Rising Hegemon
There was supposed to be a bipartisan summit at the White House on Thursday, but only the Democrats showed up. The Republican leadership of the House and Senate somehow couldn’t find any time in their schedules to meet with the president of the United States...
Beyond the practical implications of this rudeness, there is an increasingly obvious lack of respect for the president and the presidency, with Republicans interpreting their electoral victory as a mandate to act with hubris. Steny Hoyer, the outgoing House majority leader, noted Thursday that he couldn’t remember a single instance when Democrats did not change their schedule to accommodate a request to meet with President George W. Bush. Mr. McConnell has already made it clear that defeating Mr. Obama is more important than negotiating on legislation. Apparently, that also goes for snubbing Mr. Obama.
If Harry Reid did this to Obama, FoxNews would go apeshit. Instead on FoxNews, Obama doing what Presidents have always done is the one being arrogant...i.e. uppity.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next two years.
The 'wimp' meme will be out there before you know it. And America hates wimps.
And, right on cue, Grover Norquist is busily egging the wackos on, saying that "this time," shutting down the government will be good for the GOP.
Well, except for that part of the government that's spying on everyone, groping them in airports, busily trying to conquer the world and fight the eternal war against "evil," and throwing money at the banksters.
Those activities are off-limits....
...FoxNews would go apeshit.
By FoxNews I assume that you're referring to the Tepublican Kiosk cabal channel, where, from top to bottom, rational- and critically thinking-Americans with a concern for the commonwealth and the welfare of their fellow citizens are referred to as Nazis, communists, fascists, socialists, evil perpetrators, spawn of Satan, dupes, anti-American, leftsist loons, etc. etc., etc., so on and so forth. That FoxNews?
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next two years.
Exactly. I had hoped for some breathing room but it will be 24/7/365 bring-down-Obama, bring-down-the Gummint, olde-time, hate/fear-fest mongering on steroids and Four Loco*. And I can only assume that they will follow the pattern so far and keep ratcheting up trying to out crazy one another.
*available in eight....uh, nine flavors: Grape, Fruit Punch, Orange Blend, Watermelon, Blue Raspberry, Lemon Lime, Lemonade, Cranberry Lemonade and Teabagger Bilge.
can we have barack turn into 'give 'em hell, barry'.
foxnews?
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