thought that Henry the Eighth was parading through Washington. Where were the rose petals, the plastic columns….. just what a supreme narcissist needs to make his day. The next four years?….. more of the same. If you don’t get your way, blame someone…… then convince those sheep who voted for you that the Republican Congress is to blame. Never take a hit for something that was your fault. Never let a crisis go to waste. Narcissists do not know the meaning of humility, especially this clown. Doesn’t even know the word exists.
weetamoe
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Most divisive president in history. Eliminationist rhetoric from both him and his democrat never-ending campaign toilers. His communitarianism is much more extreme than Etzioni’s and his notion that individual liberty is possible only in a collectivist society is the most oxymoronic assertion ever made in public. Meanwhile, cute photo of Michele at the *luncheon,* elbows planted firmly on table, shoveling food into mouth.
Bob
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Our kids debt will be 22 trillion in 4 years after these groups compromise.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Stevie Ray: Go back and look at the proposal the GOP made to BO prior to inauguration..
You’ll have to link me to said proposal, because I don’t know what you’re talking about, or forgot what you are talking about.
have no idea what you are speaking to relative to the beltway press being overwhelming conservative. I see no evidence and the idea that people buy more of the conservative media crap than the opposite surely isn’t reflective of poll results…
Poll results don’t mean reality. Here is a study reported on by that bastion of liberalism, The Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/article/the-media-is-biased-but-it-sure-isn-t-liberal
This study wasn’t put together viewing outlets like Fox News exclusively, it contained, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, CNN, NPR, and MSNBC. These outlets have often been lumped together as the so called Liberal media.
Journalist Eric Alterman believes the myth of media Liberal Bias is a masterful though false construction. In fact, it has been so successful over the years, that no one with what the Right would define as Liberal views, can even hope to be given a fair shake in the press today because of fear of being charged with liberal bias.
As this report notes, there is very little positive coverage of the 2012 campaign for either side. If you looked at the Washington Post, the New York Times, Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times, the total positive coverage was less than ten percent of the total. Even here, in both the Boston Globe and Washington Post, positive coverage of Romney was 2-3 percentage points higher than for Obama.
In this study Fox News was as expected, 75.8% of the time more negative to Obama and Democrats. What is remarkable, considering the long held belief in liberal bias, is the percentage bias against liberals of so called liberal outlets.
In this study CBS News is negative to Democrats 63% of the time compared to only 33% for Conservatives. The Washington Post is negative 61.8% of the time to the Democratic Party or so called liberal views, USA Today is negative 59.6%, the New York Times is negative 57.1%, and CNN 56.7% of the time. Only NPR was postive to liberal views 51% of the time and MSNBC 63.4% of the time.
On October 17, 2011 Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism found much the same results. In this study negative assessments outweighed positive assessments by a 4-1 margin. In the 23 weeks of news coverage studied, at no time did President Obama’s positive coverage ever exceed 10%. Also at no time did his negative coverage ever fall below 30%. This was higher than any Republican challenger at the time.
Uh Huh....What About A ConPromise?
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
@Simple Truths
January 22nd, 2013
8:47 am
It was good to read that Jay had one day of positive posts celebrating the life and teachings of MLK. Alas, he is back to his attack on the GOP
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“back to his attack on the GOP?”
Are YOU the black sheep of the Truth Hurts family
or the stepchild of Tell The Truth?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Will not negotiate vs will not compromise? The semantics tap dance kings doing their thing.
Thomas
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Everybody hates you.
Nice…. are we taking a nap before or after our snack today?
barking frog
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Granny Godzilla
RB
You still beat your dog, right?
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Is that what the kids are calling it, nowadays ?
Pizzaman
January 22nd, 2013
9:47 am
I’d write something really meaningful but it wont do any good.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
9:47 am
kayaker: Ah, yes….. the adulation, the fawning…
I’m sorry, but who was SO SURE that Romney would win that he made a $100 bet?
Don’t think I forgot about that….
Patrick Edmondson
January 22nd, 2013
9:48 am
GOP only search for a compromise after they have lost. They believe they have manifest destiny to rule the world, you know the jingoistic myth of their innate superiority to everyone else. Even if Obama had resigned, they’d be sure it was a conspiracy to “set up” their savior for failure or worse…Obama had sold us out to Mars!
Erwin's cat
January 22nd, 2013
9:49 am
I’m calling you on it.
Good luck with that!
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
9:49 am
Thulsa: Will not negotiate vs will not compromise? The semantics tap dance kings doing their thing.
Will not negotiate: Said many times but only on one specific issue
Will not compromise: DARE you to find any place EVER that he said this.
Truth-o-meter
January 22nd, 2013
9:49 am
If conservatives would listen and heed the advice of General Colin Powell, they would be so much better off. Even when the politicians get their act together they still have their little “blog converts” to de-program. These pages are filled with the same bile we hear from the conservative leaders. What is sad is that they believe every word Cantor, the House Speaker and others say. They do as much harm to the Republican brand as the elected officials.
Time will tell.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
9:50 am
Conspiracy theories of a government plot to disarm civilians have reached all the way to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). On the eve of President Obama’s second inauguration, McConnell sent an email to his supporters warning that gun owners were “literally surrounded” and should be prepared for an “all-out assault.”
While they may mouth the words “compromise”, its clear that at least with their base of idiots they continue to paint themselves into a corner.
Uh Huh....What About A ConPromise?
January 22nd, 2013
9:51 am
@weetamoe
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Most divisive president in history. Eliminationist rhetoric from both him and his democrat never-ending campaign toilers. His communitarianism is much more extreme than Etzioni’s and his notion that individual liberty is possible only in a collectivist society is the most oxymoronic assertion ever made in public. Meanwhile, cute photo of Michele at the *luncheon,* elbows planted firmly on table, shoveling food into mouth.
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YOU sound like a decendent of the HONEY BOO BOO clan.
I bet you think that HONEY BOO BOO is cute and her mama is
hot..
I guess we better redneckonize.
phil
January 22nd, 2013
9:51 am
Thankfully, the Repubs are in charge of the house. They can at least slow down the ultra liberal agenda. Same goes for when Dems are the minority. The Repubs can’t just run over everybody with their agenda. Balance has always worked best. And the Pres sets the tone for compromise and working together. Many of the past President’s could pull that off. This one can’t. He’s much too divisive and my way or the highway.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
9:51 am
Simple Truth: I’m asking you to prove what you wrote. In trying to make your claim, you made a wild statement. I’m calling you on it.
To prove which part? That the Republicans held a meeting on inauguration day with a plan to say no to everything, or that Democrats never did the same thing?
Because here’s a hint: I can prove the former, and no one can prove the latter, because the latter is a negative.
Road Scholar
January 22nd, 2013
9:51 am
Where was McConnell yesterday? Getting his head removed from his a$$? Or trying to have a personality transplant to get one!
The Repubs are having trouble with President Obama’s speech because it was in plain English, but all those supposed “code words” have their minds fried!
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
9:53 am
“Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and Professor of Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is also “The Liberal Media” columnist for The Nation and a fellow of The Nation Institute, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, DC,”
Yep. Definitely a far left kook. Bwahahaahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaahahhahaha
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
9:53 am
“Wait: “Compromise”?
Did Mr. Fast and Furious actually say “compromise”? Somewhere, there’s an irony alarm going off”
by compromise, they mean, “do it our way”
Donovan
January 22nd, 2013
9:54 am
Compromise, be damned. We’ve been over this ground before. When the GOP controlled both houses and the WH, the minority Dems played the game of obstructionist very well. They even thought that they were running things. The GOP was wrong to accommodate the weaker side. The Schedule D Medicare legislation was an appeasement bone that backfired into a political club for the minority Dems. When the Dems wouldn’t help seniors the gullible GOP received the knife in the back. Unfunded, you say…what do you libs call this spending jag we’re on?
Compromise? What do you libs call this past taxation (Revenue BS) legislation on only those making $400,000 and leaving the Dems “middle class” alone? I, for one, have been gored once more by your Democrat taxing ox. I do believe that the Republicans were more than accommodating in this recent COMPROMISE legislation.
You and the liberal news media have taken this compromise campaign to its convoluted end. This propaganda is nothing more than a set-up for getting your way with the upcoming debt ceiling fight. Who are you trying to kid? We welcome resistance in the House. You might call it resistance to compromise, but we call it something else. How do you say, we’re not buying.
You can take your cocky attitude , you Leslie Stahl, and your left wing CBS and choke on your idea of compromise.
Simple Truths
January 22nd, 2013
9:56 am
Adam: “Because here’s a hint: I can prove the former, and no one can prove the latter, because the
latter is a negative.”
Then why did YOU write the latter?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
9:56 am
“Will not compromise: DARE you to find any place EVER that he said this”
Adam beating up on straw men again. Whew! At least he only used the single DARE. For a moment there I thought the young feller was going to bring out the dreaded triple dog dare.
the cat
January 22nd, 2013
9:57 am
Thulsa-I don’t know if anyone has reminded you yet today that your views lost all relevance when you applauded the massacre at Newtown. You are scum of the earth and it has become my mission to remind you of this on a daily basis.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
9:58 am
“Then why did YOU write the latter?”
Because Adam do like setting up his straw man.
ATL Tiger
January 22nd, 2013
9:58 am
Phil Mickelson is one of many who will portray society’s most productive citizens as they refuse to be exploited by increasing taxation and government regulations and go on strike. Real life Atlas Shrugged
Welcome to the Occupation
January 22nd, 2013
9:58 am
His communitarianism is much more extreme than Etzioni’s and his notion that individual liberty is possible only in a collectivist society is the most oxymoronic assertion ever made in public
Only in a society eaten up with the moral and intellectual rot that allows a figure like Ayn Rand to become a major thought leader — talk about oxymoronic (emphasis on ‘moron’) – could such a ridiculous misrepresentation as is expressed in this statement be possible.
This is a president who under conditions of the widest chasm in wealth seen in this country since the Depression, and growing apace, still couldn’t even bring himself to mention the word “poverty” a single time in his supposedly big communitarian statement?
Yet he’s a crypto-communist, cry the roobers, just for even making the most timid references to community, mostly veiled in feel-good identify politic language (so as not to worry his Wall St. backers, you know).
What a fraud of a political situation we live in.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
9:59 am
Simple Truths: Then why did YOU write the latter?
Obviously I did it so that little trolls like you would come out of the woodwork and imply that my lack of evidence of a negative proves the opposite.
Why don’t you just lie down….
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
9:59 am
Donovan
“This propaganda is nothing more than a set-up for getting your way with the upcoming debt ceiling fight”.
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And we will be getting our way, no kidding.
The GOP badly overplayed their hand.
stands for decibels
January 22nd, 2013
10:00 am
On Monday, while state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) — a 79-year-old civil rights veteran — was reportedly in Washington to attend President Obama’s second inaugural, GOP senators forced through a mid-term redistricting plan that Democrats say will make it easier for Republicans to gain a majority.
in the immortal words of the late Joe Strummer: “Killers in America work seven days a week.”
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
January 22nd, 2013
10:00 am
Well, I’m sure they can work out something—say, the librul Democrats agree to get rid of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, while the Republicans agree to background checks for gun purchases.
Have a good Tuesday everybody.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:00 am
Because Adam do like setting up his straw man.
Thulsa’s use of “straw man”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk
Stevie Ray..Clowns to the left and Jokers to the right..here I am...
January 22nd, 2013
10:01 am
the cat
January 22nd, 2013
9:57 am
Did thusla really applaud the massacre at Newtown?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
10:01 am
cat, wear a helmet. Those moving goalposts and denials go so fast they may tip over at any time.
St Simons - aboriginal Bootakook 2014
January 22nd, 2013
10:02 am
The a.m. radio codeword for today is ‘novel ideas.’
Despite the hilarious irony of that, I will trudge on with a novel idea.
Since the demographics (codeword!) overtake them in 2015
Don’t Compromise s^&*
Peadawg
January 22nd, 2013
10:03 am
Too cute…love reading the comments about “the other side is the bad guy. the other side won’t compromise” coming from both Republicans and Democrats. Thanks for the laugh!!
Uh Huh....What About A ConPromise?
January 22nd, 2013
10:03 am
@phil
January 22nd, 2013
9:51 am
Many of the past President’s could pull that off. This one can’t. He’s much too divisive and my way or the highway.
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DO “you” people have alzheimer’s or amnesia?
REMEMBER?
The top GOP senator signaled early on he had no intention of cooperating with the new president.
Republicans were so determined to thwart President Obama’s agenda that the Senate Minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, even announced from day one that he was determined to make Obama a one-term president.
WE REMEMBER if you DON’T.
Simple Truths
January 22nd, 2013
10:03 am
Adam @9:59 Hard to have a discourse with you when you just make crap up outside the realm of facts. Your point was valid until you wrote that line.
Elevate your game!
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
10:04 am
the cat
January 22nd, 2013
9:57 am
“Thulsa-I don’t know if anyone has reminded you yet today that your views lost all relevance when you applauded the massacre at Newtown.”
the cat,
I’ll send you a $1,000 check if you can show me where I “applauded” the massacre at Newtown. If you can’t then you should just politely quit your lying and shut the eff up.
“You are scum of the earth and it has become my mission to remind you of this on a daily basis.”
Scum of the earth? You mean like a piece of scum that just makes shiite up out of thin air like saying that someone “applauded” the Newtown massacre? I gotta admit- you making up shiite that someone never said or did is indeed pretty scumbaggish.
alittlecommonsense
January 22nd, 2013
10:05 am
Looks to me like the Republicans are the only ones compromising. Obama surely isn’t. Republicans haven’t gotten any of the spending cuts they keep asking for, but Obama has gotten most of his tax increases. When does Obama start compromising?
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
10:07 am
“Did thusla really applaud the massacre at Newtown?”
Stevie Ray,
A $1,000 check says that is a DAMN LIE from a LYING SACK OF SHIITE. i’ld like to see the liar try and back up his total BS.
alittlecommonsense
January 22nd, 2013
10:07 am
Wow Cat. That’s pretty disgraceful. You had better be able to back up what you are saying. To say someone “applauded the massacre at Newtown” just because they disagree with you politically.
That is disgusting.
Erwin's cat
January 22nd, 2013
10:07 am
the cat – You are scum of the earth and it has become my mission to remind you of this on a daily basis.
tick tick tick
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2013
10:08 am
More electric car charging stations open in Atlanta (AJC)
From an apartment complex in Midtown to a Buckhead gas station and an Alpharetta hotel, electric vehicle charging stations are popping up in greater numbers around metro Atlanta despite questions about how much they’ll be used.
Behind the rising numbers: a federal government program that pays part of the cost to homeowners or businesses that install chargers, with a goal of making them handy enough to encourage use of plug-in electric cars.
About 80 have been installed since August under the program, which aims to add 425 public and private charging stations in metro Atlanta by the end of April, according to the city of Atlanta. An unknown number, perhaps in the dozens, had been installed before the subsidy was available.
The program is available across the region, but the city is pushing businesses, shopping malls and other public places to install the chargers so “EV” owners can juice their vehicles when away from home.
We don’t need no stinkin’ gasoline!
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:09 am
Simple Truths: Your point was valid until you wrote that line.
My point was valid anyway. There is no evidence or even remote suspicion that the Democrats conspired in anything close to a similar manner.
It is not up to me to prove that statement false.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
10:10 am
“Obviously I did it so that little trolls like you…”
When you know you’ve lost the argument.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
January 22nd, 2013
10:11 am
Sooth, positive news! That infrastructure is needed. Now if we could get the situation with the chargers worked out at the airport.
Uh Huh....What About A ConPromise?
January 22nd, 2013
10:11 am
@alittlecommonsense
January 22nd, 2013
10:05 am
When does Obama start compromising?
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REMEMBER THIS?
The top GOP senator signaled early on he had no intention of cooperating with the new president.
Republicans were so determined to thwart President Obama’s agenda that the Senate Minority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, even announced from day one that he was determined to make Obama a one-term president.
WE REMEMBER if you DON’T.
RB from Gwinnett
January 22nd, 2013
10:12 am
“Shall I give you other examples?”
Adam, how about you start by giving any examples and not just a bunch of BS liberal bumper stickers. And stick to your claim that conservatives don’t want everybody to have equal protection under the law and an equal opportunity.
No slogans, Adam. Facts.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:13 am
Thulsa: When you know you’ve lost the argument.
Coming from someone who NEVER knows when he has lost.
Objective observers can see quite clearly that Simple Truths asked me to prove a negative. There was no real “argument” to begin with.
Goldie
January 22nd, 2013
10:13 am
Today’s GOP (Grumpy Old People) is apparently controlled by the extremists of their Party — and if the “sensible” Republicans don’t take control of their Party once again, we’ll definitely see another 4 years of Dem rule in 2016!
the cat
January 22nd, 2013
10:13 am
It will take a bit of searching through all the posts but proof is on the way Thulsa, scum of the earth.
Simple Truths
January 22nd, 2013
10:14 am
COMPROMISE = everyone feels pain
Corporate subsidies get cut
Military gets cut
Home mortgage interest deduction is cut
401k/IRA deduction is slashed
Earned income tax credit erased
Tax rates rise
Falcons lose NFC Championship at home
But, we pay our bills
Erwin's cat
January 22nd, 2013
10:14 am
<i.No slogans, Adam. Facts
Good luck with that one too
Peadawg
January 22nd, 2013
10:14 am
“And stick to your claim that conservatives don’t want everybody to have equal protection under the law and an equal opportunity.”
that’s an easy one…gay marriage is a perfect example of how Republicans don’t want everybody to have equal opportunity
N-GA
January 22nd, 2013
10:14 am
Relative to US politics, nothing gives me as much pleasure as the direction of the Republican Party. Absolutely nothing! Women, Latinos, and LGBT’s are all on to the GOP and their extremist constituents. You take a few very wealthy people, add to that some homophobes, a bunch of misogynists, some old school racists, a slew of intolerant religious zealots, and round that out with some illiterate hicks who don’t know any better and what do you have? The new Republican Party. And they are well-represented on this blog.
DannyX
January 22nd, 2013
10:14 am
“Adam, how about you start by giving any examples and not just a bunch of BS liberal bumper stickers.”
This coming from the billboard follower?
What are the billboards telling you today, rb?
stands for decibels
January 22nd, 2013
10:14 am
Lest anyone forget the bit about working “break him.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Health_reform_foes_plan_Obamas_Waterloo.html
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Also, at the risk of piling on, I agree that “the cat” outrageously overstepped with his character assassination @ 9.57, and he should retract those claws. So to speak.
Doggone/GA
January 22nd, 2013
10:15 am
“And stick to your claim that conservatives don’t want everybody to have equal protection under the law and an equal opportunity. ”
Gay marriage
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
10:15 am
alittlecommonsense
January 22nd, 2013
10:05 am
Looks to me like the Republicans are the only ones compromising. Obama surely isn’t. Republicans haven’t gotten any of the spending cuts they keep asking for, but Obama has gotten most of his tax increases. When does Obama start compromising?
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Looks to me like you need a Lenscrafters coupon.
It’s way easier to give you a wee hint to the most recent….
Do these numbers mean anything to you?
400M not 250M.
Fred ™
January 22nd, 2013
10:16 am
RB from Gwinnett
January 22nd, 2013
9:14 am
Ah, yes, another Bookman blog about how the R’s need to give the D’s whatever socialist crap they’re asking for this week. Hey, I’ll take all of your posession, libs, what are you willing to compromise?
Just toss the fat kids another cookie and they’ll shut up for a day.
And then they’ll start whining about something else they want thats “just so unfair…” Like a bunch of friggin’ children.
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And here we have the angry hate filled white man who is still so ate up with jealousy that America REJECTS his FOXBOT lies.
Preach the HATE RB, vent your anger, tell more FOXBOT lies. In the end? you STILL lost because America REJECTS YOU. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH
stands for decibels
January 22nd, 2013
10:16 am
(Working TO ‘break him’, I meant @ 10.14, of course. Stupid English language with all its infinitive verb forms and fancy stuff.)
JamVet
January 22nd, 2013
10:16 am
The Republican’s non-compromise, purity tested medicine must taste really bitter to them these days.
Let the con crushings continue with all earnest!
you can't fix stupid or Democrats or liberals
January 22nd, 2013
10:17 am
Same old crap liberal media attacking the GOP….you can make polls do anything or say anything you want……just like the head line College votes to keep racist name….shame on you….
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
January 22nd, 2013
10:18 am
“Apparently, Washington Republicans didn’t much like the president’s speech.”
Apparently, half the voters didn’t vote for him either.
DownInAlbany
January 22nd, 2013
10:19 am
“As I said earlier this week, one thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they’ve already racked up.”
For those of you that would rather split hairs…
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
10:19 am
“It will take a bit of searching through all the posts but proof is on the way Thulsa, scum of the earth.”
dude. sailing a little close to the wind … Jay will excommunicate you if you’re not careful.
Erwin's cat
January 22nd, 2013
10:19 am
Let the con crushings continue with all earnest
Now that’s the true spirit of compromise…dang cons!
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
10:19 am
JamVet
Think this will help?
td
January 22nd, 2013
10:19 am
Truth-o-meter
January 22nd, 2013
9:49 am
If conservatives would listen and heed the advice of General Colin Powell,
Then they would be Democrats. If the American people wanted Obama back in charge of the entire government then they would have given Democrats back control of the house. The American people do not want the Obama agenda (his vision) approved.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
10:20 am
““Apparently, Washington Republicans didn’t much like the president’s speech.””
good grief … read that as the Washington Redskins didn’t much like the president’s speech.
had a serious WTF moment.
DannyX
January 22nd, 2013
10:20 am
“Same old crap liberal media attacking the GOP”
What’s next, BENGHAZI?
Paul
January 22nd, 2013
10:20 am
“their latest rhetoric suggests that maybe, just maybe, they may be coming to understand the political damage they have inflicted on themselves by such behavior.”
They won’t compromise for the good of the nation, but they will change to preserve their seats.
Patriots. Yeah, right…..
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:21 am
RB: Adam, how about you start by giving any examples and not just a bunch of BS liberal bumper stickers. And stick to your claim that conservatives don’t want everybody to have equal protection under the law and an equal opportunity.
I did already.
Conservatives voted against the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. They voted against other equal pay for women bills. They vote against measures designed to bring more federal money to poor districts that are targeted to improve education and health care in those areas. They vote FOR measures to restrict abortion. They vote FOR measures to restrict birth control. They propose measures that make you have to justify using birth control to your BOSS. They vote against Planned Parenthood funding and propose measures to shut down any health clinic that provides services for women if it may also be even loosely tied to abortion in any fashion.
Specific enough for you?
What is it going to take for these deniers?
DownInAlbany
January 22nd, 2013
10:22 am
Subject that will never be reported on this blog….
Oil giant Exxon Mobil plans to donate $250,000 to help foot the bill for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration today.
During the presidential debates with Governor Mitt Romney, Obama singled out the oil company by name and blasted them as a corporate welfare recipient who profits off voters’ pain at the pump. “The oil industry gets $4 billion a year in corporate welfare,” Obama said. “Now, does anybody think that Exxon Mobil needs some extra money when they’re making money every time you go to the pump? Why wouldn’t we want to eliminate that?”
St Simons - aboriginal Bootakook 2014
January 22nd, 2013
10:22 am
“Character outs itself” – truest words ever typed on this blog
-by the pulitzer-in-waiting host himself.
USinUK - just grateful not to be snowbound
January 22nd, 2013
10:22 am
Adam – 10:21 – that’s one helluva bumpersticker.
Fred ™
January 22nd, 2013
10:22 am
you can’t fix stupid or Democrats or liberals
January 22nd, 2013
10:17 am
Same old crap liberal media attacking the GOP….you can make polls do anything or say anything you want……just like the head line College votes to keep racist name….shame on you….
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Ah you sad little man. All your hate and anger will not make your silly little lies true. But keep spew the hate keep harboring your irrational anger. It has served you sad pathetic Republicans well. When at first you fail miserablely like you have the last two elections, don’t change a thing. Double down on your hate filled rhetoric. Dial up your impotent rage. Feed your jealousy. Tell bigger and bolder lies. That will REALLY work……..’
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
10:22 am
td
Seen Joe Scar on the gop house win?
Regnad Kcin
January 22nd, 2013
10:23 am
Simple Truths: Then why did YOU write the latter?
Adam – that’s all they got.
Ask them if they can prove – ABSOULUTELY – that Mitt didn’t accept amnesty for his Swiss bank account.
Soothsayer
January 22nd, 2013
10:24 am
“Most people would prefer a charming falsehood to the severity of truth.”
“I am finding great success with central banking, paper money, and ever-increasing debt. Frankly, they are an easy sell, and people come to me begging to be part of the scam. It has been quite profitable so far and looks to be good for a long time.”
“Derivatives on European debt have proven to be a far better investment than expected. My friends and I have made $Billions on these pieces of paper. Actually I lost count – we might be into the $Trillions by now. Regardless, these and other derivatives have been huge winners.”
“The deficit spending thing is doing well also. We take money that we collect in taxes plus we borrow a bunch more, and then we spend it on some really cool stuff, plus we buy votes and wars and a great retirement system for us, and then we lean on Wall Street, military contractors, oil companies, and Big Pharma for more contributions, and it works out really swell for my buddies and me. Every two years we do it again, but even bigger.”
“I’ll give you a short lesson in politics. First, nobody wants to hear that this grand scheme will ever stop. Second, it has lasted a long time, so why shouldn’t it work for another 100 years? Third, nobody jumps off a moving gravy train. Fourth, people can’t see what they don’t want to see.”
This is a GREAT short article (maybe 5 mins) and I invite you to read it.
phil
January 22nd, 2013
10:24 am
I do remember McConnell saying they would try their best to make Obama a one term President. This is surprising why? Now, do you remember Dems working their asses off to obstruct the Repubs when the Repubs controlled both houses and the WH? Because I REMEMBER that as well. Same road, we’ve been on it before.
GT
January 22nd, 2013
10:24 am
The Republicans real bone with Obama is he is the defender of people these bullies want blood from. He does it in a distinguish way that drives this mob of unwashed buffoons that love to scream liar in the middle of a State of the Union address, their total Congressional contribution for several years now, crazy.
I thought somewhere in the Republican debates ,after witnessing Perry close up, the “brain trust” of the right might consider restraining anybody with a cowboy hat and a cucumber in his jeans from using a public microphone.
I say let em speak! Give those boys all the rope they need.
DownInAlbany
January 22nd, 2013
10:24 am
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:21 am
Yet Obama mentions equal pay for women while it is documented that he consistently pays men more than women himself?
DannyX
January 22nd, 2013
10:25 am
“Seen Joe Scar on the gop house win?”
Granny beat me to it. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/01/20/scarborough_gerrymandering_delivered_the_house_to_the_republicans.html
“The American people do not want the Obama agenda (his vision) approved.”
Republican leadership doesn’t want Americans to have a real choice.
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:27 am
Yet Obama mentions equal pay for women while it is documented that he consistently pays men more than women himself?
Appeal to hypocrisy.
Obama is wrong to do that, but Republicans are also wrong to consistently oppose any measures that would help bridge the divide.
Paul
January 22nd, 2013
10:27 am
Keep Up
“McConnell sent an email to his supporters warning that gun owners were “literally surrounded” and should be prepared for an “all-out assault.” ”
It’s a fine line between lying and hyperbole when it comes to politicians, but that’s closer to a downright lie than anything I heard from the administration on Benghazi.
But it’s about the same as what I heard from Republicans on Benghazi.
Hmmmm…. does there appear to be a pattern there?
Regnad Kcin
January 22nd, 2013
10:27 am
Really? Mr. Doom said that? Oh, my!
Adam
January 22nd, 2013
10:29 am
BTW DownInAlbany, would you now say I am an unflinching devotee of Obama and that I consider him a god or some other such nonsense?
Fred, TBG, take note that I just admitted Obama is wrong about something.
Freaking people can’t understand why I would oppose some of what Obama does but still think the GOP is freaking NUTS right now? Again, WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE?
stands for decibels
January 22nd, 2013
10:30 am
Adam @ 10.21, add to your list consistent opposition by legislative conservatives to the expansion of SCHIP–something it took Obama’s election to finally change.
these conservative legislators are so opposed to equal opportunity they’ve actually stood in the way of working-class parents having affordable health insurance for their children. That past bit of loathsomeness really doesn’t get enough airing, I don’t think.
Thulsa Doom
January 22nd, 2013
10:30 am
“Ask them if they can prove – ABSOULUTELY – that Mitt didn’t accept amnesty for his Swiss bank account.”
Regnad,
What does having a Swiss bank account have to do with anything? Its no more unAmerican than buying an foreign made car or buying any of thousands of different products that come from overseas. And perhaps you didn’t know this but millions of joe and jane six pack Americans have money in overseas stocks through mutual funds in their 401ks.
Ya’ll really do need to get over the nonsensical crap about Romney having money offshore or in overseas Hedge funds. Do you guys even know or understand why there are a lot of hedge funds registered overseas and not in the U.S.?
The other half of your brain.
January 22nd, 2013
10:31 am
The GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP, GOP,
Did I mention Global Warming?
td
January 22nd, 2013
10:31 am
Granny Godzilla
January 22nd, 2013
10:22 am
td
Seen Joe Scar on the gop house win?
No. But let me guess the lib line he used. Gerrymandered districts is the only reason the GOP held the majority in the house. How close am I?
indigo
January 22nd, 2013
10:32 am
kayaker 71 – 9:45
If it had been a Romney inaugration parade yesterday, then “the adulation, the fawning” comming from you would make most of us want to puke.
Simple Truths
January 22nd, 2013
10:32 am
Adam @10:29 “Freaking people can’t understand why I would oppose some of what Obama does but still think the GOP is freaking NUTS right now? Again, WHAT IS IT GOING TO TAKE?”
I think many people understand your position and your frustration. I also think many people disagree with your conclusions.
Joe Hussein Mama
January 22nd, 2013
10:32 am
Uh . . .Joe Hussein — “Tell me – do you or Granny, or even Jay, pay this much?”
Tell me, do you pay much attention to detail? The figures I quoted were *someone else’s.* Perhaps you should read back, find *that* person and then put your query to them.
Half Century Dawg
January 22nd, 2013
10:33 am
barking frog
January 22nd, 2013
9:46 am
Granny Godzilla
RB
You still beat your dog, right?
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Is that what the kids are calling it, nowadays ?
now that was funny, Thanks Barking Frog