Do you agree with the Presidents GOP strategy?

[unkachuck]

Will the Presidents strategy of seeking cooperation with the Republicans bear fruit?

[Auggie]

1. If he keeps it up, I think we'll see less Republicans in Congress

by the end of the year.

That's the strategy. Or part of it.

[Myrina]

12. I think he's trying to save them from themselves ...

... he's giving them the opportunity to at least contribute to getting something done and to pull the GOP back from the ledge knowing that a new bunch of TeaParty Nutbags taking office next year would be even more impossible to work with.

[babylonsister]

2. That's not the strategy. The strategy is to call the rethug party out

for their stubbornness on not helping to govern, when that is their job.


From Axelrod yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x159995

snip//

the White House will make a big push in 2010 to increase public awareness of Republican obstructionism through the use of the filibuster. "They get to work with us, or they have to pay a price,'

snip//

While Axelrod again emphasized that the White House would be focusing on 2010 for now, and on attempting to make Republicans either work with them or pay a political price for obstructing them, he offered no pushback against the idea of changing the rules of the Senate to eliminate the filibuster.

From my vantage point, the implication was very much that the White House would be working on educating the public about how Republicans are using the filibuster to defend the status quo, and that the White House would be very interested if a campaign to end the filibuster altogether if it began to take off concurrent with their efforts.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

4. it is a tactic and it worked

gave the base a little hope as well

[babylonsister]

6. It's not going to work now. Would that bum you out? And the rethug base

needs hope, because no meat was offered by their representatives.

[KILL THE WISE ONE]

11. In every Strategy there are Tactics to support it

yes I believe this worked.
as far as red meat for the base goes Fox dropped the feed.
Most of this broad cast pointed out, to the center how obstructionist the Republicans have been.
That will make them feel safer about loosing the filibuster. That will lower the political cost of end the filibuster forever.

[sharesunited]

3. Today was a one-time demonstration of the problem. Useful for what it was.

Obama will not be invited back. If he wants to host a gathering of the opposition, he can certainly do so. But he shouldn't expect it to be well attended.

[leftstreet]

5. Why would he need a 'strategy' to deal with a dead Party/ideology?

:shrug:

Reaganomics is dead.

The Bush Junta and the Religious Right killed what was left after that.

The Democrats are complicit with the M$M in reviving that dead elephant.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. They ain't dead and they are quite dangerous.

[AlinPA]

15. They are like rattlesnakes in the grass. Sometimes they rattle, sometimes not.

[JNelson6563]

7. I thought you meant the take-it-to-'em strategy

Cause if the smack-down he gave them today is the sort of cooperation we're talkin' about, yeah, I support it.

[msongs]

8. good follow up to a succesful speech, now if dems would ONLY

try some effective PR now and then, it would help a LOT more.

Msongs

[shraby]

9. I cannot second-guess this President. I have trouble

even playing checkers.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Yes, if seeking cooperation is code for what he did today, expose their idiocy.

I'm not sure what you're asking because "seeking cooperation" can be so many things.

Fighting them tooth and nail isn't really productive, but neither is caving in.

Shaming them into cooperation by exposing them? Well, that I can live with.

[HopeHoops]

14. The facts are on Obama's side. The more exposure he can get countering them head-on the better.

Of course FOX will continue to find much more important things to cover like a worker in Kansas who is offended by "Pearls Before Swine" cartoons in a co-worker's cubicle.