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kentuck

(111,110 posts) Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:24 PM Jun 2012

From Day One

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/06/15/from-day-one.html

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They were not necessarily the party's official leaders, but they were the emotional leaders of the new breed--Jim DeMint, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy--which is to say, the cohort to whom many others were looking for leadership; indeed, if you know anything about Mitch McConnell, to whom the leadership was looking for leadership. They talked for four hours about what their posture should be.

They agreed that night: oppose everything in completely unity. Show, Draper writes, "united and unyielding opposition to the president's economic policies."

So, before President Obama had proposed a single idea, the Republicans had already decided that they would oppose everything he did. Didn't matter what it was. Look his plans over and see where we might be able to work together? Are you kidding?

Remember, this is the middle of a near-depression. The country lost around 800,000 jobs that very month. Every economic indicator was in the toilet and quickly rushing down into the sewer. The country was at the rock-bottom point of its worst economic crisis in the lifetimes of every one of the men in that room.

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From Day One (Original Post) kentuck Jun 2012 OP

This is treason warrior1 Jun 2012 #1

The very least we could expect... kentuck Jun 2012 #2

They didn't even wait until the Inaugural Ball on Day One to start up. I remember the desperation of freshwest Jun 2012 #9

sadly, the news outlets the right supports will never let this be known. spanone Jun 2012 #3

Thanks to the Teahadii, the Republican leadership has lost all control. DCKit Jun 2012 #4

If people have not heard this yet, they need to. But the msm will never touch it. geckosfeet Jun 2012 #5

Their allegiance is to an ideology, not to the nation aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #6

What would you call treason? kentuck Jun 2012 #7

Too bad the Dem's didn't do this Politicalboi Jun 2012 #8

warrior1

(12,325 posts)

1. This is treason

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:25 PM

Jun 2012

Period.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)

2. The very least we could expect...

Reply to warrior1 (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:30 PM

Jun 2012

...would be that every voter in America know this fact. It is up to the media to tell the truth.

Also, this was after the people gave Obama and the Democratic Party a landslide victory. They said they wanted the new President to try and fix the dangerous crisis facing our country. The Republicans said "Screw you!" to this large majority of Americans.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)

9. They didn't even wait until the Inaugural Ball on Day One to start up. I remember the desperation of

Reply to kentuck (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 05:08 PM

Jun 2012

The GOP in the blogosphere and elsewhere about how Roberts misread the oath. Obama corrected him as the did it, then had him do it again. It was 'all Obama's fault' even though proven Robert read it wrong and Obama was right.

But really, Obama was called illegitimate and anti-American before that fake controversy, from the summer of 2008 when thousands of copies of Obsession were mailed anonymously to people's homes in swing states.

It's only gone downhill from there.

spanone

(135,897 posts)

3. sadly, the news outlets the right supports will never let this be known.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:31 PM

Jun 2012

DCKit

(18,541 posts)

4. Thanks to the Teahadii, the Republican leadership has lost all control.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:37 PM

Jun 2012

Even chinless Mitch and the orange man were to devise a more coordinated effort against President Obama and the Democratic Senate, they wouldn't stand a chance. Every one of the new guys wants to be the star of the party (Ryan and Cantor, especially), and they don't know how to do it without being destructive.

They's herdin' cats up on The Hill.

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)

5. If people have not heard this yet, they need to. But the msm will never touch it.

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:47 PM

Jun 2012

It makes their sweethearts look like the treasonous bastards that they are.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)

6. Their allegiance is to an ideology, not to the nation

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 01:47 PM

Jun 2012

They're international corporatists. Their way of thinking is more aligned with the 1% of other countries than the working class of the U.S. During the Cold War you heard a lot about "unAmerican" activities associated with international communism. The heads of the modern Republican Party have been bought by the international 1% and are at the service of unAmerican international corporatism.

kentuck

(111,110 posts)

7. What would you call treason?

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 02:03 PM

Jun 2012

And what would you call these actions by the Republicans? Just politics? It is the job of the opposition to oppose? If that is so, what is the job of the majority, to govern? We know it is possible to gum up the entire workings of government. Does that mean it is OK to do? The people threw the Republicans out on their asses in 2008. They had failed miserably, with a terrorist attack on the WTC and the Pentagon and the collapse of our economy and our markets under their watch. What did they expect the people to do? Give them another four years to see if they could clean up their mess?

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)

8. Too bad the Dem's didn't do this

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 03:33 PM

Jun 2012

In 2000. After the theft of the election, they would of had a good reason to oppose everything he did. Bush wasn't qualified to be President, and not smart enough either.

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