The GOP has declared war against President Obama and the American people.

[rainlillie]

At what point does doing everything within your power to make sure the economy doesn't recover and rejoicing at the slow recovery become anti-American? It's utterly shameful and disgraceful that we now have an elected party that has made it their mission to make sure the President fails, and by doing so the country will fail too.

Mitch McConnell said: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.." That just goes to show you where their priorities are.


The Republican party has declared war against President Obama. No, it's not about disagreeing with his policies, it's about a systematic effort to bring him down anyway they can...Simply put, it's about politics and 2012. Unfortunately, the economy, the uninsured, the unemployed and the environment are all collateral damage in this war. Think about it; Republicans have voted against bills that they themselves have created, when the President says he supports them.

Republicans have tried to block and stop every single piece of legislation that President Obama is in favor of. You're naive if you think they're doing this, because they simply think his policies are wrong for the country; no, they're doing this as Jim DeMint said: "to break him."

What happened to "country first" as McCain's 2008 campaign slogan said? Now it's party first. The Republican plan is very diabolic, the reason they blocked the extension of unemployment insurance and the jobs bill; is to keep the economy from bouncing back, therefore come election time, they can point to that as a failure by President Obama and the Democrats, who will be up for reelection.

We've been told a few days after Obama settled into the White House they they'd like to see him "fail." So far the Republican party, some faux Democrats and a whole host of right wing-parrots are doing everything within their power to make sure that happens. I'm afraid the public may be looking the other way and not paying attention to what's going on here.

We have an elected party that is trying to bring this country down and they don't give a damn about the people they hurt in the process.

Senator Tom Harkin said a few year ago.. He has been in the senate for 30 years, In his 30 years he has "never seen anything like this before." I'd like to know when are the people going to stand up and push back? Are we going to allow the republicans to achieve their goal? If we do it will be at our own peril.

[spanone]

1. the republican mindset, along with citizens united, could spell the end for ol usa

[atreides1]

2. Marcus Tullius Cicero, said it best.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”

[MsLeopard]

5. Perfect!

Thank you for sharing Cicero's quote - it clearly states what is happening today. Wish it could fit into a sig line!

The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh?

[pansypoo53219]

7. when is filibuster nothing more than sedition?

of course the 'libral' media IGNORES IT.

[kmartinelli]

8. The decline of U.S.

Like the fall of the Roman Empire and Ancient Greece we will fall from within.

[a la izquierda]

17. Holy smokes, that's it!

[UTUSN]

3. When had they ever stopped warring on the majority and its Dem leaders?!1 n/t

[MrDiaz]

4. yea but

Didn't we do the same thing to them, and they do the same thing to clinton? It is a football game for most americans, people don't really pay attention to politics they just pick a party and stick with it reagardless of what happens.

[LibDemAlways]

6. No, the Democrats do not operate that way. When Bush and

Cheney stole the WH, the Democratic Party accepted the corrupt Supreme Court's ruling and declared that we needed to make nice. Look where it got us.

The R's vendetta against Clinton was largely personal. With Obama they've set not only him but the 99% in their line of fire. The OP is right.

[SalviaBlue]

9. No. Their use of the filibuster is unprecedented. And un-American.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

[ladjf]

10. Well, that's a "news flash". nt

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. Randi Rhodes always says that this country will never be destroyed by outside forces...

It will be destroyed from within...

Monied interests, coupled with an apathetic, dumbed down electorate, will destroy this country, NOT some terrorist organization or "boogeyman" that the Power Elite has dreamt up to scare us all into submission.

We will destroy ourselves.

I sincerely believe that the Walker-Barrett showdown next week will provide some clue as to where this country is headed...

[wial]

12. Mind you, as Krugman has been pointing out

until he's blue in the face, we'd have had a much better and faster recovery if Obama had been a lot less republican in his policies. We needed a massive Keynesian response. Instead we got half-measures and will pay dearly when the real recovery starts in terms of infrastructure not repaired and built, which we should have done when the time was right to keep people busy and improve the country.

Hopefully it's not too late for that, if the serious people EVER get the frigging message.

[supraTruth]

13. 2YEARS of FAILED BONEheadBLOCKING CONgress is SHOVING US into a DOUBLE-DIP RECESSION

2YEARSofFAILED BONEheadBLOCKING CONgress is SHOVING US into a DOUBLE-DIP RECESSION! http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002723925 http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002509864

Do what U can:

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[Kablooie]

14. But the win at any cost strategy is beginning to pay off...

Based on today's unemployment figures.
Only 69000 new jobs and most of those low paying.

Listening to NPR I felt that this news could really sway many voters.

This is what the GOP has been working towards for 4 years and it will make things more difficult for Dems.
It's sad that this kind of destructive behavior can pay off but as they say, "Crime Pays".

[Populist_Prole]

15. They're a fading demographic showing defiance

And they just want to go down swinging wildly.

[Initech]

16. Obama was Koch blocked by certifiably insane right wing billionaires.

They're the real ones who have hijacked America - they've done more damage to our country than any terrorist group could ever dream of.

[Dawson Leery]

18. Certainly.

[Flying Squirrel]

19. Maybe Obama should get a clue then..

If he favors Republican-created bills, he should not say so. Then maybe they'll allow them to pass.

Simple reverse psychology, right?

[kentuck]

20. Do you think we have been fighting back hard enough...?

The right-wing does not let up.