"And When Has Obama Ever Worked With Republicans? Oops"

"And When Has Obama Ever Worked With Republicans? Oops"

By David Nather | June 26, 2008 1:48 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)


Republican Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas learned a lesson today that other John McCain surrogates might be wise to learn: Before you say Barack Obama never worked across the aisle, make sure he never worked with, for example, you.

On a McCain campaign conference call with reporters this morning, Brownback — who was briefly one of McCain’s rivals for the Republican nomination — said Obama was all talk and no action when it came to working across the aisle.

“John McCain’s a maverick. He’s fought for a bipartisan fashion,” Brownback said. “I think that the biggest thing I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a willingness, aggressiveness, to talk bipartisan and yet to vote the hard left — most liberal member of the United States Senate.”

So Obama’s rapid-response team quickly fired off an e-mail listing the projects on which he worked with Brownback. They include a Brownback bill that authorized sanctions against people who were involved with the genocide in Darfur, a version of which became law in 2006. They also teamed up on an Obama bill that required the administration to provide humanitarian relief and other aid to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Brownback also co-sponsored Obama’s bill to impose sanctions against Iran. And the two were involved — though not the principal players — in the 2006 immigration overhaul effort that McCain worked on with Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.

more...:D

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/beyond/2008/06/and-when-has-obama-ever-worked.html

Brownback to begin with so hopefully his whining isn't going to get any National play either.

to get it all over the internet and pass it on to whomever we can.

temporary memory loss? Or something worse?

lying. :hi:

Policy Adrift on Darfur

By Barack Obama and Sam Brownback

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/26/AR2005122600547.html

:hi:

:)

I love Obama's team. Quick and lethal.

:kick:

Doesn't he get it that those shitstains will call him "hard left" no matter what he does?

He's listening to corporatist DLC hacks who need to be told to stuff it.