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These Obama sycophants have amusingly short memories.
How can anyone forget the vitriolic hate that was visited upon George W. Bush by the left from his first day in office? It *STILL* hasn't ended and here we are four years after W.'s presidency ended.
Do you remember why people had an instant hate for Bush of does your short term memory delete those memories?
Not really. It wasn't even close to the level of hate that Obama faced from Day 1 in office. There was definitely some begrudgement since the perception was that Bush stole the election from Gore, but you didn't have the constant name calling (other than "Dubya"), hatred for the first lady, and labeling of Bush as a foreigner or anti-American like you've had since Obama's inauguration.
The dinner lasted nearly four hours. They parted company almost giddily. The Republicans had agreed on a way forward:
-Go after Geithner. (And indeed Kyl did, the next day: ‘Would you answer my question rather than dancing around it—please?’)
-Show united and unyielding opposition to the president’s economic policies. (Eight days later, Minority Whip Cantor would hold the House Republicans to a unanimous No against Obama’s economic stimulus plan.)
-Begin attacking vulnerable Democrats on the airwaves. (The first National Republican Congressional Committee attack ads would run in less than two months.)
-Win the spear point of the House in 2010. Jab Obama relentlessly in 2011. Win the White House and the Senate in 2012.
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Just wondering......has any other president been so judged and criticized so soon after being elected as Pres. Obama has? Whether you like him or not, it seems pretty unfair. Within days of his inauguration, right wing pundits were criticizing him, and repubs were vowing to make him a one term president. Is this a first?
From day 1 Mr. Obama made it clear what he was giong to do. Those things are antithetical to repbulican POLICY. Why would republicans support someone whos policy views are diametrically opposed to their beliefs?
Just wondering......has any other president been so judged and criticized so soon after being elected as Pres. Obama has? Whether you like him or not, it seems pretty unfair. Within days of his inauguration, right wing pundits were criticizing him, and repubs were vowing to make him a one term president. Is this a first?
All you needed to do was to google this question...
On the night of Barack Obama’s inauguration, Republican leaders met in a private dining room at an expensive Washington, D.C., steakhouse to plot their comeback. It was a mix of congressmen and senators with three others added to diversify the gathering of white men. Pollster Frank Luntz, right-wing journalist Fred Barnes, and former speaker (and soon-to-be former presidential candidate) Newt Gingrich. Gingrich gave the opening remarks and gave tactical advice throughout, including a suggestion for Republicans to target the tax problems of New York Democrat Charlie Rangel. At the end of the night, Gingrich proclaimed, “You will remember this day. You’ll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown.
Yes, these power hungry pigs put the needs of the nation aside for their self-serving agenda. Treasonous!
Why didn't these wimps just get some Viagra to compensate for their lack of real integrity and gonads?
Just wondering......has any other president been so judged and criticized so soon after being elected as Pres. Obama has? Whether you like him or not, it seems pretty unfair. Within days of his inauguration, right wing pundits were criticizing him, and repubs were vowing to make him a one term president. Is this a first?
Yes, Bush was criticized BEFORE he was elected and all throughout both terms. He was judged way more harshly than Obama has been.
From day 1 Mr. Obama made it clear what he was giong to do. Those things are antithetical to repbulican POLICY. Why would republicans support someone whos policy views are diametrically opposed to their beliefs?
geez.
Herein lies the problem, some of what Obama proposed were REPUBLICAN ideas, tax cuts for small businesses, etc, and they still opposed it. I dont agree with a lot of his policies, he is far too liberal for my taste, but, I dont agree with all of the right wing policies either..
A sharper Dem party might have managed expectations differently during the latter stages of the 2008 campaign. If they had, it's more likely Mc Cain/GOP would have had the honor of using their magic wand to make all the problems go away.
If I were the Queen of a Democrat Super Pac in 2008, I would have likely said, "let's sit this one out, guys".
Biden says that during the transition, he was warned not to expect any cooperation on many votes.
“I spoke to seven different Republican Senators, who said, `Joe, I’m not going to be able to help you on anything,’ he recalls. His informants said [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell had demanded unified resistance. “The way it was characterized to me was: `For the next two years, we can’t let you succeed in anything. That’s our ticket to coming back,’” Biden says.
The vice president says he hasn’t even told Obama who his sources were, but Bob Bennett of Utah and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania both confirmed they had conversations with Biden along these lines.
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