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jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 05:44 PM Mar 2013

The GOP wouldn't accept everything it ever wanted, if it came from Obama

I was thinking the other day about the GOP's obstructionism...it seems to me that if Obama were to submit a budget to Congress that killed all social spending, Obamacare and everything else Republicans don't like, hacked and slashed all infrastructure spending, increased funding to the Defense Department and gave millionaires a huge tax cut, and still managed to balance the budget in two years, the GOP would oppose it for the simple reason that Obama would get some of the credit for doing it.

Right now, keeping Obama from getting the credit for anything positive that happens to America, and making sure he takes all the blame for anything bad, is the GOP's sole reason for existing. It's not about 2014, or 2016 or anything else. I don't even think they want the White House in 2016 because it would be put up or shut up time and we know what happened the last time they put up. So do they, and it scares them...which is why they ran unelectable candidates in 2008 and 2012.

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The GOP wouldn't accept everything it ever wanted, if it came from Obama (Original Post) jmowreader Mar 2013 OP
He gave them their Heritage Foundation wet dream health care plan MannyGoldstein Mar 2013 #1
He could end world hunger, cure cancer Freddie Mar 2013 #2

Freddie

(9,272 posts)
2. He could end world hunger, cure cancer
Sun Mar 24, 2013, 09:10 PM
Mar 2013

and bring about lasting world peace, and they'd still obstruct everything he tried. Might as well fight for something good like the Progressive Caucus budget. Sigh.

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