Comments on: Obama to Republicans

By: Shane Hoversten

Shane Hoversten — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:11:00 +0000

At first I thought you were talking about my grant proposal, and I was like:
Brody is very nice all of a sudden.

Dang. ;(

By: Shane Hoversten

Shane Hoversten — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:11:00 +0000

At first I thought you were talking about my grant proposal, and I was like:
Brody is very nice all of a sudden.

Dang. ;(

By: nagasaki

nagasaki — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:11:19 +0000

Its inspiring and incredible, if that's not redundant. However, it does nothing to improve the forebodding feeling I've had for awhile that the US financial system just may be fucked. Not that it isn't entirely fixable, but no way is any politician going to risk their career over it. Have you read the highlights today of the budget proposal party responses? Democrats are pissed that the spending cuts go to far. Republicans are convinced socialism is emminent because Obama wants to regress taxes back to what we had under Clinton (well actually the tax rates would still be lower than that, but who cares about facts). Oh well. Here's to hoping.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:13:42 +0000

Truth. The sad thing is that everyone he was talking to knew exactly what they were doing and did it anyway. Take this quote from after the event:

“It makes my job a little easier than if he were moving to the middle and picking up people,” McConnell says. “I naïvely thought he was going to do a course correction.”

Mitch McConnell is the Senate Minority Leader. Kind of perverse that he thinks his job gets *harder* the more Obama compromises with him, huh?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:27:54 +0000

According to an analyst I heard on MPR, it's never happened before. The closest they've come to having this candid a conversation was Lyndon Johnson's phone calls to the opposition party in the '60s. And those tapes were just released – nobody else heard them at the time. Also, according to this analyst (sorry don't remember who it was), there probably won't be many more of them because Obama came across looking too good compared to the Repubs and the GOP/RNC can't allow that.

And Shane, amen to your comments.

By: houlios

houlios — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:32:28 +0000

I've only been following politics since 9/11 so I don't have the longest frame of reference here, but I don't remember any president ever just offering himself up and taking questions from the other party's congressmen and televising it. Has this ever been done before?

Meanwhile, Sarah Bleeping Palin has never even given one single press conference but ~33% of the country thinks she'd be the greatest president in the history of hockey moms.