Obama promises more outreach to GOP

[brentspeak]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/11/30/obama.gop.bipartisan/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Obama promises more outreach to GOP

From Ed Henry, CNN
November 30, 2010 2:13 p.m. EST

Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama told GOP leaders behind closed doors Tuesday that he had failed to reach across party lines enough during his first two years in office, a senior administration official told CNN.

He promised to do a better job of bipartisan outreach in the days ahead, the official added.

"The president said he had to do better, and the president is ready to do his part," the official said.

The list of attendees at Obama's long-awaited post-election meeting with the newly empowered congressional Republicans included Vice President Joe Biden, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader John Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

[villager]

1. how completely fucking disgusting

n/t

[Frances]

2. I am very disappointed

because Obama is going to be a one-term president if he fails to stand up for his base.

[Clio the Leo]

4. There's a reason why he's the most popular guy in DC...

.... and, like it or not, it's not because he's a fire-breathing liberal.

Anyway, Obama has more "bases" than the Department of the Defense.

[villager]

11. the most popular guy in DC? I guess that's why he ran roughshod over the GOP last session...

n/t

[Clio the Leo]

12. 'cause that's what the American people want...

.... their partisans to run rough shod over each other.

[villager]

13. Clearly, the midterm elections show they reward Democratic acquiesence,

fecklessness, and lack of vision!

[Clio the Leo]

16. CLEARLY only 25% on midterm voters said votes were against the President...

.... 45% saying he was not a factor in their vote at all.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201009190006


And the Obama voters who stayed home ... were the moderates.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=433&topic_id=531846

[villager]

20. so you measure success by losing the House, and watering down every piece of legislation

...in advance?

With "succeses" like that, who needs failures!?

[Clio the Leo]

21. I measure success by the most progressive legislative session of Congress in our lifetimes..

... despite the fact that there weren't 60 progressive votes in the Senate and that almost 50 of the Dems in the House represented districts who voted for John McCain.

The anger is misguided, the perception of reality is skewed, and the apparent understanding of how a bill works its way through Congress could use a training session with Bill from Schoolhouse Rock.

Either way, I wish you all the success in the world electing Michael Moore and his hat as the 45th President of the United States.

[villager]

22. "the anger is misguided" indeed

...and might better be used by some to hold our elected leaders accountable to their voters.

For starters.

[Clio the Leo]

28. Then do it ..... find someone to run against Obama in '12....

but unless you want President John Thune, make sure they can win the whole ball game. .... Find a more progressive Democrat in Nebraska who can beat Ben Nelson ... or in North Carolina that can beat Heath Shuler (and any of the Republicans.)

Let me know how that goes.

[Dr.Phool]

23. What? are you 12 years old?

Not a very long lifetime.

[laughingliberal]

24. Oh, no doubt the anger's misguided. I just read where the President will be delaying his vacation...

in Hawaii to oversee the capitulation on the tax cuts. Can't be jetting off to Hawaii without making sure the billionaires are taken care of.

[saracat]

32. " Democrats" stayed home. Period. And that is the awful truth.

And the President is not "popular" with either side in DC. The GOP despises him and insists he be painted as a socialist, no matter how he kisses their butt and his own base thinks he is an appeaser. He has managed to unite both factions against him. Many folks in his own office are aware of that fact.

[CoffeeCat]

3. If Obama reaches any more...

...toward the Republicans, he'll have his hands up Bohner's ass.

[DesertFlower]

5. mr. president. stop trying. they don't

like you and they don't want to work with you.

[Speck Tater]

6. Because it worked so well last time.

:sarcasm:

[tblue]

14. What was that definition of insanity again?

Egad!

[awoke_in_2003]

18. and the time before that...

and the time before that, etc.

[kysrsoze]

7. I just want to repeatedly smash my head on a table. PLEASE tell me he realizes they want to fuck him

This is like Groundhog Day. What happened to the Bully Pulpit? What happened to calling bullshit? Has Obama noticed Repubs NEVER admit to doing anything wrong? At this point, I hope he gets primaried.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. Dear Barack, you have to ditch the Republicans - they don't matter!

they are the scourge of society. Why wouold you bother with these creatures of greed?

[Harry Monroe]

9. Oh,. for fucksakes

Am I reading the Onion here? What a spineless wimp!! Fuck it, I'm throwing in the towel. If we don't put up a candidate with a spine in '12, I'm voting 3rd party.

[niyad]

10. he didn't reach across the aisle ENOUGH? we got sold down the river at nearly every single turn,

the repukes were allowed to act as if THEY were in charge. un-friggen'believable.

[tblue]

15. Shush now. You're 'whining.'

:sarcasm: :banghead:

[grumgrum]

17. Deliverance put it best: "Squeal Piggy...squeal like a pig"

[classysassy]

19. He must be jocking

[cornermouse]

25. Obama, himself, has done everything he can to

cultivate the republican mantra that democratic party = weak people who give in at the first hint of obstruction. That's why the republicans have felt free to insult him since the election.

[southernyankeebelle]

26. If Obama reaches any further he'll be a damn republican.

[rasputin1952]

27. The opportunity was thee to crush the GOP into dust...

now they have power in the House.

Sorry mr. President, reaching out to rabid weasels will only ensure serious painful injury...:(

[BlueJac]

29. Maybe becoming a Republican can help..........n/t

[MissDeeds]

30. Pathetic

He may as well switch parties and be done with it.


:puke:

[tinrobot]

31. Please tell me this is an Onion article.