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November 14, 2014
Republicans Demand Return of Passive Obama
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressional Republicans on Friday expressed outrage at the new leadership style that President Obama has demonstrated in the aftermath of the midterm elections, and demanded a return of the passive and unassertive Obama to which we have grown accustomed.
In a joint statement, House Speaker John Boehner and his counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accused Obama of engaging in a flagrant display of leadership that we find deeply offensive.
For the past six years, we have enjoyed a President who has been conciliatory and acquiescent to the point of emasculation, Boehner said. We want that President back.
McConnell threatened that if Obama does not return to his weak and ineffectual ways at once, he will face the prospect of being a two-term President.
At the White House, the President did not respond to the Republicans remarks, telling reporters that he planned to work through the weekend raising the minimum wage, granting amnesty to immigrants, and legalizing marijuana.
By Andy Borowitz
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republicans-demand-return-passive-obama
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)The President has nothing to lose at this point. He needs to sock it to those Thugs!
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)threaten him with "burning", the GOP and their media enablers will continue to insist that the abuser Republicans are the victims and Obama the abuser, Obama will remain calm but is now free to use the bully pulpit now that all the science and fact deniers are fully exposed, and soon enough now the truth is going to hit Americans square in the face.
The Republicans are insane, the media is their bitch and the only adult left in the room thankfully occupies the White House.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)to do the correct thing, with few to no repercussions. If they try to impeach him, which I suspect they will, their behavior will come across as the ultimate clown circus, just in time for the traditional GOP primary clown car.
Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Awsome plan. Unpopular President does even more unpopular things, and the Democratic Party wins the booby prize in the next election when we are celebrating the election of a Democratic Animal Control Supervisor, until we find out it was a typo.
Seriously, take the next step. Start with Immigration Reform. 57% of the people say they support Congressional Action on Immigration. However, only 20% support the President taking Unilateral Executive Action.
So President Obama's favorability rating, currently hovering on the basement stairs at an anemic 40%, would drop how far through the Basement when he does do his huge unilateral action?
Well, at least the people see the Republicans as awful, or not. Republicans currently have a higher favorability/support level than Democrats. So how does the President socking it to the more popular thugs make us any headway we can hope to sustain?
Now, if you want to see the death of the Democratic Party for the next Generation, then by all means, full speed ahead and fuck the Republicans. Now, if by any chance you want to win some seats, perhaps the White House in 2016, then you need to stop thinking with your emotions, and start taking a long hard look at what is going on. Because the course President Obama appears to have us on, ends up with him being considered by Historians as one of the worst Presidents in the last Century, and Rand Paul in the White House, with a Republican Senate, and House. Now, I'm not in favor of that, but if the group says we have to show the Republicans we mean business and full speed ahead into the iceberg aboard the titanic for the second time, then I guess we'll all be drinking quite heavily on election night 2016.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)DrBulldog
(841 posts)... who takes SIX years to grow a pair.
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)are quite different. He's been busy in case you hadn't noticed.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)The only reason we find it funny is because he truly has been ...a President who has been conciliatory and acquiescent to the point of emasculation."
babylonsister
(171,090 posts)get a bull in a china shop like idiot son. And damn, he didn't start any illegal wars and shit.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)But we can certainly add those to the list of things he didn't do.
No wonder we lost this election.
Cha
(297,655 posts)has his style and others have theirs.
Write up there with keeping the powder dry, seven dimensional chess, and all the other BS that is about as useless.
Cha
(297,655 posts)napkinz
(17,199 posts)nt