Republicans should start acting like Obama
In his first year in office, Obama faced a popular backlash against his stimulus spending bill and saw a Republican elected to Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in a referendum on Obamacare. Yet despite these and other setbacks, the president declared he had no intention of moderating his approach. “The one thing I’m really clear about is that I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” Obama said in a January 2010 interview.
That attitude is precisely why Obama is a now two-term president.
Instead of backing down in the face of a rising tea party movement, Obama doubled down. He knew full well that that the majority of Americans disagreed with Obamacare, but he believed it was the right thing to do. So he rammed it through Congress, passing it over the near-unanimous opposition of the Republican Party and the objections of the American people.
Voters rebuked him in the 2010 midterm elections, putting the House in Republican hands. But by 2012, Americans gave Obama a second term in office. Now, Obamacare is the permanent law of the land — and Ted Kennedy’s seat is back in Democratic hands. …
Why can’t Republicans do that?
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The media.
IR-MN on January 8, 2013 at 2:20 PM
Hear hear
cmsinaz on January 8, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Because a vast number of the r’s are scared to death of bho/bhopress and just want to ‘get along’?
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letget on January 8, 2013 at 2:22 PM
Music to my ears.
Somehow we’ve managed to win elections before without the media in our pocket. Using the media as a catchall excuse isn’t really constructive. Obviously it’s a problem but if “the media” had total power we’d have had no Republican presidents since Nixon.
Doomberg on January 8, 2013 at 2:24 PM
You mean act like a spoiled child, taunt your opponents, throw figurative temper tantrums, and in general nah-nah-nah-nah-nah in the face of anyone who disagrees with you, daring him/her to push back?
The reason he can behave in the immature and spiteful way he does is because he has the media to cover for him. Will the Republicans be able to depend on such assistance?
We all know the answer to that.
Meredith on January 8, 2013 at 2:25 PM
I’d just as soon walk around buck naked while believing I look so fine and criticize those who disagree as haters, and claiming that the solid waste product I produce on a daily basis doesn’t stink.
Paul-Cincy on January 8, 2013 at 2:26 PM
No, he means Obama relentless grinding ahead like a juggernaut and getting what he wants successfully in spite of the unpopularity of his programs and major backlash from the Republican base. Those who have power do so in part because they’re willing to exercise it and use it often; the Republicans are powerless partially because they refuse to exercise any.
Look, the “gun control” issue was considered settled back in the 1990s. Despite this being “settled,” gun control advocates are still pushing for it anyway and are likely to get it this year. Contrast this “settled issue” with the “settled issue” of abortion. If conservatives aren’t willing to fight the Democrats on every issue and keep on fighting them despite setbacks, then we’re going to keep losing. This stuff about “not the hill to die on” and pick and “choose your battles” isn’t working. We’ve been trying it for twenty years; it’s obviously failed; it’s time to try something else.
Doomberg on January 8, 2013 at 2:38 PM
Because it wasn’t that Barky doubled-down on his unpopular, un-Constitutional, and thoroughly un-American policies (and continued his obviously impeachable actions) but that the cowardly, wimpy GOPers refused to do anything about any of it. The cowards in the GOP couldn’t even be bothered to publicly speak about the anti-American and insane nature of the Indonesian’s ridiculous third world idea of “ruling” over us. The GOP slimeballs couldn’t be bothered to say anything about the un-Constitutional crime of Barky issuing dictats on who shall be legal residents and who shouldn’t. The GOP cowards didn’t say jack about the illegal war in Libya (that Barky laughably didn’t even bother to mention to Congress, let alone getting Congressional approval – at the start and at the War Powers time limit).
Barky won and the dems made up ground – even in the face of their insanity, America-hate, and general third worldization of this nation – because the GOP are cowards and no one trusts cowards for ANYTHING. It had nothing to do with the fact that Barky is stubborn in his determination to destroy our Constitution and our nation but that the GOP refused to even act as if they woulf defend America.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on January 8, 2013 at 2:43 PM
The media has purged itself of people that haven’t tied the Party line over the past few decades.
Show me outside of Fox or WSJ a media group that isn’t completely Democrat. One or two places can be marginalized.
The fact of the matter is we have MOST of the country that not only doesn’t hear our side but they are fed stories about rampant racism from us and the next segment can even trot out democrats calling republican blacks minstrials who dance for house masters.
Without a decent media we can not expose the corruption in the educational system nor do people hear about Obama sacrificing Mexican lives for gun control in F&F nor do they hear about Bengazi.
To make it worse there are a lot democrats like the abuses of The Party because they know they receive the spoils of those abuses.
Where are you going to go once our fall is complete? It is not to late.
Organize and fight!
GardenGnome on January 8, 2013 at 2:52 PM
Bravo. Thiessen and AEI are like clear voices in the wilderness.
Jaibones on January 8, 2013 at 4:51 PM