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Apparently we are all wrong about Republican treatment of Obama. (Original Post) Courtesy Flush Nov 2013 OP
He needs to learn to use the sarcasm smilie. Courtesy Flush Nov 2013 #1
I giggled myself silly when I saw this rock Nov 2013 #2
I think that old fool believes the horseshit he's spewing Warpy Nov 2013 #3
Yeah what a laugh! VanillaRhapsody Nov 2013 #4
Our primary goal in the Senate will be to defeat this president Plucketeer Nov 2013 #5
How can turtleman have the nerve spartan61 Nov 2013 #6
According to Norm Ornstein at AEI, McConnell wanted the nuclear option triggered Gothmog Nov 2013 #7
Objective? WhoIsNumberNone Nov 2013 #8
STFU Mitch!!!! Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2013 #9
STFU Mitch!!!! (Needed to be said twice) ffr Nov 2013 #12
I think this is what a neutered turtle looks and sounds like. Snarkoleptic Nov 2013 #10
Phew... Jamaal510 Nov 2013 #11

Warpy

(111,270 posts)
3. I think that old fool believes the horseshit he's spewing
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 07:25 PM
Nov 2013

I'm sure Pox News is on 24/7 in his office and at his home.

Time to go, Mitchy, and join the rest of the tortoises.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
5. Our primary goal in the Senate will be to defeat this president
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 07:27 PM
Nov 2013

By goshes, what could be more fair than that???

spartan61

(2,091 posts)
6. How can turtleman have the nerve
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 07:41 PM
Nov 2013

to say something so ridiculous when the repugs have done nothing but obstruct President Obama from the very beginning and have said that was their goal? "Very, very fair to the President?" Like hell!!

Gothmog

(145,305 posts)
7. According to Norm Ornstein at AEI, McConnell wanted the nuclear option triggered
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 07:58 PM
Nov 2013

Tom Mann and Norm Ornstein are two of my favorite authors and really now about the partisanship in Washington. According to Ornstein, McConnell forced Harry Reid's hand on the nuclear option http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/norm-ornstein-republicans-forced-reid-s-hand-on-the-nuclear-option

Norm Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, told TPM that Republicans forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to "go nuclear" after his Democratic majority took the historic step Thursday and ended the filibuster for executive nominees and non-Supreme Court judicial nominees.

"For whatever reason, the Republicans decided to go nuclear first, with this utterly unnecessary violation of their own agreement and open decision to block the president from filling vacancies for his entire term, no matter how well qualified the nominees," Ornstein told TPM in an email. "It was a set of actions begging for a return nuclear response."

He also speculated that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) secretly wanted Democrats to go nuclear so he could use the same tactic to end the filibuster entirely if and when Republicans take the majority.

"McConnell's threat, it seems to me, makes clear the strategy: let Dems take the first step, and we will then bear no blame when we entirely blow up the Senate's rules after we take all the reins of power," he said. "That other Republicans like Corker, McCain, Alexander, Murkowski and so on, went along, shows how much the radicals and anti-institutionalists now dominate the Republican Party. Which is sad indeed."


I agree that the GOP forced Harry Reid to use the nuclear option and I doubt that the GOP will respect Senate history or rules if they are in control of the Senate

WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
8. Objective?
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 08:10 PM
Nov 2013

That line reminds me of the intro page to a Holocaust denial site I used as a source for a term paper on propaganda.

Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
10. I think this is what a neutered turtle looks and sounds like.
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 09:11 PM
Nov 2013

I'm loving the extreme butthurt among pugs today, so much so, I had to listen to Michael Medved just for kicks!

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
11. Phew...
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 09:13 PM
Nov 2013

glad to see I was wrong all this time, and that the GOP just had their own way of showing how patriotic they are by stopping Obama's anti-American agenda.
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