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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQuestion about President Obama taking all or even some of the blame for bad relationship
with Congress.
How can anyone blame the President when, before he was sworn in, the GOP was making secret packs among themselves to obstruct any and everything he wanted to do and to work toward making him a one-term President?
It seems to me the weight of the dysfunction of the legislative bodies and the President rests totally on the them. He always said he was willing to listening negotiate...and he did much to the chagrin of many on the left.
His could never be a "failed" Presidency. It has been since Mr. Obama came into office a failed Congress and a failed electorate for their part in not supporting the President by voting the bastards out!
lapfog_1
(29,204 posts)all of them, all of their so-called leaders, the billionaire class that funds them and their lies, and their stupid and uneducated "deplorable" supporters.
Never mind the long list of complaints I have about the needless wars, trillions of dollars of losses, the lack of investment into America, the willful ignorance of global warming... I could go on for paragraphs.
Never mind all of that.
They have put forth, as a serious candidate for president, one Donald J. Trump.
For this they should be condemned to eternal torture that many of them imagine is reserved for sinners in the afterlife.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)a thousandfold.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)It would be nice if they realized the change they need is to get rid of the Republican Congress and Senate and elect Hillary.
That way, the Dems would control all 3 branches and they would finally see some progress in this country.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-republicans-plan-for-the-new-president/
The room was filled. It was a whos who of ranking members who had at one point been committee chairmen, or in the majority, who now wondered out loud whether they were in the permanent minority, Frank Luntz, who organized the event, told FRONTLINE.
Among them were Senate power brokers Jim DeMint, Jon Kyl and Tom Coburn, and conservative congressmen Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan.
After three hours of strategizing, they decided they needed to fight Obama on everything. The new president had no idea what the Republicans were planning.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/6/8/1098434/-Eric-Cantor-Paul-Ryan-Kevin-McCarthy-Plot-To-Sabotage-US-Economy-with-Frank-Luntz
In Robert Draper's book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives" Draper wrote that during a four hour, "invitation only" meeting with GOP Hate-Propaganda Minister, Frank Luntz, the below listed Senior GOP Law Writers literally plotted to sabotage, undermine and destroy America's Economy.
The Guest List:
Frank Luntz - GOP Minister of Propaganda
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA),
Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX),
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX),
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI)
Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA),
Sen. Jim DeMint (SC-R),
Sen. Jon Kyl (AZ-R),
Sen. Tom Coburn (OK-R),
Sen. John Ensign (NV-R) and
Sen. Bob Corker (TN-R).
Non-lawmakers present Newt Gingrich