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Obama Drops Ceremonial Pen, Angering GOP
* By Humberto Sanchez
* Roll Call Staff
* March 7, 2012, Midnight
Senate Republicans are bristling that the president has cut down on one of his ceremonial duties: signing bills in public.
Most Republicans suspect the dearth of signing ceremonies is an election-year strategy in the mold of President Harry Truman's method of running against a "do-nothing" Congress. To trumpet legislative successes would run counter to the narrative of a hamstrung president, Senate Republicans say.
"I think that's his strategy," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said, adding that Senate Democratic leaders are helping President Barack Obama by focusing on partisan legislation that they know Republicans won't support.
Coburn called it a "shame" that the White House would take the approach that "'the only way I can win is to make someone else look bad, rather than win on my accomplishments and my leadership.' That is a tragedy."
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billybob537
(3,840 posts)I've got the vapors!!
Yet another case of pot calling the kettle black.
This is exactly what the House Republicans have been doing for two years.
Thanks for the training.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... and admit that they just can't stand the idea of a black man in the White House.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)is as disturbing to them as the fact that he isnt "their kind" of black man
herman cain would have been ok because he knows how to apply the proper amount of coonery to be unthreatening
they object to a well educated well spoken black man who speaks his own mind
for the jury...the term coonery is one popularized by spike lee to define use of sterotyped behaviour by black people to achieve personal gains
Scuba
(53,475 posts)My first experience with black Americans was in the US military in 1970. Many could not believe that I came from Coon Valley, Wisconsin, and were offended by the town's name. I could not disagree.
Coon Creek runs right through Coon Valley, and is a prized trout stream, fished by anglers and racoons alike.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)i agree that it is not a "comfortable" term
sadly in this instance it does fit
caraher
(6,278 posts)they'd complain that he was grandstanding and hogging credit for Republican legislative leadership.
Besides, if you go nothin' to sign...!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)How many things have NOT been filibustered to death in the Senate since last year? Republican "complaints" about President Obama have become so petty it's become little more than background noise to me. Maybe the Republicans should start thinking about actually working with President Obama and the Democrats to pass some things that he might actually sign. They can't just propose a bunch of extremist OTT legislation and then somehow expect the President and Democrats in Congress to just adopt it and, based on their track record, even he were to embrace their ideas, they'd turn against it in a heartbeat anyway.
Actually, you know, maybe.....................
tanyev
(42,514 posts)And Coburn shows that he's irony deficient.
Arkansas Granny
(31,505 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Coburn called it a "shame" that the White House would take the approach that "'the only way I can win is to make someone else look bad, rather than win on my accomplishments and my leadership.' That is a tragedy."
Isn't that the GOP game plan....???
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,391 posts)That has been the basic GOP strategy proposed by (unofficial) Republican leader Rush Limbaugh and enthusiastically adopted by the rest of the party.
BTW nobody can "make" people look bad who really ARE bad.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Demeter
(85,373 posts)and tell them to bring the guys in white coats with the straitjackets.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)rurallib
(62,373 posts)Surprised they haven't blamed their shitty pres. candidates on Obama somehow.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)If, for the sake of argument, there exists a qualified republican candidate, do you think s/he would even consider running this time around? Better to wait until 2016, when Obama is gone.
LynnTTT
(362 posts)had to read the article to make sure it wasn't a joke.
Cosmocat
(14,558 posts)with their counter intuitive BS ...
My mind literally can not even work in a manner to think of the way they twist crape ...
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)i guess some people have`t grown up.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)Skinner
(63,645 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)emulatorloo
(44,057 posts)It really is their bread and butter tactic.
yellerpup
(12,252 posts)Let's start with global warming.
Harriety
(298 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)... and my leadership.' That is a tragedy."
No.
It's a projection.
Really guys, stop assuming everyone does what you do yourselves.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)malthaussen
(17,175 posts)What will these fools come up with next?
-- Mal
a2liberal
(1,524 posts)Projection much? Silly Republicans
>"the only way I can win is to make someone else look bad, rather than win on my accomplishments and my leadership."
liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)He could hold the photo-op with an empty desk and no pens, highlighting the do-nothing obstructionist Congress.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Ishoutandscream2
(6,660 posts)What next, he doesn't like apple pie?
and-justice-for-all
(14,765 posts)leave it to repukes to make something out of nothing.
DFW
(54,268 posts)They are doing an excellent job of that all on their own.
NICO9000
(970 posts)WTF is wrong with these people?
Oh wait...
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)OMG cry more repugs, getting more and more sad each day.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)If the American public knew the only thing the Repuke-infested House and the Democratic-controlled Senate could agree on long enough to get a bill through Congress is post office naming, they'd be calling mortar missions against the House Chamber.
And since the Republicans are Second Amendment Absolutists, and the Second Amendment starts "a well-regulated militia being necessary," one would think mortars are just the weapons that need to be in the hands of the general public.
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)Proving once again that the Republicans are a bunch of crybabies. But unlike babies, they aren't cute and cuddly.