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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Why it’s difficult for Obama to “beat” the GOP"
Why its difficult for Obama to beat the GOPPosted by Jamelle Bouie at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/02/why-its-difficult-for-obama-to-beat-the-gop/
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The Republican National Committee has released an ad called The First 100 Days which criticizes Obama on the failure of his legislative agenda. Including gun control. It features a still black and white photo of Obama as he embraces the mother of a Sandy Hook victim. The idea is that Obama is to blame for failing the Sandy Hook families even though Republicans are the ones who killed the gun control proposals they wanted with a filibuster.
And this isnt even the first time Republicans have attacked Obama for failing to overcome their opposition. Last year, for instance, Mitt Romney hit Obama for his inaction on the economy, ignoring the extent to which Republicans have blocked action but its the most egregious. And its of a piece with the other GOP tactic of proposing policies like Medicare and Social Security cuts, to use a recent exampleand attacking Obama when he adopts them as his own.
Whats really happening here, as the Daily Beasts Michael Tomasky writes, is that the Republican Party has departed from traditional norms of political behavior. He notes that the GOP has become a radical oppositionalist faction, way beyond the normal American parameters both in terms of ideology and tactics.
In other words, the GOP doesnt behave like a party should it isnt trying to govern, and it doesnt have a particular agenda. It opposes Barack Obamas presence in the White House, and will do anything kill its own proposals, hold the economy hostage to damage his standing with the public. How do you bend a party to your will when it has decided that its only self-interested course of action is to deny you all cooperation at all costs?
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"Why it’s difficult for Obama to “beat” the GOP" (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2013
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)1. Point of Order - Obama is no longer running for public office nt
MarianJack
(10,237 posts)2. As another DUer posted very recently,...
...Obama is the President, not the "Asshole Whisperer".
PEACE!
applegrove
(118,685 posts)3. LOL!
msongs
(67,417 posts)4. it's what happens when you don't fight back against bullies, they control the agenda n t
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)5. johnson had mike mansfield and liberal republicans......
obama has harry reid and the worse crop of republicans since the dust bowl days of the 1930`s.
as much as i dislike what he`s doing i must admit he`s doing the best he can with what he has. the elections next year is going to either break this country or restore it.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)7. Obama is beating the GOP
beating them to oblivion