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The GOP is not a partner to compromise. They are triumphant overlords who will seek to humiliate Obama as much as anything else. They would destroy America in order to save it.
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I don’t think republicans want to compromise on ANYTHING. As evidence I submit this from no less a “luminary” than Rush Limbaugh:
“It is to stop Barack Obama. It is to stop the Democrats,” Limbaugh said on his show Wednesday about Republicans’ agenda. “There is no other reason why Republicans were elected yesterday. Republicans were not elected to govern.”
“How can you govern with a president that is demonstrably lawless when he thinks he has to be?” Limbaugh continued. “The Republican Party was not elected to fix a broken system or to make it work. The Republican Partywas not elected to compromise. The Republican Party was not elected to sit down and work together with the Democrats.”
So there is a large part of the repub base than wants NO GOVERNMENT AT ALL.
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Voters typically take a rosier view of the economy when their preferred party is in the White House.
No shit. Like the Wall Street Democrats yapping about the stock market doing so well while wages stagnate- completely out of touch with average Americans who have seen their incomes dwindle.
Launching new wars seems to kind of get a free pass too.
Who knows - maybe someday a politician may actually get held accountable by their OWN party?
I know…a silly thought. Back to your regularly scheduled hyper-partisanship.
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The Tea Party still has “Speaker” Boehner by the short and curlies.
House Republicans can’t vote for any important legislation that Barack Obama might actually sign. Any such bill would be, by wingnut definition, an abomination straight from the pit of Hell. Any Republican who voted for such a bill would risk getting teabagged in 2016.
Nothing will happen for two years except impeachment. The president doesn’t have to endorse that.
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here is a plan that both parties could agree on - cut the corporate rate to 23.5% and raise the individual rate to 50% including salary capital gains
Except that it won’t be saved by their destroying it.
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Compromise? That hasn’t existed in Congress since 1/20/09.
Here’s an idea on the economy. Stop obstructing Obama, he has done a pretty good job so far. Leave him in charge,and let him make the decisions. You people will just mess it up again.
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The New “Decider!”
Aside from the normal Sunday-morning-clickthrough-headline/article detach?
This, right here, is proof that (R)s are blindly ideological:
In the 2006 exit poll conducted in the last midterm of the Bush years, 76 percent of those backing Republicans said they economy was in good shape, while 73 percent of those who voted for Democrats said it was in the tank.
Housing-bubble just burst.
Verge of recession.
And the (R) lemmings go full-tilt with rose-colored glasses based on propaganda.
(R)s live in a fantasy-- that physically coexists within the reality-- where the rest of the world deals with issues created and fomented by their blindered ignorance.
If you’re comforted and motivated by the batsh^t insanity of your ideology?
You may proudly claim:
#IAmARepublican
jw1
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Oil and water.
There will still be no true compromising, simply because it would require three things that cannot possibly happen.
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The GOP majorities in the House and Senate are not adequate without the Tea Party extremists. They will deny the GOP a true majority unless the proposals meet with their demands.
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That means the GOP leadership would be forced to strike deals with some of the Democrats in order to pass anything remotely moderate, which can’t happen for obvious reasons.
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Regardless of all of this, anything remotely supported by the President will still be seen as giving him a “win”…and the GOP Prime Directive regarding that Black Man in the White House is still operative. It cannot be allowed to happen.
So, net result: The GOP will be “in charge” but will prove itself unable to govern, and most things sent to the President will likely see a veto. 2 more years of stalemate, leading to a complete GOP debacle in 2016.
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“…78 percent say the law that requires health coverage for nearly everyone went too far…”
Let’s not forget the fact that Republican voters are just echoing what the Republican propaganda machine is lying to them about.
The Republican Party doesn’t like it, because a Democrat – especially a black Democrat – implemented their plan before they could. Had a President Romney implemented President Obama’s same plan, Fox News would be 24/7 about how great it was.
This is still a non-issue, except for a conservative media which seeks to either promote division or sensationalistic fear of differing opinions over trivial details which the media aren’t the least bit interested in explaining or clarifying.
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Compromise? What the voters want? Ha ha ha Teatards say fuck the voters. The koch brothers have bought & paid for this congress. They control the agenda. They could absolutely care less what the country need
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“…Nearly half [of Republicans] say the economy’s getting worse…”
Interesting.
Corporate profits are at record highs. Taxes on the filthy rich are low. A handful of conservatives own most of the nation’s wealth.
Don’t Republican voters realize that’s the Republican’s economic plan?
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The voters want them to work on a bunch of problems that Democrats are scared to tackle and Republicans have vowed to ignore.
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Hey, I have an Idea.
Why can’t Obama just step back and say, “All right. Present me with something.”
I want to see Boehner and McConnell herd their cats.
That would be a spectacle worthy of the attention of the whole country.
Given the opportunity, and with a power vacuum at the top of their party, all the various nuts will be rushing for the microphones to stake their claims and the race to the fringe will be on.
We know that the only thing that they have come together around is hatred of Obama, so just back off and give them ball to play with, knowing that the veto is still an option.
If the Democrats play their cards right and take the less is more route, the Republicans will be more than happy to shoot themselves in the foot.
Repeatedly.
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There will be no compromise. The GOP is going to use the same old playbook. Blame Obama for refusing to adopt to the Koch’s radical agenda.
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Man, it just doesn’t get more AP than this load of AP codswallop. It’s like they sprinkle bipartisan happy sugar and opium dream fantasy on top of a gigantic pile of bullshit they helped create and call it news.
Republicans and Democrats may cooperate to repeal an ACA tax that only matters to gigantic, well-heeled corporations who somehow idiotically think a tiny tax that uniformly raises on products that are not comparison shopped and utterly price insensitive is the Worst Thing Evah! Yay! Bipartisan happy feet! Feel the progress!
And immigration! They could totally finally get together on immigration! Unless, of course, Obama Poisons the Well™ by daring to act like he’s the president with control over regulations or something in response to inaction, because Republicans won’t act because they don’t trust him and he Won’t Enforce the Laws™ and Build the Dang Fence, but they can’t act if he acts because that Poisons the Well. And, hey,if the last fourteen years have taught us anything, it’s that there’s enormous pent up demand for immigration reform in the GOP! Yay! Bipartisan happy feet!
Bipartisan happy! Yay! We’re the AP and we’re here to tell you that everything is fine, just fine and same as it ever was! Nothing has gone fundamentally wrong with our political system that we’ve been too intimidated by Republican ref-working to tell you about, absolutely not! The GOP is the same steady, moderate, prudent party it’s ever been! It’s still the Party of Ideas and it totally hasn’t been taken over by Bircher plutocrats and ignorant yahoos whose only common bond is that they believe policymaking as collaboration with evil. Everything is fine, goddammit fine!
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Feel you NC.