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Obama: I Don’t Want Tired Old (Republican) Ideas

He'll Take Any Good Idea, As Long as It's Liberal Orthodoxy

By: Brian Faughnan (Diary)  |  February 6th, 2009 at 10:34 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

Now we know why Barack Obama apparently expected a big bipartisan vote for the c___ sandwich. He figured that once he rode a 53% tidal wave to the White House, on a platform specifically calling for:

  1. Hope; and,
  2. Change,

that there was no way Republicans would actually vote against a trillion dollar payoff to liberal constituencies. He apparently didn’t believe all that Democratic rhetoric about how Republicans in Congress are getting more and more conservative, because he thought that would be so awestruck by him that they would eagerly vote for a massive expansion of the government. So when he promised to welcome their ideas, and incorporate good ones into his ‘stimulus,’ he meant ‘other ideas for government expansion that we Democrats didn’t think of yet.’ He expected Republicans to suddenly embrace the Democratic agenda because he won; you know, just like the Democrats did in 2001 and 2005.

How else do you explain this (from yesterday’s White House press briefing):

MSNBC’S CHUCK TODD: “Robert, you’ve said just now actually in an answer to one of the questions or the President has said if he hears some good ideas from the Republicans, he’s all for it. Has there been a good idea from a Republican that he is now trumpeting into this stimulus packet?”

GIBBS: “Well, I think the President talked with Senator Snowe and Senator Collins yesterday.”

TODD: “Was there specific like okay, that’s a good idea, let’s do it?”

GIBBS: “I have not gotten from him that. I know that he believes that and stated over the course of the negotiations that there are things that he didn’t, while good policy, didn’t believe should be in the bill. And I think he is watching what is And I think he is watching what is going on in the Senate in order to see where the process moves this along.”

Just feel the bipartisan warmth.

I leave you with a portion of Obama’s speech to House Democrats yesterday, reminding them ‘I Won.:

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  • JustLeaveMeAlone

    Who speaks like this? I mean, seriously.

    If I spoke this way, I’d lose every client I have. I couldn’t even manage to order at McDonalds.

    Client: “So what do we need to close this deal?”

    Me: “Well, I have not gotten a final read on that. I know that I believe, as I’ve stated over the course of the negotiations, that there are things that I didn?t, while good policy, didn?t believe should be in the deal. And I am watching what those things are in order to see where the process moves this along.”

    (Translation: “I don’t have a clue, but I’m hoping to wrap enough words around that to keep you from noticing.”

    McDonalds: “Would you like fries with that?”

    Me: “Well, I have not gotten a final read on that. I know that I believe, as I’ve said many times over the course of ordering at your establishment, that there are things about your fries that, while delicious, I wasn’t sure should be part of my meal. And I have been thinking about what those things might be in order to see where that process leaves us in terms of my meal order.”

    McDonalds: “Lady, do you want them or not?”

    THIS is what is wrong with DC. The real answer to Todd’s question was “No.”

  • woodsman

    and seem to fit the role the Lib’s have tried to define for conservatives.

  • fisk2521

    Maybe I was just dreaming this, but I thought Obama and his party controlled the Senate and the House of representatives…. Maybe he should just declare a national emergency and take over the country and be done with it.

    Can’t Pelosi manage her people? What’s up with Reid? Is Obama actually coming to the realization after 2 weeks that his is a difficult job and that the country is actually a Democracy with individuals having the right to actually questions what he and Congress does?

    What’s the problem?

  • Maggie_in_Indiana

    is saying No tax rate cuts!

  • texas214

    would any of us allow our children to act as Obama has been; from the gloating “I won” comment to the yelling fire in the theater actions of “there will be a catastrophe”.

    He may have won, but best the example is I would have to disciple my children because they would refer to any one of their freinds acting this way as a “LOSER”.

  • Spartan4Life

    We already see you are a partisan hack that is in way over your head. Could you at least make an effort to uphold some of the dignity of our once great country?

    Why don’t you take a day off from giving a campaign speech, a press conference, or an interview and spend some time in your office. Larry Kudlow made a great point yesterday when he criticized you commenting on the non-farm payroll jobs report. He said, ” I am not sure I want the president of the United States commenting on the non-farm payroll report.”

    You’re a phony, start pretending.

  • robmikpet

    Let’s take the argument at face value. Last time tax cuts were tried 2001 or even to be fair given the economic circumstances 1981. So 25 or so years ago.

    Last time Obam’s were tried 1930′s. He gets nothing right.

    Even the results are on our side 1930′s failure, 1980′s longest, at the time, peace time economic expansion.

    SEE REPUBLICANS IT CAN BE SO EASY WE ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HISTORY AND THE ISSUE!!!!!

    STAND UP AND FIGHT!!!! Sorry for the Caps but I am actually yelling at the computer :-)

  • farstar99

    Gee, I could’ve sworn we tried the Democrats’ old ideas before and 23 million people died in the Soviet Union, 15 million in National Socialist Germany, along with countless millions in the nations savaged by the Soviets.

    Yet no Republican legislator has had the spine to respond that way to this sham of a President.