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babylonsister

(171,072 posts)
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 11:18 AM Nov 2014

Republicans Demand Return of Passive Obama


November 14, 2014
Republicans Demand Return of Passive Obama


Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY


WASHINGTON, D.C. —Congressional Republicans on Friday expressed outrage at the new leadership style that President Obama has demonstrated in the aftermath of the midterm elections, and demanded a return of the “passive and unassertive Obama to which we have grown accustomed.”

In a joint statement, House Speaker John Boehner and his counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accused Obama of “engaging in a flagrant display of leadership that we find deeply offensive.”

“For the past six years, we have enjoyed a President who has been conciliatory and acquiescent to the point of emasculation,” Boehner said. “We want that President back.”

McConnell threatened that if Obama does not return to his weak and ineffectual ways at once, “he will face the prospect of being a two-term President.”

At the White House, the President did not respond to the Republicans’ remarks, telling reporters that he planned to work through the weekend raising the minimum wage, granting amnesty to immigrants, and legalizing marijuana.


































By Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republicans-demand-return-passive-obama
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Republicans Demand Return of Passive Obama (Original Post) babylonsister Nov 2014 OP
Funny, but not very removed from reality. MoonRiver Nov 2014 #1
He will remain calm, it will continue to drive them mad, they will continue to insult him and Fred Sanders Nov 2014 #2
The President has been presented with an awesome opportunity MoonRiver Nov 2014 #3
Really? Savannahmann Nov 2014 #15
I love good satire Gothmog Nov 2014 #4
LOL jwirr Nov 2014 #5
Hopefully never again will we elect a President ... DrBulldog Nov 2014 #6
Yawn. Our perceptions, and your reality, babylonsister Nov 2014 #9
So sad that this is funny Android3.14 Nov 2014 #7
Yea, damn, we didn't babylonsister Nov 2014 #10
My standard of a good President is more than simply not being Bush Android3.14 Nov 2014 #12
I disagree.. there was always a lot going behind the scenes that most had no clue.. the President Cha Nov 2014 #11
BS Android3.14 Nov 2014 #13
BS to you too then..if that's the way you want to play it. Cha Nov 2014 #14
K&R napkinz Nov 2014 #8

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
1. Funny, but not very removed from reality.
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 11:21 AM
Nov 2014

The President has nothing to lose at this point. He needs to sock it to those Thugs!

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. He will remain calm, it will continue to drive them mad, they will continue to insult him and
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 11:40 AM
Nov 2014

threaten him with "burning", the GOP and their media enablers will continue to insist that the abuser Republicans are the victims and Obama the abuser, Obama will remain calm but is now free to use the bully pulpit now that all the science and fact deniers are fully exposed, and soon enough now the truth is going to hit Americans square in the face.

The Republicans are insane, the media is their bitch and the only adult left in the room thankfully occupies the White House.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
3. The President has been presented with an awesome opportunity
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 12:01 PM
Nov 2014

to do the correct thing, with few to no repercussions. If they try to impeach him, which I suspect they will, their behavior will come across as the ultimate clown circus, just in time for the traditional GOP primary clown car.

 

Savannahmann

(3,891 posts)
15. Really?
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 07:57 PM
Nov 2014

Awsome plan. Unpopular President does even more unpopular things, and the Democratic Party wins the booby prize in the next election when we are celebrating the election of a Democratic Animal Control Supervisor, until we find out it was a typo.

Seriously, take the next step. Start with Immigration Reform. 57% of the people say they support Congressional Action on Immigration. However, only 20% support the President taking Unilateral Executive Action.

So President Obama's favorability rating, currently hovering on the basement stairs at an anemic 40%, would drop how far through the Basement when he does do his huge unilateral action?

Well, at least the people see the Republicans as awful, or not. Republicans currently have a higher favorability/support level than Democrats. So how does the President socking it to the more popular thugs make us any headway we can hope to sustain?

Now, if you want to see the death of the Democratic Party for the next Generation, then by all means, full speed ahead and fuck the Republicans. Now, if by any chance you want to win some seats, perhaps the White House in 2016, then you need to stop thinking with your emotions, and start taking a long hard look at what is going on. Because the course President Obama appears to have us on, ends up with him being considered by Historians as one of the worst Presidents in the last Century, and Rand Paul in the White House, with a Republican Senate, and House. Now, I'm not in favor of that, but if the group says we have to show the Republicans we mean business and full speed ahead into the iceberg aboard the titanic for the second time, then I guess we'll all be drinking quite heavily on election night 2016.

babylonsister

(171,072 posts)
9. Yawn. Our perceptions, and your reality,
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 06:47 PM
Nov 2014

are quite different. He's been busy in case you hadn't noticed.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
7. So sad that this is funny
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 01:54 PM
Nov 2014

The only reason we find it funny is because he truly has been “...a President who has been conciliatory and acquiescent to the point of emasculation."

babylonsister

(171,072 posts)
10. Yea, damn, we didn't
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 06:49 PM
Nov 2014

get a bull in a china shop like idiot son. And damn, he didn't start any illegal wars and shit.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
12. My standard of a good President is more than simply not being Bush
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 07:08 PM
Nov 2014

But we can certainly add those to the list of things he didn't do.

No wonder we lost this election.

Cha

(297,323 posts)
11. I disagree.. there was always a lot going behind the scenes that most had no clue.. the President
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 06:53 PM
Nov 2014

has his style and others have theirs.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
13. BS
Sat Nov 15, 2014, 07:10 PM
Nov 2014

Write up there with keeping the powder dry, seven dimensional chess, and all the other BS that is about as useless.

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