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Conway To Town Hall Protesters: 'Come Up With Your Own Solutions'
By ESME CRIBB Published FEBRUARY 23, 2017, 10:32 AM EDT
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway said on Thursday that protesters should come up with their "own solutions" to questions raised at town halls held by Republican members of Congress.
"Protesting is covered under the First Amendment. That's all fine. But come up with your own solutions," Conway said on "Fox and Friends."
She blamed "a combination of people" for the large crowds and vocal criticism Republican lawmakers have faced at town halls and public events.
"Some people are upset with an election result they didn't see coming," she said. "You see people who are concerned about the swiftness of change, and I think that you've got some members heeding that call and taking their questions. I just don't hear a lot of solutions."
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mahatmakanejeeves
(56,897 posts)Also, why is it our job to come up with answers to problems that you created?
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)JHB
(37,132 posts)Her job is to flack, in one direction only. Even acknowledging a different viewpoint as legit is grounds for her boss to expel her: out the door or through the window.
MurrayDelph
(5,281 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 1, 2017, 01:53 PM - Edit history (1)
but Democrats had been fixing Republican-caused problems my entire life.
Tanuki
(14,893 posts)is Fox. See how the mighty have fallen. Sad!
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Solutions are born out of expressing opinions in public.
Zoonart
(11,750 posts)We don't make the laws... that's what we PAY our Representatives for. That's why we are angry and want them to provide leadership solutions that don't ...you know... kill us.
So Conway...I see you used your little detention/vacation in the basement of the White House for some refection and soul searching.
Having found no soul... you're at it again with your stupid pronouncements.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Repeal all Republicans...
Replace with Democrats...
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,281 posts)and Oregon
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)That's a solution
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)not being in the public eye.
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)They kept her off long enough for someone to write about her absence. And then viola! she's there. They do the same thing with news stories they don't want to talk about. Refuse to comment, then when story comes out, say it's inaccurate.
The same principles apply here. I read a politico story about her freeze out on Tuesday and I said to myself "she'll be back on the air within 24 hours." That's pretty much what happened.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)Sadly I was hoping she had been muzzled, but I should have known better. Long before she was with Trump, I saw her on Bill Maher's show and she was just as insufferable then. I was looking forward to the day when I would never see her face or hear that voice again.
BannonsLiver
(16,162 posts)They're starting to establish patterns which are easy to recognize.
I always thought Conway was a dingbat and like you, never expected her to be in this position. Someday we will be rid of her.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)There are predictable patterns throughout this administration. Even Trump's unpredictable behavior has become predictable.
Maybe post White House Kellyanne can start a club with Sarah Palin and reminisce about their glory days.
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)See problem solved.
Collusion with the Russians - Trump and Pence resign. Consensus candidates replace them.
Problem solved.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)In effect for some years now, but here's the basic refresher:
Rule #1: Don't get sick
Rule #2: If Rule # 1 somehow fails and you do get sick, die quickly
Simple, straightforward, low budget, and as Kellyanne suggests, coming up with one's own solutions.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Rule #1: Don't get sick
Rule #2: If Rule # 1 somehow fails and you do get sick, send all your money to your favorite insurer/pharma/HMO, then die quickly
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)the gulag.
forgotmylogin
(7,496 posts)We hire them via voting and we pay them via our taxes. Usually, this works to ensure the government comes up with solutions which resolve what the majority of people want.
When employees get out of control and don't do the job they're supposed to do, we fire them. Usually after an angry talking-to, which is what the protests and the town halls are.
45 is still on his probation period, and it's not working out well.
ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)When we can't pass our own laws? That's the whole point of these protests- to get our elected representatives to, you know, REPRESENT US- not their party, not their President, but WE THE PEOPLE!
Rex
(65,616 posts)Tell angry, desperate people to suck it up! YES! I LOVE IT!
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Initech
(99,915 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)You've created the problem/s, you come up with the solution/s. Oh right, you can't.
LAS14
(13,749 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)Even with a Conscience Trump will never be a real boy.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,097 posts)You dont belong anywhere near the WH, it is a fucking disgrace.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)You dont belong anywhere near the WH, it is a fucking disgrace.
CrispyQ
(36,231 posts)~ paper ballots
~ term limits
~ redraw district lines fairly
~ a progressive tax structure
~ shore up Social Security by raising the cap - also, the US govt could pay back what it's borrowed -
~ medicare for all
~ fair trade, not free trade
So, how much of the above will the GOP work on? Squat.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The classics. Richard Daley was mayor of Chicago during some very turbulent times in the 1960s and 1970s. The 1968 Democratic Convention and Chicago Police Riot occurred on his watch. One of Mayor Daley's favorite tactics whenever someone confronted him about some deficiency in his governance, his first response was almost always, "Well, what's your plan? Where is your solution?"
It worked pretty good sometimes, mostly because a solution wasn't really possible because the damage was still ongoing. "Slow down." No, you wanted the other pedal. "Hit the brakes!" Oops, now we've gone off the cliff. "Bail out!"
"You said we needed to slow down." Yeah, but that was before we plowed through that crowd of people, went off the cliff, and crashed in the canyon. It's a bit late to talk of slowing down now.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)How about this for a solution....
Republicans can start doing their jobs or get the fuck out of our way.
Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,425 posts)in deference to your crowd, is to leave things alone that work, and don't make up reasons they don't work to screw them up.
See how easy that is?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)we need to make solutions we would but every time we figure one out to do it is taken away or being talked about taking it away.