GOP senators say Obama off to bad start

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/15/obama.gop.stimulus/index.html

(CNN) -- Top Republican lawmakers Sunday called on President Obama to change his political strategy, arguing that the passage of a massive stimulus bill on a party-line vote showed he has failed to deliver the "change" he promised.

If this is going to be bipartisanship, the country's screwed," Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, told ABC's "This Week." "I know bipartisanship when I see it."

Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said Obama was off to "a bad beginning," out of step with the vow of bipartisanship both men made after Obama beat out the Republican presidential nominee for the White House in November.

"It was a bad beginning because it wasn't what we promised the American people, what President Obama promised the American people, that we would sit down together," McCain told CNN's "State of the Union With John King."

ZOMG!! We're truly SCREWN now!! Mutt and Jeff say so!!!

[Trajan]

1. Complete bullshit, of course ....

He tried bipartisanship, and they didn't want to budge ...

He fulfilled his promise, and now he is acting ...

He is bringing the CHANGE he said he would bring, and it is a HUGE breath of fresh air for most of us ...

Harry Truman once said "I don't give them hell; I just tell the truth and they THINK it's hell ..."

[norepubsin08]

2. Tell the whinning, losing GOP to go Fuck Itself!!!!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Let's see - a sore loser and his secret wife

It would seem that McPOW and Miss Lindsey aren't able to deal with reality, so, while McPOW keeps trying to find his way home, Miss Lindsey is clicking them damn ruby slippers as hard as he can, moaning, "I think I can, I think I can."

If they keep saying it, it'll become reality, right?

If that works so well, how come PRESIDENT OBAMA is in the White House, and not McPow?

Don't anyone tell them that Obama won. That he got his stimulus bill. That they're jokes.

[MrModerate]

4. I guess the most obnoxious thing is . . .

How stupid they think the American people are. It's the same approach McCain used in his presidential bid: spew silly shit that wingnuts love and expect the rest of the country to buy into it.

Note to John: It doesn't work. They're on to you. They've figured out you and your colleagues are full of shit and they're really not interested in your burbling and queeping anymore. Please spontaneously combust.

[rpannier]

5. Funny.

Because according to most polls the majority of the public blame the republikkans for the lack of bipartisanship

[Liberal Veteran]

6. Baghdad Bob is now writing all their press releases apparently.

[FrenchieCat]

7. In other news, Republican off to a dead end!

[Voice for Peace]

8. ahahahha haha hahah ahaahahaaaaahhhah haaaahahahah

:rofl:

[liberalmuse]

9. They're projecting again.

The only ones I see off to a bad start are the do-nothing, crybaby 'pubs. And McCain LOST for Chrissakes, yet he is looking more and more like a bitter, bitter old man with a grudge against our new President.

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10. I hope AZ puts him out to pasture soon - the dude is a dinosaur

[KharmaTrain]

11. CrimeaFucking River...

Yep, Gramps...America loved you so much, they rejected you as President last November...or hadn't you gotten that memo left. Or should I ask if his corporate media bar-b-que buddies haven't.

Now what is Gramps concept of "bipartisanship"? Joe Lieberman?

IRC, President Obama enjoyed a lot of repugnican support last year...and Gramps? We saw how well of a "post-partisan" campaign he ran with Joe the Plumber and the crazy rallies. Gramps should go back to skipping Senate session like he did last year, the country was a lot better off for it.

The GOOP is in full denial...they need to believe they had some kind of victory last week, despite having the Stimulas Bill rammed up their behind. They had far more of a voice in this bill than anything that was presented over the past 8 years. The more they play the obstructionists, the more they'll pay.

[Captain Hilts]

12. Then it must be a good one! nt

[sutz12]

13. They obviously have me confused with somebody who gives a shit what they think. nt

:shrug:

[mac56]

14. Translation: "We liked it better when they didn't fight back."

:rofl:

[Hubert Flottz]

15. We would have seen more of the same kind of "bipartisanship"

that we saw under Bush if McCain had been able to steal the election.(slim and none)("My Way Or The Highway")

Seems like I remember lots of republican bills being slammed through congress without time to even look at what was being voted on when the GOP ran the White House. Things like the "Patriot Act".

Seems like I remember the democrats in the House meeting in the basement and the GOP laughing at them.

I remember how Sen. Lindsey Graham loved his "bipartisan" part he played during the Clinton impeachment.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is anything but "Honorable"...I remember him calling everyone who disagreed with Bush's war in Iraq, torture of unarmed detainees and illegal spying on American Citizens, as "fifth columnists"...how fu*king "bipartisan" is that?

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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency's Surveillance Authority
Part IV of IV


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"And the administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue fifth column movements.

And let me tell folks who are watching what a fifth column movement is. It is a movement known to every war where American citizens will sympathize with the enemy and collaborate with the enemy. And it's happened in every war.

And President Roosevelt talked about, "We need to know about fifth column movements."

So my friends on the other side, I stand by this president's ability, inherent to being commander in chief, to find out about fifth column movements, and I don't think you need a warrant to do that." More...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/07/AR2006020700731.html

President Obama didn't agree with Bush's invasion of Iraq and the conduct of the war, so by Lindsey Graham's Joseph McCarthy like standards, is Mr. Obama a "Fifth Columnist"? Are we who posted our displeasure on the internet, with the "Bush Doctrine" and the sorry state of affairs being conducted in our names abroad and in this country, by the Bush administration, also Fifth Columnists by Lindsey Graham's authoritarian standards?

IMHO, Sen. Lindsey Graham and his partisan criminal counterparts in the republican party stand for just about everything that is wrong with the United States of America right now!

[Thickasabrick]

16. LOL.....I wonder what Graham thinks bipartisanship looks like eom

[20score]

17. Kind of like a bank robber complaining about a locked safe.

"How dare they!"

[book_worm]

18. Another reason for Obama to stop reaching out to the losing side.

[annabanana]

19. pfft. . . Who asked 'em? . .

oh

[DCKit]

20. They just don't get it. We're laughing at them, and they think we're laughing WITH them.

Delusional morans.