Last night, Barack Obama bowed to establishment
Before The Washington Post editorial board gets weepy-eyed over this banquet of bipartisan schmoozing, let’s make one thing clear: Even if he were the most prolific, solicitous, all-around charmingest dinner-host the capital had ever seen (think Kay Graham meets Dick Cavett), Obama would not have accomplished much more than he did the last two years, and possibly less.The reason, as many other commentators have spelled out, is that the limits to grand-bargaining aren’t social but structural. They’re the result of the two parties sorting themselves out along ideological lines; of a sharp move rightward among Republicans; and of basic partisan math in the House and Senate. It’s completely delusional to think these factors could be altered by a few more dreary gabfests at the Jefferson Hotel.
it would be or could be beneficial if the republicans will get off their high horse and realize they are not being paid because we like them. i feel this is the most embarrassing situation for America around the world, we have physically grown men who have to be coddled and burped after dinner in order to do what is best for "we the people" and country, maybe they should think twice about killing off kindergarten the way they act it's their alma mater they never got over.
i'm sick of their rants about "serious" they are not trying to move this country or you forward, the leaders of that party's mantra is take our country back that is more literal then one might think.
they are proposing that if you wine and dine us we'll talk to you, that's like your boss having to invite you to his house for dinner and text you back and forth wipe your mouth when you drool in order for you to come to work the next day.
Sure, the Republicans are nuttier than ever. And, sure, they have the numbers to thwart Obama’s agenda in Congress. But here’s the thing: Even with all that, the deal Obama has put on the table is very, very close to the deal John Boehner himself publicly offered last fall,1and which several Republican senators have supported in the past. Which is to say, there’s no obvious structural reason why a deal couldn’t happen.
there really has been no reason for any of the initiatives Pres. has put out, it was and still is about one term that failed now make him look bad do you realize if they don't take this serious that will be money we payed out for 8 years to the congress just to sputter around in a circle and make are lives miserable and the economy "uncertain"?
