GOP: Obama Never Confirmed Meeting With Us

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GOP: Obama Never Confirmed Meeting With Us

Posted by Brian Montopoli

The White House sent an email around 6:30 p.m. yesterday saying that a planned meeting tomorrow involving President Obama and the top congressional leaders had been postponed at the request of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. John Boehner, the likely Speaker in the new GOP-controlled House.

The White House attributed the decision to move the meeting to November 30th "to scheduling conflicts" that Republicans faced "in organizing their caucuses."

But Republicans are asserting that they had never agreed to the meeting in the first place.

It "wasn't postponed; the date was never set in stone," McConnell spokesman Don Stewart told CBS News.

Both publicly and privately, Republicans are complaining that the White House never asked if the November 18th date worked for them, instead simply announcing that the meeting would take place that day. They said the date was essentially unworkable from the beginning, since Republicans would be busy this week welcoming new members and organizing their caucuses.

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[dave29]

1. To everyone who buys the "Obama is weak" sauce

please look at the GOP brand. They sure know how to fluff up their own feathers, and scare all of you into thinking Obama is the weak one.

Why do you buy it?

[budkin]

9. He needs to call them out... stop taking their shit

[FrenchieCat]

21. We need to fucking call them out........

or are you just sitting in the bleachers too busy throwing spit balls at your own team
to bother?

[rug]

16. He will win this battle of who stood up who.

[TomCADem]

26. GOP Psy-Ops Posing As Liberals Cheering On The GOP

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Translated: Obama forgot the silver platter.

[nunyabidness]

3. He`s the President of the United States. You don`t pencil him in. You go. Or you go home.

[rucky]

4. How did we all know about the meeting?

[emulatorloo]

5. LOL - McConnell knew about it too, he's lying.

Q: How can you tell if McConnell is lying?

A: His lips are moving.

[lumpy]

25. Kyl is an obstructionist of the worst order. The GOPissers are

bent on trying to bring the President of the US down by any means possible. They have absolutely no respect for the presidential office or the even the offices they hold. The bastards are unAmerican and their actions are traitorous to the Constitution.

[young but wise]

6. +1

Fucking liars.

[rasputin1952]

11. LOL...I was thinking the exact same thing...

hell, this is just another Grandstand Act from the clowncar known as the GOP "leadership"...idiots.

[Nancy Waterman]

19. It was all over the news for weeks

They just like to play victim. It is their excuse for everything.

[ksoze]

7. Have the meeting without them

set up cardboard cutouts of them sitting in chairs and have Obama rip them new ones. And throw food at the standees once in a while for good measure.

[Whisp]

20. lol. thanks for the laugh. so rare here lately.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I'm picturing that scenario in my mind's eye and woah.


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



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[polichick]

8. The prez should show that their disrespect has a price - don't reschedule...

Work with Dems around them - make great use of the lame duck session and take as many executive moves as he can to further his agenda.

[Beerball1]

10. + + +

agree with Polichick 100%

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. I don't suppose that they could've called him themselves and ASKED???

:shrug: :banghead:

#McConnellRepublicanfail#

[Uzybone]

13. This disrespect toward the office of POTUS is almost unprecendented

[cilla4progress]

18. Yeah...wonder why

[struggle4progress]

14. Transcript:

GOP: So how about the 18th?
White House: That's good for us
GOP: So you'll confirm?
White House: Just did! Confirmed!
GOP: So when do you think you'll know if the 18th is OK?
White House: We know! It's OK!
GOP: So you'll RSVP sometime soon?
White House: RSVPing now! We'll be there!
GOP: So how long will it take you to check is your calendar is open that day?
White House: Already checked! It's open! We're looking forward to seeing you!
GOP: So -- get back to us on this ASAP please ...

[RBInMaine]

15. Asshat reply.

[yellowcanine]

17. What a bunch of cry babies. Man up, pubbies!

[madamesilverspurs]

22. Hmmm, there's more than a whiff

of the stuff that covers the ground at the feedlots around here, you know, the stuff Ken Buck bragged about having on his boots . . .

[jenmito]

23. For once, it looks like the media is covering this as a Repub. snub, saying

the Repubs. are scared Obama will "ambush" (destroy) them again like he did when he kicked their butts in MD when they invited him to their retreat.

[kentuck]

24. "Obama never confirmed meeting with us..."?

or... "...and we never felt the need or obligation to tell the public about it until just before we were to meet...we just found about it or we would have told the people about it earlier...but we decided days ago not to meet with the President. It would not be to our political advantage...we simply thought it best not to get into a debate with the President at this time..."