I apologize to PoliticusUSA for reposting this but it's too good not to spread aroubd as much as possible. The original address is here:
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/20/mitch-mcconnell-promises-massive-government-shutdown-republicans-win-senate.html#ajaxed-comments
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Mitch McConnell is already making plans for after Republicans take over the Senate, and his top priority is to get Obama to give him what he wants or he will shutdown the government.
McConnell was upfront with Politico about his plans,
Mitch McConnell has a game plan to confront President Barack Obama with a stark choice next year: Accept bills reining in the administration’s policies, or veto them and risk a government shutdown.
In an extensive interview, the typically reserved McConnell laid out his clearest thinking yet of how he would lead the Senate if Republicans gain control of the chamber. The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.
Republicans tried to play this game with President Obama last year, and it nearly destroyed their party. McConnell is clinging to the idea that the president will cave, but Obama has no reason to give Republicans anything. He will be closing in on the end of his term by the time Republicans would take over the Senate in January 2015.
A prolonged government shutdown in 2015 or 2016 would be a disaster for the Republican Party. Obama will not be blamed for a government shutdown. Republicans will take the heat, and the damage would intense if they pursued this tactic in the middle of a presidential campaign.
A shutdown would also help likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton because it would hand her the argument for why she must be elected president, and Democrats need to take over Congress.
It takes a great deal of hubris for McConnell to be planning how he is going to shutdown Obama for the next two years, while he is the middle of a reelection campaign that he could easily lose.
McConnell is completely clueless. He continues to obsess over President Obama while ignoring the voters in Kentucky. Mitch McConnell demonstrated why Republicans should not be given control of the Senate, and why he deserves to lose his seat this November.
The easiest way to solve all of these problems is for Kentucky voters to retire Mitch McConnell.
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Costing the country billions, causing thousands to lose jobs & homes (no job, no mort payments), further lower world opinion of us, make folks so totally disgusted w/ GOP (& Dominionist masters) that they'll realize the full danger of GOP failed austerity & repressive social policies... Hmmm one bright spot in the plan....
Thursday, August 21, 2014
Monday, August 11, 2014
Repubs seem to have as much respect for facts as they do for Pres Obama
At the bottom are the John Boehner Google+ post and a respons by another delusional (or just sorely misinformed) Obama-hater. This is my rebuttal:
Rich, First of all, presuming you're an American citizen, Obama is also YOUR president, whether or not you voted for him.
I also presume you preferred GW Bush, who, btw, took more vacations than other pres - total 879 days (Reagan took 335). Obama, on the other hand, has so far taken only 125 while Bush had already taken 407 by the same point in his terms. Before parroting criticism, check your facts.
As for working w/ Congress, it's tough when they'd rather block attempts to move the country forward and improve lives of all. Have you forgotten that day after he was elected, top GOP proudly claimed their No 1 priority was making him a 1-term pres? Working together is a 2-way street. Repubs are still hung up on the idea that "compromise" is a 4-letter word.
"President is not a king." True. But when congress refuses to act, pres has to. As for overreaching, Bush was fond of "signing statements" on passed bills meaning he didn't care what law said, he'd do things his iwn way. And any liberties w/ executive power Pres Obama has taken (or seemed to) were gicen him after a 40-year effort by Cheney and friends to restore the ones taken away by Church Committee after Nixon abused any privileges he had. If a Repub was in White House battling a non-compliant congress, you'd probably praise him.
I understand your confusion. You obviously pay more attention to the misinformation and outright lies by FoxNews & Rush than you do to factual, and reality-based reports.
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Posts to which I was responding are below:
On Monday, August 11, 2014, Rich White (Google+)
> +P. A. nichols what are you talking about? Every time Congress convenes you guys claim they're on vacation all the time. Your president takes a vacation once a month. Right now Congress in solving America's problems. The biggest problems America has policies your president is trying to pass. They are doing a great service to America by stopping it. The president is not a king. He cannot dictate what happens. He has to work with the Congress and as long as you refuse to do that they will continue...
Both were comments to:
> John Boehner
> President Obama faces a choice: He can work with Congress to deal with the tough issues, or he can go it alone and cement a legacy of increased polarization, partisanship and lawlessness. → http://j.mp/1vmbikl
Rich, First of all, presuming you're an American citizen, Obama is also YOUR president, whether or not you voted for him.
I also presume you preferred GW Bush, who, btw, took more vacations than other pres - total 879 days (Reagan took 335). Obama, on the other hand, has so far taken only 125 while Bush had already taken 407 by the same point in his terms. Before parroting criticism, check your facts.
As for working w/ Congress, it's tough when they'd rather block attempts to move the country forward and improve lives of all. Have you forgotten that day after he was elected, top GOP proudly claimed their No 1 priority was making him a 1-term pres? Working together is a 2-way street. Repubs are still hung up on the idea that "compromise" is a 4-letter word.
"President is not a king." True. But when congress refuses to act, pres has to. As for overreaching, Bush was fond of "signing statements" on passed bills meaning he didn't care what law said, he'd do things his iwn way. And any liberties w/ executive power Pres Obama has taken (or seemed to) were gicen him after a 40-year effort by Cheney and friends to restore the ones taken away by Church Committee after Nixon abused any privileges he had. If a Repub was in White House battling a non-compliant congress, you'd probably praise him.
I understand your confusion. You obviously pay more attention to the misinformation and outright lies by FoxNews & Rush than you do to factual, and reality-based reports.
_____
Posts to which I was responding are below:
On Monday, August 11, 2014, Rich White (Google+)
> +P. A. nichols what are you talking about? Every time Congress convenes you guys claim they're on vacation all the time. Your president takes a vacation once a month. Right now Congress in solving America's problems. The biggest problems America has policies your president is trying to pass. They are doing a great service to America by stopping it. The president is not a king. He cannot dictate what happens. He has to work with the Congress and as long as you refuse to do that they will continue...
Both were comments to:
> John Boehner
> President Obama faces a choice: He can work with Congress to deal with the tough issues, or he can go it alone and cement a legacy of increased polarization, partisanship and lawlessness. → http://j.mp/1vmbikl
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