Republican Committee Keeps the Heat on Obama

[FreeStateDemocrat]

Source: NY Times

By PETER BAKER
Published: November 27, 2008
WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama is receiving heaps of good tidings from both sides of the aisle during this Thanksgiving season as he puts together his administration. But at least one office is not giving him a free pass.

With each day’s announcement of another cabinet or White House appointment, the Republican National Committee has been blitzing out critical statements that look no different from the blasts issued throughout the campaign. Mr. Obama’s selections so far, the Republican committee says, have been tax-raising, partisan Washington insiders, hardly the agents of change he promised.

The aggressive approach contrasts with the tone so far from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who are greeting the incoming administration with what has ranged from wait-and-see politeness to an almost warm embrace. Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader from Kentucky, for example, offered praise for Mr. Obama’s initial decisions last week and signaled that he was relieved to be done with President Bush.

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But if Mr. McConnell considers this a good start, the memo did not reach the Republican committee headquarters. Here is how the party has characterized various selections made by Mr. Obama:



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/us/politics/27webbake...

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Typical puke behavior, pretend to play nice while they sneak a knife into your back.

[rocktivity]

1. Obama wouldn't take their bait before

and look how ended up.

Who cares what they think?


rocknation

[liberalmuse]

2. The Republicans can suck it.

After what they've done to this country, they should have absolutely no fucking say in anything President Obama seeks to do. They lost, and as they used to say to us, 'GET OVER IT!' President Obama has a mandate to do whatever he goddamned well pleases. I hope I live long enough to see this despicable party disappear from the face of the earth, never to return.

[lin_e65]

33. Someone should put out...

a daily listing of everything the Rebups have done to screw up this country. That could go on for another 16 years.

[Mz Pip]

3. I have no respect for these people

We are faced with so many problems. Sniping and attack politics aren't going to help matters.

It is almost as though they want him to fail instead of working with him to solve our problems.

[gristy]

4. Good. The more the RNC does this, the more they marginalize themselves and Republicans in general

[Turbineguy]

5. Indeed!

[onehandle]

6. Gnats not worth swatting. They are history. We are the future.

Keep moving forward, Mr. President-Elect.

[stillcool]

7. Those comments are not really from

the RNC are they? Sounds like someone has been reading DU..

“Americans have very high expectations for President-elect Obama, and it’s our job to hold him accountable on his promises,” said Amber Wilkerson, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman. “Naming Emanuel and Axelrod to his senior White House staff is not consistent with his post-partisan message, and nominating Daschle and Clinton to his cabinet does not represent change,” she said, referring to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, said to be Mr. Obama’s pick for secretary of state. Ms. Wilkerson continued: “Republicans will work with the Obama administration when we agree, and we will be the loyal opposition when we don’t.

[happygoluckytoyou]

8. NOTE TO GOP.... you LOST... go home.... your opinion is important, lock it away somewhere !!!

[santamargarita]

9. Goddamn GOP Scum that hate America!

Take Bush and get the fuck out!

[GinaMaria]

10. Did the RNC not receive the memo?

The American people told them loud and clear that they are irrelevant. They need to get over themselves.

[AndyTiedye]

11. Only Republican pResidents Get a "Honeymoon"

The MSM demands that Republican pResidents get a "honeymoon" during which Congress must give them anything they want.
In Bush**'s case, that "honeymoon" lasted 7 1/2 years.

Democratic Presidents get no "honeymoon" at all.

[PatrynXX]

12. RNC doesn't count on being re elected

So maybe they'll keep this up and get it's members pissed. So unless one of these members speak. They Republicans haven't changed yet. But then again there is no leader of that party so things are going wherever.

[NJCher]

13. shows you what republicans are

The type who would swat you off the deck as the ship goes down.



Cher

[SpiralHawk]

14. All the republicons have is Diapers full of their own Monkey poo to fling

Republicons are so freaking ideologically and morally bankrupt.

Pathetic, they are.

[aggiesal]

15. These GOP talking points are repeated by their base on a daily basis ...

My priest, who I've had an on going debate for the last 4 years, said to me last Sunday,
that Obama is picking the same people as the Clinton Administration. I said so!
Bush picked all the people from the Reagan Administration. So he says, but where is
the change?

I then answered "First, the Obama Administration has not been sworn in, so they
really can't make any policy. Second, change is not in the personnel selected to run
the administration, but it will be in the policy changes that will occur once Obama
and his administration are sworn in. So stop listening to Limbaugh/Hannity, and
GET OVER IT. OBAMA WON"

[Old Codger]

16. I Believe

That it takes insiders to make the deep changes that are required at this juncture. Newbies would not have the inside information nor experience necessary on how to go about taking the steps needed now not after they spend a couple of years learning all the twisted convolution that is Washingtonian politics... So old experienced hands at the start is a much much better way to get things done from day one.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. RNC? RNC?

Oh, yeah -- those guys who completely and totally blew the last election. They sound like a bunch of pissed off mosquitos buzzing outside the netting, watching the Big Boys play while they're left powerless (and waiting, terrified, for the bug bomb that's going to hit them in 2010).

[Plucketeer]

18. HAHAHAHAHAHHHHH.....

Y'all rally round dame Sarah! She's the new guiding light of the GOP. She's easy to look at and knows how to kill things with guns. What else could Joe 6-pack want???

[nino3436]

19. LOL

LOL!  The GOP is in shambles right now.  I hope Sarah Palin
remains their un-proclaimed leader.  That will ensure a two
term presidency for Mr Obama.

And I love his administrative picks thus far, and I also love
how he is hitting the ground running!  Even though he is not
the President quite yet, does it not seem like we finally
have a "LEADER" of this country?  Better yet, IN
THE WHITE HOUSE RIGHT NOW!  It just goes to show you how much
of a lame duck president George Bush actually was...pitiful.

[rocktivity]

20. Welcome to DU, Nino!

rocknation

[nino3436]

23. Thanks Bro

Thanks Bro! Been a long time reader, just stated posting on the message boards today...

[rocktivity]

24. That's "Thanks, SIS" to you!

rocknation

[ksimons]

21. they are all just practicing for their slow-motion circular firing squad of each other in the GOP

which will occur over the next several months/years as their party becomes the laughing stock. They want you to forget this entire mess was their fault and a direct result of their policies. It's the same 'distraction' techniques they were using during the campaign to get off issues that hurt them.

[bluesmail]

22. And they won't give up..Ever. It is their job. n/t

[glinda]

25. Expect the worst to come

because as soon as Obama gets in office, they will be throwing all sorts of crap at him, rumors, made up stuff, etc.... as they are well on their way right now to already start the fight for the White House. I think that they are showing how very little they care about this Country's problems and it's people and their selfishness is disgusting. They will be looking from day one to cause big big trouble.

[Joe Bacon]

26. Hey G.O.P., Kiss my A.S.S.

You lost. You're finished. Get used to it!

[Mark E. Smith]

27. Republican committee keeps heat on Obama

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama is receiving heaps of good tidings
from both sides of the aisle during this Thanksgiving season as he puts together
his administration. But at least one office is not giving him a free pass.

With each day's announcement of another cabinet or White House appointment,
the Republican National Committee has been blitzing out critical statements that
look no different from the blasts issued throughout the campaign. Mr. Obama's
selections so far, the Republican National Committee says, have been tax-raising,
partisan Washington insiders, hardly the agents of change he promised.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27947018

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Hmm. As many DUers can attest, referring to Obama's appointments as being
anti-change "Washington insiders" is hardly endemic to those on the Right.

The real Change is, of course, competence and ability. It's been a long 8 years
since we've seen any of that in the White House.

[jwirr]

28. This should not surprise us - look at what they did to Bill Clinton even

before monica.

[Mithreal]

29. "competence and ability" - You are right on! nt

[woodsprite]

30. If it's Repubs talking, I'm putting my fingers in my ears and going "la, la, la...." n/t

[RaRa]

31. Where the head goes, the body follows

let's give it a bit of time before jumping all over ever pick. So far, Obama seems to have picked competent and experienced people. What counts is how he leads them. I won't attack him for not picking "change" for change's sake. I think he was mostly referring to change in how the WH will deal with Congress and both sides of the aisle.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. The first thing that came to mind when I saw this article and the statement

But at least one office is not giving him a free pass.

was that the lunatic fringe RW-biased M$M are the mouthpieces that encourage and add to this idiocy.