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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 07:22 PM Feb 2013

David Shuster: "Obama speech tonight more confrontational with GOP than previously thought..."

@DavidShuster: Obama speech tonight more confrontational with GOP than previously thought. He will blame sequester cuts + econ damage on them. #TAN

@DavidShuster: Now clear Obama sees previous bipartisan gestures as not getting him anywhere. Hardball politics in this speech. Dems will be pleased. #TAN

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David Shuster: "Obama speech tonight more confrontational with GOP than previously thought..." (Original Post) Hissyspit Feb 2013 OP
We can HOPE madokie Feb 2013 #1
I better get some popcorn ready. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #2
Bourbon, too. You'll be thirsty. nt msanthrope Feb 2013 #4
Maybe just a little brandy and a cigar! I'm allergic to hangovers. I need IV's and traction brewens Feb 2013 #31
Well, the Republicans are guilty of that and much much more Berlum Feb 2013 #3
Well good! It's time that the GOP begin operating in the same, fact-driven world as the rest of us. bernynhel Feb 2013 #5
Hopefully they will be irrelevant soon timdog44 Feb 2013 #10
what will replace the dollar? dodgecharger Feb 2013 #23
Love timdog44 Feb 2013 #25
Please let this be true and then go right to the people with it tomorrow libtodeath Feb 2013 #6
I read that it is exactly what he plans...I believe Illinois was one stop. sheshe2 Feb 2013 #21
Sounds great! pacalo Feb 2013 #7
Hardball politics in this speech. Dems will be pleased. Flashmann Feb 2013 #8
I'm just afraid he will offer up the Chained CPI again. MotherPetrie Feb 2013 #9
I heard something about that. Hope what I heard was wrong. AnnieK401 Feb 2013 #11
Please, please, please!! malaise Feb 2013 #12
About effing time! trof Feb 2013 #13
Amen to that. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #18
good. keroro gunsou Feb 2013 #14
Cool! horseshoecrab Feb 2013 #15
Until we have a majority in congress this won't effect much either Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #16
With any luck, this will be laying the groundwork for those midterms. Jackpine Radical Feb 2013 #19
Let's hope so! Stinky The Clown Feb 2013 #17
Truman OldRedneck Feb 2013 #20
I hope that he regards the entirety of the GOP caucus and says: Ian Iam Feb 2013 #22
That would be AWESOME! gateley Feb 2013 #26
Give 'em hell, Barack! gateley Feb 2013 #24
David Shuster donco Feb 2013 #27
I have no idea. He still has contacts. Hissyspit Feb 2013 #34
Lets hope Pres. Obama Tagish_Charlie Feb 2013 #28
Make it so! sheshe2 Feb 2013 #29
Yada yada Blue Palasky Feb 2013 #30
great- Raffi Ella Feb 2013 #32
oh dear me arely staircase Feb 2013 #33
In hindsight, I didn't see much of what Shuster said we could expect. Stinky The Clown Feb 2013 #35

brewens

(13,622 posts)
31. Maybe just a little brandy and a cigar! I'm allergic to hangovers. I need IV's and traction
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 09:32 PM
Feb 2013

if I have more than two drinks!

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
3. Well, the Republicans are guilty of that and much much more
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 07:26 PM
Feb 2013

No doubt they will squeal like greedy 1% PuppetMaster Pigs as the truth is spoken, and pay their core of overpaid chickenhawk propagandists - Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, etc. to attack attack attack America, as usual, and apply their 'talents' to SUCKER the Fox-Watching RepubliProles. As usual. They better hope their rank and file never wake up to how badly the Republicans Eeleete have SUCKERED them to voting against their own interests.

timdog44

(1,388 posts)
10. Hopefully they will be irrelevant soon
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:04 PM
Feb 2013

and we don't have to operate with them at all. Then we can just negotiate amongst ourselves.

sheshe2

(83,925 posts)
21. I read that it is exactly what he plans...I believe Illinois was one stop.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 09:08 PM
Feb 2013

Two others planned...trying to find a link.

Flashmann

(2,140 posts)
8. Hardball politics in this speech. Dems will be pleased.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 07:34 PM
Feb 2013

I'm pleased at the mere prospect....I'll be ecstatic if he actually does it!!!

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
18. Amen to that.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:48 PM
Feb 2013

Like somebody somewhere once said, "Bring it ON!"

Come to think of it, I believe that was a quote from Abraham Lincoln.

horseshoecrab

(944 posts)
15. Cool!
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:32 PM
Feb 2013

Excellent news. Looking forward to this!

Thanks Hissyspit.

And to the wonderful person who gave me a heart...

Puzzledtraveller

(5,937 posts)
16. Until we have a majority in congress this won't effect much either
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:38 PM
Feb 2013

The Republicans are in the scorched earth phase it won't matter what tenor Obama takes in his speech they will seek to obstruct until they are no longer able. The midterms.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
19. With any luck, this will be laying the groundwork for those midterms.
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:49 PM
Feb 2013

Step 1 is to make the Pubbies highly unpopular among the electorate.

 

OldRedneck

(1,397 posts)
20. Truman
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:59 PM
Feb 2013

After Truman's election, the GOP then acted like the GOP today . . . No, No, No!! So . . . Harry got on the train. Truman took trains throughout the country, making stop after stop after stop. At each stop, he made a vintage Truman speech in which he laid into the Republicans.

There's a story . . . if it's not true, it should be . . . that at one stop someone in the crowd shouted "Give 'em hell, Harry!!" To which Truman replied: "I don't have to give 'em hell!! I just tell the truth and they think I'm giving 'em hell!!!"

I hope Obama has been studying Truman.

sheshe2

(83,925 posts)
29. Make it so!
Tue Feb 12, 2013, 09:26 PM
Feb 2013

I firmly believe that he will!!!!!!!!!!! Let's watch a few heads spin tonight!

Thanks, Hissyspit!

Stinky The Clown

(67,819 posts)
35. In hindsight, I didn't see much of what Shuster said we could expect.
Wed Feb 13, 2013, 01:57 PM
Feb 2013

I didn't see as much kissy face as i have in the past, but neither did I see anything near as much laying of blame as I'd liked to have seen.

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