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How the HELL has OBAMA (Original Post) MH1 Mar 2016 OP
Yep! Marco is an idiot! leftofcool Mar 2016 #1
Democrats condemn GOP's plot to obstruct Obama as 'appalling and sad' malaise Mar 2016 #2
Must read underpants Mar 2016 #5
Yes. "Let's obstruct and obstruct and we'll blame it on the black guy" MH1 Mar 2016 #7
"the seeds of 2012" and I might add, the seeds of 2016 mountain grammy Mar 2016 #8
Why aren't McConnel and Boner's names included? Frustratedlady Mar 2016 #9
They weren't there malaise Mar 2016 #10
I could have sworn that McConnell was there. How/why would he miss that opportunity to Frustratedlady Mar 2016 #11
Pretty standard RW talking point that has become true through repetition underpants Mar 2016 #3
Rubio tends to focus on physical attributes for his insults. gordianot Mar 2016 #4
Sarah Palin did something good for the country Enrique Mar 2016 #6
Yea apparently treestar Mar 2016 #12
Pretty much, yeah democrattotheend Mar 2016 #13
Probably the LEAST polarizing president history. deaniac21 Mar 2016 #14
he hasn't Skittles Mar 2016 #15
By existing.... JHB Mar 2016 #16
it was different when he got elected Macattack1 Mar 2016 #17

malaise

(267,827 posts)
2. Democrats condemn GOP's plot to obstruct Obama as 'appalling and sad'
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:25 AM
Mar 2016

Fuck Rubio and the rest of them
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama

During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.

The disclosures – described as "appalling and sad" by Obama's chief strategist David Axelrod – undermine Republican claims that the president alone is to blame for the partisan deadlock in Washington.


A detailed account of who was present at the dinner on that January 20 night and the plan they worked out to bring down Obama is provided by Robert Draper in 'Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives', published this week.

In his book, Draper opens with the heady atmosphere in Washington on the days running up to the inauguration and the day itself, which attracted 1.8 million to the mall to witness Obama being sworn in as America's first black president.

Those numbers contributed to a growing sense of unease among Republicans as much the defeat in the White House race the previous November. The 15 Republicans were in a sombre mood as they gathered at the Caucus Room in Washington, an upscale restaurant where a New York strip steak costs $51.

Attending the dinner were House members Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan and Pete Sessions. From the Senate were Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign and Jon Kyl. Others present were former House Speaker and future – and failed – presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and the Republican strategist Frank Luntz, who organised the dinner and sent out the invitations.



MH1

(17,537 posts)
7. Yes. "Let's obstruct and obstruct and we'll blame it on the black guy"
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:35 AM
Mar 2016

for being "divisive".

Or in other words of earlier times (but probably still in private for some republicans), for having the gall to be "an uppity ******". For not "knowing his place".

I am so tired of this shit.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
9. Why aren't McConnel and Boner's names included?
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:46 AM
Mar 2016

I thought they were there, although Boner's brain was probably anesthetized by the time they got to the steak.

Just curious.

malaise

(267,827 posts)
10. They weren't there
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 04:25 PM
Mar 2016

McConnell made his comment at the Heritage Foundation



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Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
11. I could have sworn that McConnell was there. How/why would he miss that opportunity to
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 04:35 PM
Mar 2016

spew his hatred of Obama? What an evil man.

underpants

(182,281 posts)
3. Pretty standard RW talking point that has become true through repetition
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:25 AM
Mar 2016

They've been saying that since day one basically. The Teabaggers were their created evidence. Remember the "beer summit"? That never happened in their world.

gordianot

(15,226 posts)
4. Rubio tends to focus on physical attributes for his insults.
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:27 AM
Mar 2016

He may have just noticed President Obama has a darker skin tone or is miffed he is going the way of Scotty Walker and Bobby Jindal. First Republican failure instinct blame someone else, just say Obama.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
6. Sarah Palin did something good for the country
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 09:32 AM
Mar 2016

when she blamed Obama for her son punching his girlfriend in the face, it exposed the conservatives' impulse to blame Obama for their own failings.

democrattotheend

(11,605 posts)
13. Pretty much, yeah
Sun Mar 13, 2016, 08:30 PM
Mar 2016

"By being black and getting elected President?"

That's exactly how he has been divisive and laid the seeds for Trump.

Skittles

(152,967 posts)
15. he hasn't
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:27 AM
Mar 2016

repukes think that because they became hysterical when Obama was elected that he is somehow to blame

JHB

(37,132 posts)
16. By existing....
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:50 AM
Mar 2016

His being black is definitely a factor, but they would be doing basically the same against Hillary if she had won in 08, and it's really just an extension of the playbook they developed during Bill Clinton's administration: Democrats will be illegitimized at every turn.

 

Macattack1

(34 posts)
17. it was different when he got elected
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 06:06 AM
Mar 2016

when he got elected, there was a feeling of "coming together" that swept the nation..I remember it, I felt it..so didn't a lot of white people, who voted for him...but something has definitely gone wrong..

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