from an RNC operative last year work out for you guys?
[Conservatives and Republicans] should do their best not to permit Obama to rush his agenda through this year. They can't allow Obama to make of 2009 what Franklin Roosevelt made of 1933 or Johnson of 1965. Slow down the policy train. Insist on a real and lengthy debate. Conservatives can't win politically right now. But they can raise doubts, they can point out other issues that we can't ignore (especially in national security and foreign policy), they can pick other fights -- and they can try in any way possible to break Obama's momentum.
You must have been fucking high as a kite if you thought the Republicans were ever going to play nice with you on anything. Eleven-dimensional chess, my ass. More like naive beyond belief.
You are not naive. Obama had a wonderful campaign and should have stuck to it. He allowed Beltway maggots to infest his administration and now he has to fumigate. This administration needs to remember this one simple rule:
The Republicans don't like you. They're never going to like you. They insinuate that you're a bastard from a n[clang]-loving white woman. Joe Lieberman campaigned actively for your defeat. Fuck them! It is time to make up with the Progressives and begin to legislate from a position of strength.
It pains me to write those words, but it's true. Come to terms with it and reformulate your battle plan.
Posted by: Monica_A: Winner Like Quinner | January 20, 2010 at 09:42 PM
What Monica said.
Posted by: Hecate Demetersdatter, Runnymeade Conspirator | January 20, 2010 at 10:10 PM
I'm not claiming naivete. I'm accusing the administration of arrogant naivete.
Unless, of course, this was their plan all along. CHECK MATE!
Posted by: watertiger | January 20, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Sorry. I've been drinking all day.
Posted by: Monica_A: Winner Like Quinner | January 20, 2010 at 10:24 PM
no need to apologize, Monica. I feel your pain.
Wait until you hear his interview with Stephanopoulos...
Posted by: watertiger | January 20, 2010 at 10:27 PM
Screw this crap
GO JETS!
Posted by: wa ching | January 20, 2010 at 10:41 PM
DC water makes democrats pliable.
Posted by: pansypoo | January 20, 2010 at 10:52 PM
The behavior of this administration in regard to "bipartisanship" is the textbook definition of insanity.
Posted by: DrDick | January 20, 2010 at 11:00 PM
He did stick to it! Remember the line about "there is no red states of America, there is no blue states of America, we're the United States of America?" That was in all the stump speeches. He believed it, and he's still trying to seek compromises on policy matters with the Red Staters who literally believe he's a Muslim, a foreigner, a bastard, and a usurper fraudulently installed as the President.
Obama's ego is a part of the problem. He is too attached to his self image of cool and competence to realize that wingnuts are not impressed with his eloquence, his grasp of the details, his faith in the American People. They're not going to reach a deal. They're not coming to discuss policy with him. Those chains are his size, and that one-way ticket to Kenya is in his name.
Month after painful month, liberals have winced as Obama's only contribution to the health care debate was to urge concession upon compromise. He said he wanted something, but made it clear he would accept anything. In his address to a joint session of congress he specifically called out liberals to demand them to submit to compromise. That was the end of the "public option" insurance.
And it meant that the only stand he ever took was against liberals in Congress.
It's gone on too long. Since yesterday, Republicans don't fear Obama. If they can win Ted Kennedy's old seat, they can win anywhere, and everywhere. Liberals aren't inspired by him any more. The only liberals voting or donating now are doing so out of fear for the country under President Palin and not out of hope for the country under President Obama.
The problem with running on hope and change is that if you don't bring the change, the hope changes to despair. That's where Dems are today. Today we're supposed to think the best we can hope for is that Obama signs a law to make you buy insurance from some mega-corporation you may or may not like.
That's where twelve months of not fighting for anything gets you.
Another twelve months of this and the Republicans will be using heir new majorities in Congress to hold impeachment hearings.
Posted by: Max Power | January 21, 2010 at 12:57 AM
Oh jeez. NYT : "President Obama signaled on Wednesday that he might be willing to scale back his proposed health care overhaul to a version that could attract bipartisan support" - on the anniversary of his inauguration no less.
Posted by: Max Power | January 21, 2010 at 01:09 AM
If this double quotes...I'm sorry...
Maybe Michelle should make him sleep on the couch or floor...for the next 6 months...
To think I drove from Toronto to join the million plus others at the inauguration...what a waste!
I finally understand as a Canadian why there are so many independent voters in the US. To the Democratic Party...you can't even move forward positive legislation with a large majority in the house and senate...fuck you and your corporate toadies...
Sorry I haven't been drinking all day...
Posted by: Geoff | January 21, 2010 at 03:04 AM
Max...
Hope turns to dispair. You called that right. Get the feeling you've been used and thrown away? Screw Obama. If he thinks he can wait until the year before the election to throw us a bone and we'll forgive and forget, he's wrong.
Posted by: Carol | January 21, 2010 at 07:04 AM
What we need and what we haven't had is a politically savvy Democratic president who could squeeze the nuts of any congressman or senator to get what he wanted since LBJ.
Can you imagine Joe Lieberman carrying on like he does today in the mid 60's? LBJ would have turned him into a pulled pork sandwich and ate him for lunch!
Posted by: queek | January 21, 2010 at 09:20 AM
Beyond this Rep/Dem one party system of corporatocracy, we're going to be significantly absent as a species in the next 100 years due to our on-going ignorance of the environment. A great "die-off" is just beginning and will continue to pick up speed in this time-frame. Look for an ever- decreasing standard of living, scarcity of all kinds of resources (while our money becomes worthless) including drinking water, and an inability to grow enough food for mass consumption.
Posted by: Tom | January 21, 2010 at 10:09 AM
"Another twelve months of this and the Republicans will be using heir new majorities in Congress to hold impeachment hearings."
Posted by: Max Power
Those charges he will be impeached on? I bet they would have the absolute temerity to charge him with war crimes that were institutionalized by Busho and continued by Obama. And don't think they'll give it a second thought. Can you say blow job boys and girls?
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | January 21, 2010 at 11:36 AM
we need to destroy Fux propagana gnews and lamebaugh.
Posted by: pansypoo | January 21, 2010 at 03:09 PM