sabs wrote:The Republicans are Bates Motel crazy these days.
Say it often enough, loud enough, and some of it will be believed?
FrankTrollman wrote: He has consistently bent over backwards to do the whole "bipartisanship" shit.
No, he hasn't. He's said that he does, but as you point out moments later:
FrankTrollman wrote:The fact that Republicans are whining about being excluded from the process does not in any way mean that they are actually being excluded from anything.
...saying it doesnt make it so.
FrankTrollman wrote:The cold hard reality is that the Republicans are not crazy because Obama refuses to listen to them, they are crazy because they are fucking crazy. Every time he talks to them and concedes anything at all, they just get more intransigent. It's ridiculous.
Your "cold hard reality" is remarkably soft and and relative. Exactly what concessions has he made? I guess he did reschedule his address to congress that one time. And his administration did reopen drilling after those two judgements against him. Google says he "conceded" defeat on cap and trade, but I'm not sure how the status quo is a concession to anyone.
FrankTrollman wrote:even Milton Friedman is too much of a Commie for them now
Err, what? Is your next point going to be about how Keynes was too republican because he opposed deficit spending?
FrankTrollman wrote:Obamacare is actually a Republican suggestion. It's called Romneycare.
Romney is an asshat. Romneycare is ass-haberdashery. Calling it a republican suggestion is like calling the murder of US citizens (al-Aulaqi) a democrat policy.
FrankTrollman wrote:It's an actual thing they(who?) actually put on the table, and Obama took it up as a compromise with them. And they still whine that not enough of their ideas are being used.
"make crazy compromizes..." is exactly what I said.
But the real point is that we need to put this partisan bickering aside, and agree that I'm right.