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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the HELL has OBAMA
"contributed to the culture of divisiveness"?
By being black and getting elected President?
(apparently Rubio said something to that effect and MSNBC just reported it)
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)malaise
(269,187 posts)Fuck Rubio and the rest of them
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama
During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.
The disclosures described as "appalling and sad" by Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod undermine Republican claims that the president alone is to blame for the partisan deadlock in Washington.
A detailed account of who was present at the dinner on that January 20 night and the plan they worked out to bring down Obama is provided by Robert Draper in 'Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives', published this week.
In his book, Draper opens with the heady atmosphere in Washington on the days running up to the inauguration and the day itself, which attracted 1.8 million to the mall to witness Obama being sworn in as America's first black president.
Those numbers contributed to a growing sense of unease among Republicans as much the defeat in the White House race the previous November. The 15 Republicans were in a sombre mood as they gathered at the Caucus Room in Washington, an upscale restaurant where a New York strip steak costs $51.
Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future and failed presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations.
underpants
(182,904 posts)MH1
(17,608 posts)for being "divisive".
Or in other words of earlier times (but probably still in private for some republicans), for having the gall to be "an uppity ******". For not "knowing his place".
I am so tired of this shit.
mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)Trump!
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I thought they were there, although Boner's brain was probably anesthetized by the time they got to the steak.
Just curious.
malaise
(269,187 posts)McConnell made his comment at the Heritage Foundation
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Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)spew his hatred of Obama? What an evil man.
underpants
(182,904 posts)They've been saying that since day one basically. The Teabaggers were their created evidence. Remember the "beer summit"? That never happened in their world.
gordianot
(15,245 posts)He may have just noticed President Obama has a darker skin tone or is miffed he is going the way of Scotty Walker and Bobby Jindal. First Republican failure instinct blame someone else, just say Obama.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)when she blamed Obama for her son punching his girlfriend in the face, it exposed the conservatives' impulse to blame Obama for their own failings.
treestar
(82,383 posts)McConnell And Ryan have nothing to do with it.
democrattotheend
(11,607 posts)"By being black and getting elected President?"
That's exactly how he has been divisive and laid the seeds for Trump.
deaniac21
(6,747 posts)Skittles
(153,199 posts)repukes think that because they became hysterical when Obama was elected that he is somehow to blame
JHB
(37,162 posts)His being black is definitely a factor, but they would be doing basically the same against Hillary if she had won in 08, and it's really just an extension of the playbook they developed during Bill Clinton's administration: Democrats will be illegitimized at every turn.
Macattack1
(34 posts)when he got elected, there was a feeling of "coming together" that swept the nation..I remember it, I felt it..so didn't a lot of white people, who voted for him...but something has definitely gone wrong..