“Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’

[underpants]

Blunt: “Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no.’”

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/01/blunt-party-no/

“Just because we’re in a situation now where we vote no doesn’t mean we are the ‘party of no’ or have no ideas,” said former House Republican Whip Roy Blunt , who is running for Senate in Missouri and signed the letter. “This adds another way of getting those ideas out there.”

Blunt is claiming that they are being forced to vote no, but other Republican leaders have previously argued that consistently voting no is part of an obstructionist strategy. “What transpired . . . and will give us a shot in the arm going forward is that we are standing up on principle and just saying no,” said current House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA). NRCC Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) told House Republicans during a retreat that they needed “to get over the idea that they’re participating in legislation and ought to start thinking of themselves as ‘an insurgency’ instead.”

[Turbineguy]

1. Sounds like Monty Python

is writing their stuff.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Doesn't it though?

:rofl:

[underpants]

5. Yes it does

:bounce::rofl:

[calimary]

2. Um... no.

Hey, mr. blunt - what you just said? No.

[CJCRANE]

4. They're the party of whiners

who like to say "no".

[C_U_L8R]

6. They really don't have any ideas, do they?

I keep thinking "they can't be this stupid"
and then they go and prove me wrong again.

[ima_sinnic]

7. a little defensive, are we, about being called "party of no"? too effing bad, pukes.

now that we know how much it bothers you, we will be turning it up.

[underpants]

10. Wasn't that their big "rebranding" part of the "Reagan revolution"?

They WERE the party of NO

NO "big government"
NO to taxes
NO to any intrusion into peoples "private lives" ;-)

They are literally chasing their own tail at this point

[HooptieWagon]

8. If they insist on sounding like two year olds...

... lets continue treating them like two year olds.

[TahitiNut]

9. So, it's just a matter of what the meaning of "no" is?

Bizarre. :crazy:

[underpants]

11. Oooh

there's a turn we didn't see coming

Great point

[pepperbear]

12. No doesn't mean No? n/t

[leftofcool]

13. Hey asshole! No means NO

Blunt is a whining sack of shit

[rucky]

14. The Party of Emphatic Indifference?

naw. not the same ring to it.

[Johonny]

15. yah well we weren't the "party of no ideas" either

Sucks to be the minority party don't it.