Washington (CNN) -- President Obama tore into the Republican opposition on Capitol Hill Wednesday, blaming the GOP for what he called politically motivated opposition on virtually every issue.Are you serious? The same guy who responded "we won" to legitimate complaints about certain policies is accusing his political opponents of obstructionism??? Did the years 2002 through 2006 not happen? The GOP controlled the Presidency, House, and Senate, yet were thwarted in many avenues by the minority party for four years, and all of a sudden it's an issue now...
Democrats have been willing to incorporate Republican ideas on health care and other issues, he said, but Republicans have not been willing to do the same.
The Democrats obstructed:
- Charles Pickering
- Janice Rogers Brown
- More gasoline refineries
- Miguel Estrada
- Efforts to reform Social Security
- Priscilla Owens
Remember the "Gang of 14"? The Nuclear Option? The Democrats obstructed so many Bush nominees as the minority party that such terms became commonplace. And yet, a scant year after the Annointed Øne takes office, they've got the nerve to complain about Republican obstruction? Republicans who, until the election of Scott Brown, didn't even have enough votes to filibuster?
Here's the best part of the article:
The Democratic answer to the Massachusetts Senate race should not be "to do nothing" in Congress, he said. Nervous constituents want to see legislative progress, he asserted.Yeah! The Big Ø learned NOTHING from the election losses in VA, NJ, and MA. His response to losing Ted Kennedy's senate seat, a seat held by Democrats for well over 50 years? DO IT AGAIN ONLY HARDER. The biggest downside, of course, is that come November, when this strategy backfires and results in more losses, it will mean more Republicans in office...
"We should do more, and we should do so without delay," he said.
Øbama had better watch out, or he's going to run out of people to throw under the bus before the end of his term...
That is all.
UPDATE: Shorter Borepatch, in comments:
More, please. Faster, please.
November is coming. Hope. Change.
Heh.
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Another example would be Republicans' repeated attempts to do something about the bad debt being accumulated by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. All blocked by Dims, using the most specious and stupid and malignant reasoning. Barney [spit!] Frank actually had the gall to accuse Republicans of racism in one such case, because the then-CEO of Fannie Mae happened to be black.
When I thought of "Barry Lackwit" as an epithet for this White House resident, it was meant as a somewhat-more-clever-than-most put-down, a nicely subtle historical allusion, and an indicator of how little respect I have for him. I never dreamed it would turn out to be so literally descriptive. Completely, totally, utterly witless he is. I've seen trees that were better at learning from experience.
What wolfwalker said.
More, please. Faster, please.
November is coming. Hope. Change.
While I applaud Barry's efforts in handing the Republicans back the government this November, I don't believe the Reps are ready to do the right thing either. We've got 10 months to continue changing attitudes. It's our Country and they work for us.
Also, while I'm sorry you have to deal with Frank in your state, your neighbors stupidly keep voting him in. They deserve him, even if you don't. :(
That's a constant theme on the left.
It's funny, the Dems had an unbeatable majority in both Houses and kept publicly accusing them of not having any alternate plans and now it's all the GOP's fault.
Tools.
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