What? so the Dems have to play fair?
Where are all your posts over the past 8 years decrying the total absence of Democrats in Bush's administration?
where did he say the democrats had to play fair? Wasn't part of the charisma and appeal of Obama being a great uniter, and one willing to reach across the aisle? I would think it is not a question of playing fair, i would think it is a question of living up to what he says he believes...if there are some centrist republicans who can be effective in his cabinet, why wouldn't he want them? Seems rather stupid, for a smart man not to consider all options.
This is the kind of two faced double standard that I ONLY see from republicans... your guys can pursue the most viciously divisive partisan politics imaginable... and no complaints do I hear...
But you demand the Democrats in power bend over backwards to be inclusive of your needs.
who has to be inclusive of the republican "needs"? By the way Phil, i know that democracy bothers you, but republicans do represent 47% of the electorate, and still have a vital role to play in the congress, just as the democrats had the vital role to speak for the minority in a republican congress.
It is not the job of the opposition to just sit around...as Obama himself said very correctly in "The Audacity Of Hope"...when referring to President Bush during his first meeting with him..."The president's eyes became fixed; his voice took on the agitated, rapid tone of someone neither accustomed to nor welcoming interruption; his easy affability was replaced by an almost messianic certainty. As I watched my mostly Republican Senate colleagues hang on his every word,
I was reminded of the dangerous isolation that power can bring, and appreciated the Founders' wisdom in designating a system to keep power in check."
the republicans for all their stupidity at times, still represent 47% of the people of this country.
Just FYI, it is the governments job to be INCLUSIVE of *ALL* its citizens needs, not just republicans or democrats, Phil.
Bush won on the narrowest margin in US history... and NOT by the popular vote but by act of the supreme court...
And HE took it as carte blanche to take the nation as far right as was humanly possible... without the slightest consideration of the middle class or poor, without the slightest nod to liberal concerns.
Baloney...Bush was never able to take the nation as far right as was possible.
If the nation was as far right as Bush and the social conservatives wanted it, we would have prayer in schools, the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, Intelligent Design would be taught nationally, Pornography would be outlawed among other things.
I don't mind if Obama includes a few republicans... just as long as they are not those nincompoops whoe BELEIVE in unregulated free markets the way other republicans believe in the rapture.
Only intelligent republicans who believe in evolution and can accept the utter failure of free market economics need apply.
I am sure there are at least 3 of those.
are those the three that are left from the centrist platform that you personally helped wipe out when you voted for Reagan, the figurehead of the religious right and far right conservatives?
Reagan didn't believe in "evolution and the utter failure of free market economics"...yet you personally voted him in to office.
nice going
Newt Gingrich has come out saying that the worst thing republicans can do right now is aggressively oppose Obama.
That that will just alienate MORE Americans who, by and large, feel we should be pulling together in this crisis...
they should not aggressively oppose him, but they do represent the views of 47% of the electorate. It is the job of the minority party to stand up for the views of those people who they represent, be they republicans or democrats.
HE also said the republicans need to own up to the failures of GOP rule these past 8 plus years... otherwise they will just make the same mistakes if they ever get in power again.
wow, gee, it took you listening to Newt Gingrich to figure that out?
Obama has a mandate to UNDO every fucking thing Bush did.
And he should do exactly that.
And one of the things Bush did in spades was to radically polarize the nation.
The left is no longer the radicals....
hate to break it you, the radical left is still just as radical as the radical right. They are both wrong, and both totally out of touch.
the left, not the Far Left, is what won this election, by attracting more independent center voters, center left and center right voters and rightly so.
The radicals are the ones pushing America into an aggressive military oppressor.
an "aggressive military oppressor"? What aggression has there been other then one unpopular war (Iraq), that is not about opression, but is a disasterous tangled quagmire? Don't even say Afghanistan, because even psychopath like yourself cannot deny that a nation absolutely has the right of self-defense, and to attack the radical Islamist Group that controlled Afghanistan and did in fact harbor and support terrorists that killed 3,000 plus innocent americans and other citizens of other countries.
even a muppet like you can figure that one out.
LOL...you are pathetic.
True republicans ought to repudiate it in the strongest possible terms.
