Axelrod hopes GOP gains will bring cooperation

[jtuck004]

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While saying he thought his party would retain its majority in both the House and Senate in the November 2 voting, Axelrod told the CBS program "Face The Nation" that that he hoped Republican gains would bring more cooperation.

He accused Republicans of deliberate obstruction as a political strategy since President Barack Obama took office last year with majorities in both the House and Senate.

"The posture of the Republican Party from the moment we got here has been basically to deprive the president of bipartisan support so they could accuse him of not being bipartisan," Axelrod said.

"So I'm hoping that with more seats, the Republicans will feel a greater sense of responsibility to work with us to solve some of these problems," he said.
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So let me see if I have this straight. He thinks that the Republithugs, who have been following a strategy of obstruction
and obfuscation since Obama took office, may be rewarded with an increase of seats in at least the House.

If they increase their seats they will no doubt view this as a reward and vindication of their previous behavior.

And this will cause them to change their behavior and be more cooperative?

Sigh. Either Axelrod slept through Psych 101 or he just really likes seeing his name on CNN.

[northoftheborder]

1. Axelrod - delusional dreams of cooperation from Thugs

[Catshrink]

2. I thought he was supposed to be a savvy pol

He's pretty thick if you ask me.

[Politicub]

3. Is he nuts?

What is wrong with these "cooperation" people?!

[bemildred]

4. What a tool. nt

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Holy crap

No wonder we are where we are.

[northernlights]

6. there's that 4-letter word again

hope. I hate that word. hate it.

Axlerod is an idiot. He sounds as though he hopes the rethugs will take over. Well, I suppose he does. The Titanic is about to go down and I expect neither party really wants to be at the helm when it does.

[leftstreet]

7. If only we'd had the majority

We wouldn't have to hope and pray the Republicans would 'cooperate'

:eyes:

[RKP5637]

26. Yeah, and per his logic there would just be so much cooperation if

the R's had the presidency and the congressional majorities. Then the dems could just say yes, yes, yes.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. ...

:spray:

:silly:

:crazy:

:wtf:

:banghead:

[NutmegYankee]

9. Someone needs to put down the crack pipe... nt

[RKP5637]

10. I'm really having trouble listening to this crap type of logic anymore. The next

step will be, "well, we tried, but they have the majority you know. What could we do but go along with them, and the Blue Dogs jump up and applaud."

[WhiteTara]

11. he can't leave soon enough for me. n/t

[RKP5637]

12. dupe

[DJ13]

13. Werent they dreaming of that the last 2 years?

It doesnt work, stop appeasing our domestic terrorists.

[Skittles]

do they ever learn?

repukes are like rabid dogs - you don't compromise with rabid dogs, you shoot them down

[Vickers]

14. Alcohol and interviews don't mix. n/t

[SomeGuyInEagan]

15. Axelrod = Dip. Shit.

Sadly, someone approves his message before he walks it out there.

[Terra Alta]

16. Axelrod is living in a fantasy world.

Repukes cooperating? Hell, we can't even get some of our own to cooperate much less the GOPigs.

[FrenchieCat]

17. While saying he thought his party would retain its majority in both the House and Senate in the Nov

he said.


Let us crap one more time on Democrats right here!
.....cause hell, we are too weak to do anything else.

Certainly, just like those we complaint about about,
we don't do shit either. So we can keep talking tough shit....
but we are weak sauce.....

[Yeshuah Ben Joseph]

18. Yeah right.

We can't even get cooperation from half of the so-called "Democrats", let alone the Repukes.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. Does he believe in the Easter Bunny, too?

Good grief............

[City Lights]

20. Oh brother...

:eyes:

He could not possibly be any more clueless. :argh:

[Edweird]

21. There you have it Ladies and Gentlemen.

[xchrom]

22. All I can do is laugh. Nt

[GreenTea]

23. Is Axelrod out of his fucking mind!!

The republicans wanted nothing to do with helping the workers, the economy, job creating, the environment, rebuild our infrastructure, health care for ALL, the democrats nor President Obama even now while having a relatively small republican minority in power.

Axelrod is "hoping" that the republicans who despise the Dems with all their being, Axelrod is "hoping" that the Obama administration can work with an even larger majority of republicans with the 2012 elections only two years away? When it was extremely clear to all of us (except the Obama administration) from day one, that the just say NO obstructionist republicans would never ever work with the democrats.

Let me ask the same rhetorical question - Is Axelrod out of his fucking mind!!

[11 Bravo]

24. And I hope that a giant pterodactyl snatches Sean Hannity up by the hair ...

and then drops him into an active volcano. But that probably isn't going to happen either.

[Jim Sagle]

25. The Ax reflects his employer's intention to kill the Democratic party once and for all.

[RKP5637]

27. It certainly makes one wonder... like WTF. n/t

[BzaDem]

28. I think he is saying that Republicans will face electoral consequences if they just do nothing.

I.e, no unemployment extensions, government shutdown, no defense authorization, no doc fix, etc.

Right now, they can block all of that because people will blame the Democrats. The question is, will they be able to block that once they control Congress and can be blamed for all of it.

I certainly don't think they'll cooperate on more expansive things like DADT, healthcare, finreg, etc. I don't think Axelrod does either.

[RKP5637]

29. His comment sounded like a defeatist comment IMO. n/t

[jtuck004]

33. Perhaps

I think as long as Obama is president, and if they don't take the Senate, most people will see it as a Democratic administration (or perhaps even if they do take both), with the 'pubs playing a self-rigteous "we have to stop these socialists" role, much as they are today. And maybe his comment was more limited than I thought, though I do wonder if he said that thinking it might actually work that way.

Will make for an interesting 2011...

thank you

[neverforget]

30. They'll cooperate all right: cooperate amongst themselves to starve the gov't

and launch endless investigations. But other than that, I'm sure Utopian bipartisanship is just around the corner with the newly elected right wing wacko Republicans.

[Autumn]

31. You go right on ahead and keep hoping Axelrod.

Clap your hands and Tinkerbell will live too. Not going to fucking happen. Has this guy ever been in politics before? Yeah I know the answer to that.

[AlinPA]

32. Totally screwy. More power will make them less cooperative.

[tavalon]

34. Did Axelrod get hit in the head?

I was hoping we would put that bipartisanship crap to bed already!

[lunasun]

35. Axel dude - you are trippin'

[budkin]

36. What a fucking idiot.

[sabrina 1]

37. Is this man insane, stupid, or what?

Is he smoking something? Maybe he needs a drug test. Assuming of course he is a professional Democrat.

The people Obama surrounded himself will ruin his presidency if he doesn't start getting rid of them and replacing them with some intelligent, thinking people. It's no wonder we've seen the kind of hateful rhetoric towards the people who elected them coming from this WH. Axelrod is a moron and always was.

[democracy1st]

38. Folks this is NOT a true democratic admin!

[Jamastiene]

39. I cannot believe how naive his assumptions are.

Does he really believe that if you put a rat in a box and give it two levers, one that gives treats, one that gives shocks, that it will ever push the lever that gives the shocks again? It will push the lever that gives the treats.

I got news for him. If this strategy worked for them, changing it will be the last thing on their minds.

How can he be that clueless?

[old mark]

40. So I guess the Democratic administration still does not get it?

Are we going to go through 2 more years of one sided "bipartisanship" to make nice with the right?

I had hoped that these guys woke up about that...maybe not yet...


mark

[mmonk]

41. We have our delusional people as well.

[smiley_glad_hands]

42. he was being sarcastic in a rhetorical sense. Eom

[Beacool]

43. Oh yeah, that will make them cooperate.

:eyes:

[hayu_lol]

44. Two years ago, Axelrod was a hero to many here on DU...

they clapped and cheered as he put the specter of a Hillary win to rest for all time.

Why the surprise now? He is what he has always been.

Send him and Arne Duncan to Chicago to help out.

[Beacool]

45. Well, I think that the crew surrounding Obama are nothing more than Chicago political hacks.

Interesting how Axelrod reportedly asked Obama if he could trust Hillary (when Obama was thinking of appointing her as SOS). He didn't seem to have such reservations when years ago he asked Hillary for help regarding his daughter's health problems.

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