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An evening in Charm City
Author: Raine
Date: 02/01/2010 13:42:27
I think this sums up what happened in Baltimore best:
"On Friday President Obama appeared before House Republicans in a historic televised Q & A and performed so well, afterwards GOP Aids said that allowing cameras to roll like that was a mistake. Come on Republicans, are you on such a Scott Brown high you thought you could take down Barack Obama by debating him? You realize debates are why he is President, right? Seriously, all you do is complain how Obama is all talk and then you invite him to a forum that is literally all talk. That's like saying lets see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. I'm not saying you were out classed but the whole thing was like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the guy charged at Indiana Jones with the sword and he just shot him." Seth Myers, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update
I will be forever grateful to the Republicans for allowing this to be televised, and have little hope that anything like this will ever happen again. This was the man I voted for: Eloquent, well-versed and - even more importantly - knowledgeable on every issue he was asked about. What the Republicans do after this is anyone's guess. The beauty of what happened last week was that they really thought they could pigeon-hole this man. Call it hubris, arrogance -- call it whatever you want, they came out with egg on their face. I just don't think they realize it yet.
Today the President is unveiling his fiscal Budget for 2011. Let's see if they got the message that obstructing everything is hurting our country. Time will tell. There comes a point that when one believes their own hype, as it seems the Republicans have, you become a mockery of what you once were. I'm sorry if this offends my Republican friends, but when the American Conservative calls out Republicans, you have to know there is a problem: And herein lies the problem: they have been so busy obstructing everything the President does for political gains, they don't realize they are actually coming out AGAINST things that normally are either non-partisan or are part of the Republican platform. People need to start being honest about their motives here. You cannot be against everything all the time, expect things to get done, and then when it doesn't happen, blame the other guy who was trying to get things done.
Oh, and by they way? There was no TelePrompTer in the room on Friday. So we people finally let that meme go? Please?
and 
Raine
"On Friday President Obama appeared before House Republicans in a historic televised Q & A and performed so well, afterwards GOP Aids said that allowing cameras to roll like that was a mistake. Come on Republicans, are you on such a Scott Brown high you thought you could take down Barack Obama by debating him? You realize debates are why he is President, right? Seriously, all you do is complain how Obama is all talk and then you invite him to a forum that is literally all talk. That's like saying lets see how tough Aquaman is once we get him in the water. I'm not saying you were out classed but the whole thing was like the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the guy charged at Indiana Jones with the sword and he just shot him." Seth Myers, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update
I will be forever grateful to the Republicans for allowing this to be televised, and have little hope that anything like this will ever happen again. This was the man I voted for: Eloquent, well-versed and - even more importantly - knowledgeable on every issue he was asked about. What the Republicans do after this is anyone's guess. The beauty of what happened last week was that they really thought they could pigeon-hole this man. Call it hubris, arrogance -- call it whatever you want, they came out with egg on their face. I just don't think they realize it yet.
Today the President is unveiling his fiscal Budget for 2011. Let's see if they got the message that obstructing everything is hurting our country. Time will tell. There comes a point that when one believes their own hype, as it seems the Republicans have, you become a mockery of what you once were. I'm sorry if this offends my Republican friends, but when the American Conservative calls out Republicans, you have to know there is a problem:
Yesterday I said that the GOP remains just as intellectually bankrupt and unimaginative as ever, but I need to amend that in light of Pence’s comments. If possible, the GOP has somehow managed to become even worse than it was in previous years. How else can you explain the desperate bid to reframe tax credits for small business as a job-killing measure? It is tax credits similar to these that the Republicans normally advocate as a matter of course, and it was this sort of thing that Republicans were demanding more of last year during the debate over the stimulus bill. Instead of recognizing this and trying to claim that the administration has adopted one of his party’s solutions, Pence is reduced to the absurdity of claiming that possible tax reduction on businesses that hire new employees is some revival of the dreaded Carter years.
[....]
Let’s remember that Pence is not some minor member of the minority. He is the House Republican conference chair, the third highest-ranking Republican in that chamber, and he recently decided not to pursue a Senate bid against Evan Bayh in order to re-build a Republican majority in the House. If this is what he has to offer in his current role, perhaps it would have been better for the GOP if he had tried his luck back home in Indiana.
Oh, and by they way? There was no TelePrompTer in the room on Friday. So we people finally let that meme go? Please?
and Raine
