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âElections have consequencesâ? Funny, when President Obama won twice and the Dems controlled the Senate, none of these GOP asshats believed in anything but obstruction.
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âNow we have the Senate and so our constituents think ânow you can stop Obamaâ. Well we donât have 60,â said Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fla. âHonestly itâs going to continue to frustrate not only our side but the people who elected us that nothing is going to change until we get a new president.â
No, Mr. Rooney, luckily there are still just enough Americans who can see through your partyâs smoke screens to the powers behind you. We will ensure that you remain impotent, squalling brats on the wrong side of everything.
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Remember, before the 2010 elections, when Republicans were calling for âdivided governmentâ to provide a balance between the democratic president?
They took the House in 2010 and succeeded in blocking the president and the Democratsâ agenda, but nothing good came out of their efforts.
Now, even though they control both branches of Congress, they admit that they canât get things done unless they get what they really want: total power to rule.
We live in interesting times.
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Payback is a MITCH!
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[quote]Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, summing up the frustration for many House Republicans. âTell me how it would be different if Harry Reid were still running the place,â[/quote]Well I would hazard to guess that we wouldnât be stuck listening to your bitching about the Senate minority partyâs use of the filibuster for one.
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It cracks me up that the Râs thought they could steamroll the minority once they gained a very slim majority in the Senate.
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âFrustrated Republicansâ
One of my favorite juxtapositions of two English words; and it even sounds good in reverse order.
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These guys should be given an academy award for acting. Iâm certain that they are frustrated, they made a lot of false promises to their supporters and now have to admit the truth. We forgot to take into account the ability of senate democrats and the White House to block our agenda. Sorry! What kind of hallucinogenic drugs are they on?
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Good work, Dâs. I dont even miond the Keystone XL as some needed cover and we can let O whack that one. Keep up the good work.
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Oh, Boo Hoo. Whatâs the matter? Canât stand a taste of your own medicine?
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Thatâs left Republicans staring down the third possibility: a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.
Itâs something most say they want to avoid, but on Thursday House Speaker John Boehner refused to rule the possibility out, insisting instead that Senate Democrats should get the blame if it happens.
Youlimp-dickedSOB.
Blame. You want blame placed?
Just look in the f^cking mirror.
Close down DHS-- will you-- and your pack of seditious ÂŽMFers?
Go on. Do it. You havenât got the cojones to do it-- nor the smarts not to.
To dredge up some recently bandied and policed-wording?
Thatâs a real tarbaby you got stuck with isnât it Bonehead?
jw1
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Revenge is a dish best served cold.
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ââŚmany say that was a relatively easy lift that could stand as the
exception rather than the rule in the months of divided government to
come.â
Except, the âdivisionâ is squarely on the GOP side. Dems are out of the picture at this point.
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Itâs entertaining as hell to see the poor GOPers âfrustratedâ after 6 years of pulling the same isht on Democrats.
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Though a tad cliche?
Specificity in this case-- meaning-- âinteresting timesâ â
becomes a euphemism forâ
âwatch how quickly ÂŽs November election mandate becomes ineffective horsesh^t.ââ
Like? Right now.
jw1
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Shorter Republican Party: âIf we have to shoot this here hostage, itâs your fault for not giving in to our demands.â
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and maybe, just maybe, âstoppingâ Obama has nothing to do with governance and everything to do with the most debilitating obstruction in history? The closest thing I see in history is when the slave south got control of the Senate before the Civil War and tried to make abolition illegal.
Curious, how Rooney exposes the fact here that his constituents think Obama needs to be stopped somehow, yet I would bet if you ask any of them why, they would use the words âcommieâ and âfascistâ and âsoshulistâ in the same rambling accusation.
So many of these Republicans ran on the anti-Obama ticket, that if they donât go after the president instead of trying to actually legislate, they may not get reelected in two years.
It isnât good for Mitch, though, because in the eyes of The House, heâll just replace Reid as the person to blame. That mob doesnât really care who their allies are, but they are quite certain who their enemies are. And as it unfolds, McConnellâs loyalty to the purebred neoroyal billionaires over the Tea Mob mongrel commoners, will begin to be exposed.
That very real rift in the republican Party will play out in the 114th, in a way that armchair and professional historians are going to call historic. In order to protect all the struggling billionaires, the Republicans will inevitably have to barter away the Tea Mobâs delusional social issues if they plan to increase their Wall Street lassaiz-faire-ness. Unfortunately for them, they recruited that Tea Mob on those obscure social issues in the first place.
Those bottom-dwelling hate-voters they had to tap to get their congressional majorities want one thingâŚthey want Obama to suffer somehow, or be humiliated, or better yet get impeached, and everything else is just window dressing to them.
Without an ad-revenue Citizens United addicted national media to foment those Tea Mob prejudices and reactionary attitudes, this would all look very different right now.
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Yes, itâs a cliche, and also a blessing and a curse.
How it shakes out is to be determined.
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If the GOP thinks having the Presidency back in 2016 will solve their problem, they are even dumber than they seem. As long as they donât have the White House, control of the House of Representatives, and 60 votes in the Senate, they will not get anything passed. And between now and then, they have all but challenged Obama to test the limits of Executive power, which are quite extensive.
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