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flpoljunkie

(26,184 posts)
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 07:25 AM Sep 2013

Dear Bob Woodward: Regarding President Obama needing to lead and negotiate with the Republicans...

Have you forgotten the maxim that you do not negotiate with terrorists or extortionists. If you do, the demands will never end.

(Woodward's bloviating on Morning Joe)

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Dear Bob Woodward: Regarding President Obama needing to lead and negotiate with the Republicans... (Original Post) flpoljunkie Sep 2013 OP
Between Woodward and the obtuse Nicole Wallace, I had to turn it off. Where is Joe???..n/t monmouth3 Sep 2013 #1
I turned it off, too... CherokeeDem Sep 2013 #3
I'm sure he pointed to examples where a Democratic faction compelled a R-President BeyondGeography Sep 2013 #2
Woodward's shelf life expired long ago and Wallace needs major voice modulation training...she CTyankee Sep 2013 #4
The ACA is already one big compromise Mz Pip Sep 2013 #5
Yep. Heritage Foundation inspired and patterned after Romney's Massachusetts healthcare law. flpoljunkie Sep 2013 #6
true. Every time Obama gives an inch, ellenrr Sep 2013 #7

CherokeeDem

(3,709 posts)
3. I turned it off, too...
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:19 AM
Sep 2013

Woodward is so full of himself and Nicole Wallace is annoying to say the least. I turned the TV off when she was going on about how 'adorable' John Boehner was in the clip from 1995 regarding the government shut down.

Among the other things Boehner is not... he is not adorable. GAG....

BeyondGeography

(39,374 posts)
2. I'm sure he pointed to examples where a Democratic faction compelled a R-President
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:11 AM
Sep 2013

to alter an SC-validated law with his name on it because they hated it and him. This in exchange for agreeing to raise funds for money owed...

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
4. Woodward's shelf life expired long ago and Wallace needs major voice modulation training...she
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 08:42 AM
Sep 2013

always sounds squeaky and shrieky. But that repuke from AZ, Matt Salmon, was the WORST. He kept putting his hand to his heart in a gesture of "reasonableness," when he was just another repuke LIAR. I wanted to go through the TV and slap him stupid...

flpoljunkie

(26,184 posts)
6. Yep. Heritage Foundation inspired and patterned after Romney's Massachusetts healthcare law.
Mon Sep 30, 2013, 10:09 AM
Sep 2013

Let's see how it works and work out the kinks. Or course, the Republicans are definitely not interested in making Obamacare work.

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