Obama Earns Respect From Senator Inhofe

[ezgoingrl]

I found this "interesting" :sarcasm: article in my local newspaper:

Obama earns respect from Sen. Inhofe
By Cindy Allen Managing Editor

President Barack Obama has been in office less than a week, but he’s already earned some respect from one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., was in Enid Friday to visit Vance Air Force Base and visit with officials here about what he foresees in the political environment for the military. So far, Inhofe thinks Obama has struck the right tone as far as support for the military.

“If you’ll look at last Tuesday’s inaugural message, there were two strong military messages,” Inhofe said. “I think a lot of that he is a very smart person, he knew what he had to do to get elected and he had the far left clearly on his side. Now, he’s rising to the occasion of governing. I believe that.”

Inhofe said he was im-pressed with the scene in Washington on inauguration day. He said he awoke at 5 a.m. and went out on the mall to walk among the people.

The rest of the article can be found here: http://www.enidnews.com/localnews/local_story_024234954.html

Edit: added said quotation marks and sarcasm emoticon thingy.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Don't believe that snake for one second. Link...

GOP Strategy: Embrace Obama
Stimulus Reveals Republican Party Plans to Appear Bipartisan, While Slamming Dems
By David Weigel 1/23/09 6:00 AM

~snip~

"House Republicans are in unfamiliar and politically unpromising territory. Unlike their counterparts in the Senate, they have very few methods of slowing down or stopping legislation they don’t like. Their influence was reduced two weeks ago by a rule change that effectively prevents members of the minority party from forcing votes on controversial amendments, one of the few cudgels the party had in the House.

"In response, Republicans are attempting to link themselves to the popular Obama administration while criticizing the work of the Democratic Congress. The goal is to oppose Democratic policy without being seen as opposing or obstructing the president, a posture that, they hope, will put them in better position to win back voters if the Democrats’ popularity falters.

~snip~

"Republican sources did not label the strategy “triangulation,” as a report in Roll Call did yesterday. But they did not deny that the portrayal of Obama as a working partner and the congressional Democrats as obstinate partisans was a reflection of the popularity of the two branches. The new president boasts approval ratings north of 70 percent; the Congress is mired in the 30s. “His message is bipartisanship,” said one Republican, referring to the president. “Their message is ‘trust us to spend your money.’”

~snip~

“We should not treat Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, the way that the Bush administration treated Iran-’You’re a bad person and we don’t want to talk to you,’” said Norquist. “We engage the Democrats by being cheerful and pleasant and open to conversation. They say they want 10 ideas? OK, here are 10 ideas. The next time they say they want 10 ideas, we say that they asked before, and, just for the record, they rejected our ideas. When you get to May, who’s the obstructionist and who’s the collaborator?”

more...

http://washingtonindependent.com/26964/gop-strategy-embrace-obama

NGU.

[ezgoingrl]

2. I don't either.

I should have put interesting in quotations and used the sarcasm emoticon. I think Inhofe is a slimy sucker doing whatever he thinks will get him ahead at any given moment. I cannot stand to even look at his sorry butt.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Re: your avatar..... Hal? Curious. n/t

[ezgoingrl]

4. Wallace and Gromit

They're British. The human really likes cheese.

[ClassWarrior]

5. Curious?

It's a good movie and the avatar is in the DU library. What's your point?

NGU.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. No point... just wondering how well my aging memory is

serving me.... it's been years and years since I saw it... and I just make note of it to see if I was right... didn't know it was in the library though...

[ruggerson]

7. Seeing as he is the biggest ass in the Senate

(with Coburn coming in a close second), I don't take anything he says very seriously.

[liberalpragmatist]

8. Oklahoma must have the worst Senate delegation in the country, by far

Yeah, lots of states have odious pairs of Republicans. But I think the OK delegation has to take the cake.