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There's a reason they're going after Bernie
Down Memory lane
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.
world wide wally
(21,738 posts)We are the ONLY country on Earth that is dysfunctional by choice
malaise
(268,693 posts)making America great again - code for that black man is not legitimate.
former9thward
(31,935 posts)It has had 64 governments since WW II.
http://www.rogerdarlington.me.uk/Italianpoliticalsystem.html
napkinz
(17,199 posts)As Thom Hartmann says, "I don't know why this isn't one of the biggest stories in America."