wtf? There's an article in my paper talking about post-election, Obama working w/ GOP

[jillan]

So the Dems lost, and the teabaggers won, investigations are under way - and Susan Page has it all figured out for this administration.

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1. Mr. President, meet the GOP

Confront or cooperate?

During his first two years in office, Obama often acted as if he didn't need a working relationship with congressional Republicans.

2. Broken china at a Tea Party?

The president isn't the only one facing post-election adjustments.
Establishment Republicans will have to accommodate uncompromising newcomers. Some Tea Party champions — including Senate candidates Marco Rubio in Florida, Rand Paul in Kentucky and Mike Lee in Utah — won nominations by vanquishing candidates backed by the GOP leadership. All three now lead in statewide polls.

3. 'The politics of subtraction'
No issue has ignited Tea Party passions more than a conviction that federal spending is out of control.

4. Regulator in chief
By and large, though, without muscular Democratic majorities in Congress Obama will have to turn from negotiating grand deals on Capitol Hill to taking smaller steps on policy by issuing executive orders and regulations.

5. A spate of investigations
Issa already refers to himself as the Obama administration's "annoyer in chief." Among his first targets, according to spokesman Kurt Bardella, will be spending in the government bailouts, the stimulus bill and the new health care law. He wants to investigate problems in mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and look at food safety, too.

Podesta's advice: " 'Isolate' the White House response to the counsel's office and just keep going.

"They're going to inflict a certain amount of pain and annoyance on the White House through the exercise of their investigative function, but the worst thing is for the president to be distracted by that, to have his policy shop distracted by it," he said

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=azcentral&sParam=40891792.story
I know that this originally was written a couple of days ago...but it is in my paper today.

PLEASE!!!!

[Warren Stupidity]

1. See the Democrats are the 'grown ups'.

Who routinely get mugged and curbed stomped by the immature Republicans.

[madmax]

2. We vote

but, 'they' decide ahead of time who will win and how it will play out. They're psychic ya know. :crazy:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. There's a strategy to this. He has to *appear* to be working with them because they'll be more of

them...

However, perhaps Dems are counting on the Repukes' obstruction and will see that happening.

I don't know.

Obama is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

We're toast, either way--win or lose.

It is the Republicans who need to compromise; they already sad they won't!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Actually, they need a good working over.

Typo?

[jillan]

5. Yes, that would definitely make more sense. :)

[spin]

6. If the two parties continue to fight like the Pittsburgh Steelers and

the Cleveland Browns very little will be accomplished in the next two years.

Our country faces a lot of problems and the people we elect chose to play football with those issues rather then actually solving them.

For example, we see a lot of politics being played with the immigration issue. How long do we have to wait for our elected officials to develop a rational and fair immigration policy?

[DemocraticPilgrim]

7. Who else is he going to work with if we send him no friends???..

WE GET IT sure, others not so much he has to work with them whether we like it or not. People not paying attention expect him to do things even if those things turnout out bad. It"s not his fault we had '94 to know better. We have to work on the senate to block a lot of **ap.

[old mark]

8. That article is almost completely bullshit. And the GOP won't win anyway. nt

[aka-chmeee]

9. Obama could learn from Pink Floyd

"Lost for Words" last verse


So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can't win