"Republicans Are Preparing For Four More Years Of Obama" by Eric Pianin at Business Insider

[applegrove]

Republicans Are Preparing For Four More Years Of Obama

by Eric Pianin at Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/gop-preparing-for-4-more-years-of-obama-2012-9

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Then Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., was upstaged by actor Kevin Sorbo, best known for playing Hercules on television, when the two appeared before the House Republicans weekly conference meeting.

"I kinda feel bad for Paul Ryan ... upstaged by Hercules!" one Republican source jokingly told the Huffington Post. “The Romney campaign just can’t catch a break.”

Most telling of all is that House and Senate Republicans have begun openly speculating on how Congress and the White House would address the looming fiscal cliff if Obama wins a second term. Even while they were packing their bags and preparing to head home to campaign through the Nov. 6 election, some GOP lawmakers were privately conferring with administration officials and spinning out possible scenarios for action in the event of a Romney loss.

Unless lawmakers and the administration can work out their differences over the budget, entitlements and taxes before the end of the year, the economy will be jarred next January by $665 billion worth of expiring tax cuts, vanishing unemployment benefits and automatic across-the-board cuts in defense and domestic spending that many fear would shove the country back into a recession.

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[shraby]

1. And Boehner said "We got 98% of what we wanted".

[applegrove]

2. Was he referring to their blockade of any democratic legislation?

I vaguely remember him saying that.

[shraby]

10. He was referring to the bill they passed that puts in all the cuts they don't want

when it goes into effect after the first of the year. The big budget cuts in defense, etc. They figured the super committee would bail them out on that and it didn't.

[applegrove]

12. Now I remember, thanks.

[ohheckyeah]

3. “The Romney campaign just can’t catch a break.”

They shouldn't expect a break....they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

[davidpdx]

8. Yeah, what does Romney expect? Government help?

You know Mitt, your campaign represents the 47% of losers in this country. The Republican losers.

[Xyzse]

4. Pauly R got upstaged by Scrawncules?

What a disgrace.
A career politician overshadowed by a stunt guy...

I now have to wonder in how many ways.

[applegrove]

5. I think scrawncules was a canadian. Or perhaps he got his american citizenship.

[theKed]

6. No, sir.

Born in Minnesota, according to wikipedia

[applegrove]

7. You are correct. I wonder why I thought that. Strange.

[mojo2012]

9. Lyin' Ryan will speak out soon

Lyin' Ryan won't be able to take it...Soon, he will say he can bench press more weight than Kevin Sorbo (Hercules)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. Are they preparing to do their jobs

if Obama wins or will we get another 2-4 years of their rampant obstructionism? Has Ryan already scheduled another pre-Inaugural "meeting" to discuss how they plan to derail President Obama for the next 2-4 years if/when he wins?