Ax: "We're going to look for every opportunity we can to have constructive dialogue." (with the GOP)

[Clio the Leo]

Read "constructive dialogue" as "another opportunity to demonstrate what idiots you guys are."

Axe: Keep engaging the GOP
By MIKE ALLEN | 02/02/10 7:01 AM

Senior adviser David Axelrod told Mike Allen's POLITICO Playbook the White House is looking for more Baltimore-like opportunities to engage the GOP: "One of the things we ran on, and one of the things that we?ve been reminded of lately, is the degree to which people want to see their business done in an open and transparent way. We're going to look for every opportunity we can to have constructive dialogue. That doesn't mean that we're going to ask them to convene the Republican caucus every week, and I'm not sure that they would want to. So we'll look for a variety of ways to do that. I just think there's so much jaundice about the way business is done in this town. The more people do their business in the open -- Republican and Democrats -- and have an honest, unscripted exchange of ideas, the better people will feel about the process and about their government. We just can't be slaves to talking points generated by people like me."

--Axe, on engaging Republicans: "You can't have a situation where we're governing and they're simply running an election campaign. Everybody's got to pick up an oar here and row, if we're going to get to where we need to go. Those guys were kind of free riders in the first year. The boat's got a lot of freight."

--On Baltimore pregame: "There was not one minute of prep here -- I guarantee it. He left here for Baltimore on the helicopter, and we didn't have any discussion about Q-and-A. It was thoroughly spontaneous, at least from our end."

--But he says probably no regular "question time": "The thing that made Friday interesting was the spontaneity. If you slip into a kind of convention, then conventionality will overtake the freshness of that."

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0210/baltimore_more_more_3d4b248b-032c-4f44-8277-eaca48a16ddd.html

[thunder rising]

1. Axelrod: The best chance for dialog is to demostrate this administration sodomizes the left as

viscously as the Republicans. And we'll keep doing it until they get the point.

[Lord Helmet]

3. LOL

This sounds like Limbaugh's fixation on "bending over and grabbing ankles."

[DrToast]

2. I can only assume at some point they're going to pivot and start attacking

And they want it to be known they did all they could to be bipartisan.

At least I hope that's what they're doing. I'd had to believe they're this clueless.

[Cosmocat]

5. No, they won't ...

and they should not ...

Look, we all know, and agree that the republicans are friggen lunatic arse hats who will NEVER be honest about things and continue to act like a bunch of friggen 5 year olds ...

BO knows that, too ...

BUT, he said he was going to try to change the tone, and he is GENUINELY TRYING ... And, he is going to not stop, because he is just that type of guy ... He is 1000 times bigger than I am for sure.

As much as I know I would have ended up physically attacking the first moron on Friday I could get ahold of, I also see the way this plays out ...

The MSM is NEVER going to give the Ds a fair shake regardless.

But, if BO continues to relentlessly take the high ground, the fair minded people who actually are independants will see the stark disconnect between his never ending concilitory approach and the GOP acting like lunatics ...

He is being who he is, a DARN good guy, and the sharpest tool in the shed ... He can't be anything else ...

[and-justice-for-all]

4. "We're going to look for every opportunity...."

what a waste of time.

[Clio the Leo]

6. It's a waste of time to show the world what fools the Republicans are?

Did you read the article?

And if you didn't, you weren't alone.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. The repukes are not intereseted in workig together...

neither are some Dems for that matter, we all know what fuck-ups pukes are and continuing to try to work with them; instead of just doing what needs done without them, is utter waste of time.

Making them look more like evil incarnate on a daily bases is fun, I must say. 90% of that they do with on their own without any assistance.