dagblog - Comments for "Ok, GOP, Let’s Talk About Compromise"

AmiBlue's right, they

Jamie Friedland — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:19:47 +0000

AmiBlue's right, they definitely have this in the works. Popcorn it is. ...and a keyboard.

I agree with Beetlejuice on

Jamie Friedland — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:15:54 +0000

I agree with Beetlejuice on this. Kgb, you make a good point and I'm frustrated that we didn't switch tactics sooner, but I think after that campaign Obama/Dems had to at least give it a shot. How long they needed to try it the real question and for that we can prob blame Dems, but they had to try.

Like DanK saidRemember Terry

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:32:18 +0000

In reply to I'd really get out the

Like DanK said

Remember Terry Schiavo. Republican wingers in power have proven they are perfectly capable of hanging themselves in nooses of their own creation.

Lookie who I just found on google news, feeling left out--there was a giant wingnut party for the last year and he was too busy to attend:

DeLay sees larger political role after trial
Ex-lawmaker wishes he had been part of these elections

He just can't go for the

Ramona — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:35:24 +0000

In reply to Along the lines of my comment

He just can't go for the jugular; it's just not in his makeup, I guess. He's still trying to convince, as if he's in a courtroom making a case in front of judge and jury. Maybe he thought Rahm would be the bad cop and he wouldn't ever have to get his hands dirty. What he needs to do is listen to someone like Elizabeth Warren. She's a tiger on a velvet cushion. Lookin good but dangerous as hell when riled.

Thanks for the congrats, kgb. Mighty nice of you.

Along the lines of my comment

kgb999 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:51:48 +0000

In reply to The point is, the next two

Along the lines of my comment to Betlejuice upthread. The GOP has come out and loudly proclaimed that they have no intention of compromising. McConnell has said thier primary goal is to destroy Obama before 2012. I don't see how Democrats can just keep trying to pretend reality is something it's not.

I don't get it. I sure hope, like you, that it was just a rote statement of graciousness in defeat. But I can't shake the sinking feeling in my gut that he's surrounded himself with people who are validating the basic methodology that has gotten us to this point in the first place.

(Oh, congrats on your elevation to DagBlogess!)

You know. I blame Democrats

kgb999 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:44:18 +0000

In reply to I was annoyed when both

You know. I blame Democrats for all of that, not Republicans. The Republicans came out and announced they intended to do exactly what they did. They held a press conference, went on the pundit circuit ... everything.They said their definition of "compromise" was Democrats doing exactly what Republicans want. Period.

Sure their announced intentions totally sucked, but it's not like they pretended they'd compromise and then did a Lucy with the football every time. It's like if Lucy sat in her house and held the footbal saying "I'll never let you kick this!" and Charlie Brown went alone out into the field and barreled forward at full steam aiming for where he wished the football might be and swiped at thin air. That makes him a victim of his own stupidity not of a wily adversary.

Here is a good place as any

kgb999 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:34:07 +0000

In reply to Hi Stilli, will be writing

Here is a good place as any to stress - Bohner isn't speaker yet. Pelosi holds the Gavel until January.

Their time is short, not at an end. What the Democrats do with this last moment of complete control will be a big indicator of the party actually stands for. Hopefully the legislators rise to tell Obama he can take his "centrist compromise" baloney and shove it where the doesn't shine - American politics is war, not beanbag. If they can't do that, the party is all but useless IMO.

I'd really get out the

mageduley — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:31:05 +0000

In reply to Jamie, according to Marc

I'd really get out the popcorn if they tried to have hearings on the "fraudulent science" of human evolution. I'd love to see another Dover like smackdown of rightwing stupidity on a national scale.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/intelligent-design-trial.html

Jamie, according to Marc

AmiBlue — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:17:45 +0000

In reply to Ok, GOP, Let’s Talk About Compromise

Jamie, according to Marc Ambinder, the republicans plan to initiate hearings on the "scientific fraud" known as Global Warming. It's payback time for all that money the oil magnates provided through the CofC. It could be countered in the Senate, of course, if there were any democrats in the Senate who had a spine, but there aren't.

"those muslins will see any

'they want to destroy our freedoms' — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:36:55 +0000

In reply to Ok, GOP, Let’s Talk About Compromise

"those muslins will see any sign of peacemeaking as weakness!" (i detect a parallel. repugs treat bipartisan attempts as "weakness".)