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steve2470 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:36 AM
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McConnell: Ousting Obama is “Only Way”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/mcconnell-ousting-obama-is-only-way/?partner=rss&emc=rss

Senator Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, said that ousting President Obama is the “only way” to advance the Republican agenda in an impassioned — and confrontational — speech on Thursday.

“If our primary legislative goals are to repeal and replace the health spending bill, to end the bailouts, cut spending and shrink the size and scope of government, the only way to do all these things it is to put someone in the White House who won’t veto any of these things,” Mr. McConnell said in a speech to the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, according to prepared remarks. “We can hope the president will start listening to the electorate after Tuesday’s election. But we can’t plan on it.”

Mr. McConnell faced a barrage of criticism last week for declaring that making Mr. Obama a one-term president would be his party’s top priority if they took the majority. Democrats — and the president himself, who devoted his pre-election weekly national address to the comments — said it was a sign that there would be no compromising with Republicans in charge.

Even though leaders of both parties pledged on Wednesday to work together, Mr. McConnell sounded anything but conciliatory on Thursday and said that Republicans would chip away at the health care bill bit-by-bit until 2012.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:37 AM
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1. Mitch is being unreasonable.
Besides, did he forget he is still MINORITY leader?
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gkhouston Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:39 AM
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2. No, it's not, and your lack of cooperativeness and imagination tells me the Republican
Party is still full of FAIL. (Yeah, I really had to think hard about that one. :rofl:)
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:39 AM
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3. I wonder if the chinless wonder will
recall that he's still the _minority_ leader before or after the next congress is sworn in and he's still not at the center of the table?

I hate this skeevy shit almost as much as the orange crying dude in Congress.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:55 AM
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17. did you mean
the orange crying DRUNK dude in congress?
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:40 AM
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4. unlike our side, these wingnut politicians know how to fight. this
is why they often kick our ass.
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:53 AM
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14. This is not a winning strategy for them, especially if Dems hammer on it and expose it
I think the Dems will, now how to get the message thru the Republican Cable Media.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:54 AM
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16. True, and it will obviously take huge losses before they get it, if ever.
And people like me will pay the price for their lack of fight.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:40 AM
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5. Senator Palpatine needs to take off his fucking robe and get back to work.
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GSLevel9 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:29 PM
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33. lol... nt
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ourbluenation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:41 AM
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6. BRING.IT.ON.
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:45 AM
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7. If you believe GOP pledges to work together
I have the following items for sale;





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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:46 AM
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8. Note to the chinless one: We saw how well it worked last time y'all had control to advance your
Republican agenda. That agenda is EXACTLY what GOT US INTO THIS MESS. Fuck off and take your tea-bagger supporters with you,
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newspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 10:06 PM
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46. yeah, well KO was saying that, I believe it was McConnell
has already had a meeting with the big boys up on wall street-Goldman Sachs and Chase. It seems the boys don't want no stinkin regulations messing with their little schemes--and yeah, they are the ones that got us into this mess--too bad that we have people in this country with very short memories or don't seem to give a rat's ass.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:48 AM
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9. Here's your chance, Harry Reid
If you don't have the power to punish him as head of the Senate, at least respond in kind!

:headbang:
rocktivity
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:48 AM
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10. Having McConnell committed to a loony bin is the only way.
Fuck that brainless closet-case.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:49 AM
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11. Mitch knows that republicans can't deliver on their promises
So he's already making excuses
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:49 AM
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12. I say, throw that man some more rope. Heh.
Keep talking Mitch.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:56 AM
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19. Right, that's the same cleverness that got us where we are. With the anger level in this nation,
and you are talking that way..... :silly:
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 04:12 PM
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42. ? I don't get your point.
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bobbolink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 04:25 PM
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44. I wouldn't expect you to.
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 09:32 PM
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45. passive aggressive much?
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:50 AM
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13. How can anyone think this is a man that can negotiated with in good faith?
:crazy:
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:23 PM
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26. His idea of negotiating is doing it 100% his way
He is such a disgusting creature, very much like Tom Delay.
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barbtries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:53 AM
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15. i hate republicans.
and i hate to hate! dammit, but i do. i hate their tactics, i hate their lies, i hate their greed. the motherfuckers. i hate what they did to this country and what they now plan to do. i hate 'em.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:56 AM
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18. Hey Mitch- the Democrats still control your chamber
you fucking loser.

Who the hell does he think he is?
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baldingrockwarlord2 Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 11:57 AM
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20. Why reach across the aisle to THIS kind of B.S.?
I like President Obama. I voted for him. I want him to succeed. I am disappointed with how things have turned out for him and the country. I stand behind everything that he has done so far, but am disappointed that he just does not get the fact that his opposition in Washington and throughout the country don’t want to work together with him for anything, and wish for and work for his failure even at the expense of America suffering more. Mitch McConnell has said he only wants to work toward President Obama not getting a second term, in essence the Rush Limbaugh “I hope he fails” strategy. Why should he continue to reach out to these people? It is abundantly clear they have no intention of working with him. My opinion is: If the repukes think Obama “rammed health care down their throats” that the President should have rammed more things down their throats and really give them something to complain about. Do you think that anyone would have ever been allowed to carry sidearms into a rally or town hall with Bush/Cheney or brandish them in a parade? Why should it be ok now?

If our President, who I proudly voted for and do want to succeed does not grow a pair of balls soon and stand up to the opposition, I would like for someone else to run against him in the primary. I want the country to move forward more than I care about how and who is in the White House. I voted for the hope and change and was damned proud of my vote, who it was for and what it stood for. I still like this President as a person, but I admit-I have total buyer’s remorse for how this has worked out-unless he starts busting some bold moves and stands up to the rethuggery and teajadists. I'd rather not witness him being humiliated by these ass hats on a daily basis while America continues to circle the drain. Part of the hope and change would have been to NOT take impeachment off the table prior to Obama's arrival and also to investigate and prosecute any/all of the war crimes of BushCo. The righties make a big deal of how far forward the President "bows down" to other foreign dignitaries. I am more angry with how he seems to capitulate and bend over for the repukes or not fight back. I'm not buying this whole "he's playing 3d chess while they are playing checkers" B.S. It's not working.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:01 PM
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21. Hey, do you all think Obama is going to get tired of being pushed around?
And finally release some of the shit that he's been helping bury from the last administration?
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baldingrockwarlord2 Donating Member (145 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:12 PM
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23. I wish, but sadly no I don't.
Why only now? Honestly I have given up on him having the good sense to fight back against these jokers. I voted for him thinking he would fight for us but it never happened. And I am sickened every day that I have to see a witchdoctor or joker poster or Hitler mustache on my President or hear the attacks from those on the right. There certainly seems to be some truth in what the right says about the left being "weak-kneed" etc... They can continue to say and do and bully as much as they want, and we(the left)let it happen. I am becoming ashamed to be a Democrat and a liberal if it means losing, not moving forward and being bullied and ridiculed and those we vote for don't fight back. Extremely upset down here in Florida right now for Grayson's loss even though he's not in my district, and for all the republican victories.

If the President does have shit that he's been helping bury from the last administration, he ought to lay it out on the table now.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:29 PM
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34. I think that those of us in Florida need to begin a support group.
It's tricky, because you don't want moles coming into the group. So I'm not sure how one goes about collecting like-minded souls.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:26 PM
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29. If and when Obama gets a clue that these Republicans are extremist
and will NOT negotiate, then he will refuse to be pushed around and veto all the shit these radical right extremists will put in bills.
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alcibiades_mystery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:02 PM
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22. Don't worry, mMitch...plenty of so-called progressives have your back!
:eyes:
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daa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:17 PM
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24. Tax cuts for the rich says Obama point set match nt
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:21 PM
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25. You think DU cares? nt
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MiniMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:25 PM
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27. How much money are you going to waste on investigations?
Don't get too comfortable Mitch, Boehner is going to blow it for you and nothing is going to get done. And in 2 years, it will be vote out the bums time again.
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:25 PM
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28. Shut up Mitch, you're still the minority leader.
Damned upstarts.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:28 PM
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30. Yeah, but he thinks he's Master of the Universe along with his buddies
the extremist right
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jaxx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:33 PM
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36. He's delusional.
Plus he doesn't have a chin.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:45 PM
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37. Yeah, that chin thing... a chinless wonder.
You know what, though? I think he isn't delusional. He is like Tom Delay, the "Hammer" or the "Exterminator" and whatever other names Delay got while in the House. All of these "top" Republicans want to cut every social safety net program they can but they couldn't say that during the election process. They used only their code words of "cut taxes" and a good proportion of the electorate bought into it. There's no reason a 75 year old would want Social Security, Medicare, etc., cut. But if you phrase it as "cut taxes" the people buy into it.
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:28 PM
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31. Oh bullshit. n/t
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SargeUNN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:28 PM
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32. He will have plenty of help from the left
we certainly will keep not supporting, not voting and feeding the right to get them back into power. We don't seem to realize we can disagree with the President and still support him. Either he does everything or close to everything or we want nothing. Disagree if you want, that is your right, but we need to realize if we don't stop helping the right with our actions, we are giving them power.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:30 PM
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35. Mitch with all that corporate money you failed to oust Harry Reid
Edited on Thu Nov-04-10 12:30 PM by malaise
go Cheney yourself

sp.
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:46 PM
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38. Ousting McConnell is the only way n/t
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:48 PM
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39. So he's saying they won't even try to do anything for two years? n/t
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thecrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:50 PM
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40. Wouldn't he then have President Biden to contend with?
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me b zola Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 12:51 PM
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41. Hey, I've seen this movie before!
Scene 1: Democrats elect a president they think will govern according to the bedrock principles of their party: The New Deal, regulating powerful interests so that they don't unfairly hurt/burden average people, civil liberties, and protection of the environment.

Scene 2: The opposition party becomes unhinged from the very beginning. Using their control of the media, they get their followers to become frenzied with wild accusations. No one is paying attention to issues because the repubs have successfully alters people's perceptions of reality, so much so that some idiot flew his plane into the White House to protest.

Scene 3: Dems loose the House during the midterms. Repubs continue pushing paranoid delusional fantasies to keep everyone, including the media, worked up over nothing. Now even Democratic voters are not paying close attention to policies because their every waking moment is spent defending the president from the wildly delusional accusations and assaults.

Scene 4: Democratic president then goes about governing from the right: joins the war on the poor, repeals Glass-Steagall Act, pushes through NAFTA.



I've seen this play before, I don't want to go through it again. But alas, here we go.

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CBR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-04-10 04:12 PM
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43. Sentiment seems to be a popular one...
oust Obama and our dreams will come true!
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