"Why it’s difficult for Obama to “beat” the GOP"

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Why it’s difficult for Obama to “beat” the GOP

Posted by Jamelle Bouie at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/05/02/why-its-difficult-for-obama-to-beat-the-gop/

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The Republican National Committee has released an ad — called “The First 100 Days” — which criticizes Obama on the failure of his legislative agenda. Including gun control. It features a still black and white photo of Obama as he embraces the mother of a Sandy Hook victim. The idea is that Obama is to blame for failing the Sandy Hook families — even though Republicans are the ones who killed the gun control proposals they wanted with a filibuster.

And this isn’t even the first time Republicans have attacked Obama for failing to overcome their opposition. Last year, for instance, Mitt Romney hit Obama for his inaction on the economy, ignoring the extent to which Republicans have blocked action — but it’s the most egregious. And it’s of a piece with the other GOP tactic of proposing policies — like Medicare and Social Security cuts, to use a recent example—and attacking Obama when he adopts them as his own.

What’s really happening here, as the Daily Beast’s Michael Tomasky writes, is that the Republican Party has departed from traditional norms of political behavior. He notes that the GOP has become “a radical oppositionalist faction, way beyond the normal American parameters both in terms of ideology and tactics.”

In other words, the GOP doesn’t behave like a party should — it isn’t trying to govern, and it doesn’t have a particular agenda. It opposes Barack Obama’s presence in the White House, and will do anything — kill its own proposals, hold the economy hostage — to damage his standing with the public. How do you bend a party to your will when it has decided that its only self-interested course of action is to deny you all cooperation at all costs?



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[Xipe Totec]

1. Point of Order - Obama is no longer running for public office nt

[MarianJack]

2. As another DUer posted very recently,...

...Obama is the President, not the "Asshole Whisperer".

PEACE!

[applegrove]

3. LOL!

[msongs]

4. it's what happens when you don't fight back against bullies, they control the agenda n t

[russspeakeasy]

6. +1000

[madrchsod]

5. johnson had mike mansfield and liberal republicans......

obama has harry reid and the worse crop of republicans since the dust bowl days of the 1930`s.

as much as i dislike what he`s doing i must admit he`s doing the best he can with what he has. the elections next year is going to either break this country or restore it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Obama is beating the GOP

beating them to oblivion