Many Republicans came out on DAY 1 of his presidency and stated they would oppose every piece of legislation he attempted, and they did just that. A good friend of mine staunchly supported Oklahoma lawmakers as they opposed him without merit, when I asked him why he was fine with that he stated it was exactly how he felt and what he wanted his elected officials doing. This wasn't just an issue in Oklahoma, it was nationwide.
"The event — which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured — serves as the prologue of Robert Draper’s much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, “Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives.” According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) — who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama’s legislative platform.
“If you act like you’re the minority, you’re going to stay in the minority,” Draper quotes McCarthy as saying. “We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign.”
But ya, it was Obama refusing to work with the GOP.
And now, they expect unit.
lol do you feel you made some kind of point here? That liberal talking point is old and irrelevant today as it was back then. They are both to blame. Obama had 8 years to get them to work together and do the people's work. He failed big. Spin it all you want.
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chico2663
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#2102
This is the last 2 times that repubs had house , senate and presidency was w's admin and 1928 wall street crash. We are in for a ride.
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itchypickle
SBR Posting Legend
11-05-09
21452
#2103
Originally posted by rkelly110
Trump Putin's puppet
Obama 😂😂 Iran....Mahmoud Abbas...Muslim Brotherhood...Syrian Rebels' puppet 😂😂😂😂 and he's Assad's bitch boy who threatened a red line but only line he put down was a line of piss dripping from his pants when he got called out on it.
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The Kraken
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12-25-11
28918
#2104
Originally posted by DwightShrute
lol do you feel you made some kind of point here? That liberal talking point is old and irrelevant today as it was back then. They are both to blame. Obama had 8 years to get them to work together and do the people's work. He failed big. Spin it all you want.
The point is clear and it's still relevant, Republicans never gave Obama any chance to work with them, as the quotes and the video above show. It has to go both ways. The fact you actually argue against it just furthers my other point today which is that you stand for nothing, you simply argue against. You're the exact definition of what a troll is. So congrats, snowflake
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reigle9
SBR Posting Legend
10-25-07
17879
#2105
Lol, no way that dude won woman of the year. Hahaha.
Dude with of the year, whatever yo. You can cover your body in , but you're still a dude.
Amazing what the masses have been tricked/guilted into thinking.
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DwightShrute
SBR Aristocracy
01-17-09
103765
#2106
Originally posted by The Kraken
The point is clear and it's still relevant, Republicans never gave Obama any chance to work with them, as the quotes and the video above show. It has to go both ways. The fact you actually argue against it just furthers my other point today which is that you stand for nothing, you simply argue against. You're the exact definition of what a troll is. So congrats, snowflake
wrong. A snowflake is like Obama and his supporters crying on how they refused to work with me. Blah blah sob sob. Bunch of babies. Life isn't always easy but the true leaders with always prevail. Look at Trump for example. He had the dems against him. He had the republicans against him. The media. Almost everyone. Did he whine and complain like you and Obama? No, he figured out a way and he won. That's a leader. A winner. Trump had a year and a half to figure it out. Obama has 8 years. Fail.
If you can't grasp this, then you are beyond hope. No wonder you resort to race baiting. You got nothing else but excuses and lies.
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jt315
SBR Posting Legend
11-12-11
22115
#2107
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I bet Caitlyn still has a bigger pair.
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RoyBacon
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37074
#2108
Obama had the House and Senate for the first two years. He did nothing mainly because he feared a midterm backlash. That was why nothing was done on immigration, you may recall.
Nothing wrong with elected democrats opposing GOP policy when it is legislated.
That is different than seeing classless liberals opposing Trump as president and doing all they can do to attack him before he is even inaugurated. Bush and the right did not act the same 8 years ago. You would think that with over 1,000 elected democratic seats lost since Obama was elected that democrats would have learned to lose with a little class...guess not.
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rkelly110
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39691
#2109
Originally posted by itchypickle
Obama Iran....Mahmoud Abbas...Muslim Brotherhood...Syrian Rebels' puppet and he's Assad's bitch boy who threatened a red line but only line he put down was a line of piss dripping from his pants when he got called out on it.
And I really think you believe that. The way I remember it, we weren't sure who used chemical weapons.
Assad or the rebels? Assad didn't admit to using them and the rebels didn't deny using them. Who do you draw
the line on? There hasn't been any use since.
Obama didn't want to get into a conflict with Russia either, who were moving in at the time.
Why the hell do we have to be the world police all the time? You guys bitch about us getting involved and
bitch when we don't. You're like bipolar wackjobs. Make up your minds!
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rkelly110
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#2110
Originally posted by RoyBacon
Obama had the House and Senate for the first two years. He did nothing mainly because he feared a midterm backlash. That was why nothing was done on immigration, you may recall.
Nothing wrong with elected democrats opposing GOP policy when it is legislated.
That is different than seeing classless liberals opposing Trump as president and doing all they can do to attack him before he is even inaugurated. Bush and the right did not act the same 8 years ago. You would think that with over 1,000 elected democratic seats lost since Obama was elected that democrats would have learned to lose with a little class...guess not.
Classless? Were you awake during Trump's run? Remember all the little baby names he called other candidates?
Your boy ran a hate filled campaign. He wins and all of a sudden we are suppose to forget all of that and love
him? He won't let us. The moron is still playing baby twitter games.
Look in the mirror pal before calling someone else classless.
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DwightShrute
SBR Aristocracy
01-17-09
103765
#2111
Originally posted by rkelly110
Classless? Were you awake during Trump's run? Remember all the little baby names he called other candidates?
Your boy ran a hate filled campaign. He wins and all of a sudden we are suppose to forget all of that and love
him? He won't let us. The moron is still playing baby twitter games.
Look in the mirror pal before calling someone else classless.
have you read some of your posts? You don't seem to like something you do quite a lot of.
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thetrinity
SBR Posting Legend
01-25-11
22434
#2112
Originally posted by DwightShrute
have you read some of your posts? You don't seem to like something you do quite a lot of.
It's the typical liberal mindset do as I say not as I do
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laker5
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07-23-15
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#2113
Originally posted by The Kraken
That doesn't change what I wrote, you do realize that, right?
You talk like you're name should be Cracken.
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chico2663
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#2114
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itchypickle
SBR Posting Legend
11-05-09
21452
#2115
Originally posted by rkelly110
And I really think you believe that. The way I remember it, we weren't sure who used chemical weapons.
Assad or the rebels? Assad didn't admit to using them and the rebels didn't deny using them. Who do you draw
the line on? There hasn't been any use since.
Obama didn't want to get into a conflict with Russia either, who were moving in at the time.
Why the hell do we have to be the world police all the time? You guys bitch about us getting involved and
bitch when we don't. You're like bipolar wackjobs. Make up your minds!
Libya and Syria are two of the worst human disasters in years and its all on Obama and Hillary's hands...their pie in the sky hope that protests would lead to dictators stepping down and pushed it as if we'd back them ...then when it started going south no help and once the slaughters started we turned the other way and now sadists from all over the region have flooded in with agendas and Obama screws up again and backs them with weapons now they broke ranks are building up their strength to do same thing as ISIS. As a consequence you have children being put in cages and burned alive....all sorts of sick shitt and the rest are fleeing and guess where they are headed? Nebraska and other places here and Europe and then when people start dying because of that ...Obama is there to say be nice to them ....they arebtvuse to this life and wonder why they had to flee? So yea it pisses me off...and no we don't have to be the world police but we damn sure shouldn't be forming the worlds gangs and setting off fights among them either.
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chico2663
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#2116
Looks like trump is going to privatize the V.A. .
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The Kraken
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12-25-11
28918
#2117
Medicare and SS right after the VA
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chico2663
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36915
#2118
People don't realize the v.a can buy medicine in bulk Insulin from the v.a. runs $9.00 for insulin for 2 vials. On the market it runs $225.00 per vial. The v.a makes money on that
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pilebuck13
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05-15-15
17918
#2119
Krank how u doing bro
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kidcudi92
SBR Posting Legend
12-14-11
15434
#2120
i am very happy because time is ticking on barry
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chico2663
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#2121
Originally posted by kidcudi92
i am very happy because time is ticking on barry
Get back to me in year 3 when we are in a recession. But i'm sure you made a fortune the last 2 years of w
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itchypickle
SBR Posting Legend
11-05-09
21452
#2122
Originally posted by chico2663
Looks like trump is going to privatize the V.A. .
Lot of it is basically privatized already...if cutting out the middle referrals from your Primary care to specialist or clinic saves time and money why not? TMCs and the big hospitals on posts are still a mess....definitely needs to be something done. And Tricare has been getting dropped more and more as well as prescription coverage outside radious and networks.
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chico2663
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#2123
Originally posted by itchypickle
Lot of it is basically privatized already...if cutting out the middle referrals from your Primary care to specialist or clinic saves time and money why not? TMCs and the big hospitals on posts are still a mess....definitely needs to be something done. And Tricare has been getting dropped more and more as well as prescription coverage outside radious and networks.
well plan on your scrips going up 20 x's. Also reg hospitals can't handle ptsd.
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kidcudi92
SBR Posting Legend
12-14-11
15434
#2124
Originally posted by chico2663
Get back to me in year 3 when we are in a recession. But i'm sure you made a fortune the last 2 years of w
the economy is going to blow up one way or another
it will be way worse than 2008
world economy needs a reset and its going to be very ugly when the bankers finally decide to pull the QE feeding tube
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khicks26
SBR Aristocracy
09-16-06
45704
#2125
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itchypickle
SBR Posting Legend
11-05-09
21452
#2126
Originally posted by chico2663
well plan on your scrips going up 20 x's. Also reg hospitals can't handle ptsd.
Hopefully they'll be smarter under it than they were about Obamacare...carve out treatment solely for Vets and then negotiate terms and rates based on it. Small percentage of population. I'm fine with prescriptions staying under VA for now...and PTSD/TBI you're right but even the VA is screwing it up. Units not helping much for active duty either...well last time I was around it maybe it's changed since...but I still hear guys at Camp Hope bitching about it so doubt it. It's a joke really the way you can go in firca sprained ankle and they give you a questionnaire asking if you might be suffering from it....if you say yes it's stigmatized and effects orders and duty status...say no and have to deal with it on your own...find a good Dr who tries to work the middle and you end up just on continuous cycle of meds. Really sad.
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DwightShrute
SBR Aristocracy
01-17-09
103765
#2127
Originally posted by rkelly110
Where are celebrities going to be at Trumps inauguration?
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rkelly110
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10-05-09
39691
#2128
Originally posted by itchypickle
Libya and Syria are two of the worst human disasters in years and its all on Obama and Hillary's hands...their pie in the sky hope that protests would lead to dictators stepping down and pushed it as if we'd back them ...then when it started going south no help and once the slaughters started we turned the other way and now sadists from all over the region have flooded in with agendas and Obama screws up again and backs them with weapons now they broke ranks are building up their strength to do same thing as ISIS. As a consequence you have children being put in cages and burned alive....all sorts of sick shitt and the rest are fleeing and guess where they are headed? Nebraska and other places here and Europe and then when people start dying because of that ...Obama is there to say be nice to them ....they arebtvuse to this life and wonder why they had to flee? So yea it pisses me off...and no we don't have to be the world police but we damn sure shouldn't be forming the worlds gangs and setting off fights among them either.
Arab spring? I guess Obama and Hillary invented that for billions of Arabs?
No, they didn't like those leaders and neither did the Repubs in congress. When you give money to those
countries you can voice your opinion, but it's up to the people.
If you remember, McCain wanted to arm Syrian rebels. We ultimately didn't, so there goes your mute point
of us arming them.
We can go all day on the creation of ISIS. I will be right and you will be wrong and vise versa.
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rkelly110
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10-05-09
39691
#2129
Originally posted by DwightShrute
Bristol? Give her a beer and in less than hour her legs will be wrapped around your waist. Slut.
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brooks85
SBR Aristocracy
01-05-09
44709
#2130
Originally posted by rkelly110
Bristol? Give her a beer and in less than hour her legs will be wrapped around your waist. Slut.
not as bad as your daughter gang banging black dudes and mexicans. With the kind of father you are no doubt she is a serious whore. I wouldn't touch her tho, I have standards and not interested in trash that comes out of your house.
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chico2663
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09-02-10
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#2131
Originally posted by brooks85
not as bad as your daughter gang banging black dudes and mexicans. With the kind of father you are no doubt she is a serious whore. I wouldn't touch her tho, I have standards and not interested in trash that comes out of your house.
All the tramps in the world and you still got to buy puuusssssy
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brooks85
SBR Aristocracy
01-05-09
44709
#2132
^see, even chico knows your daughter is a whore rkelly. I wish I could be there the day she tells you she is pregnant and naming the kid DeQuan.
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chico2663
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#2133
Yes those repubs worked with him
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DwightShrute
SBR Aristocracy
01-17-09
103765
#2134
Originally posted by rkelly110
Bristol? Give her a beer and in less than hour her legs will be wrapped around your waist. Slut.
Your Obama deflection (about beer and slut) doesn't, in no way, take away from the accuracy of her quote. You know its true, I know its true and everyone else knows its true. Pretending or deflecting won't change it.
one more time. 100% ACCURATE!
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itchypickle
SBR Posting Legend
11-05-09
21452
#2135
It's true. Donald used to do SNL and did skits the gay cast of will and grace...danced with Ellen...friends with Oprah. Everyone liked him until the media turned on him then suddenly he's a sociopathic Klan member