It seems that Obama's move to bring Republicans closer...

[Lost-in-FL]

is pushing the GOP to go far right (very far right). Am I the only one seen this trend?

Meanwhile at work, republicans are wery, wery, quiet.

[FrenchieCat]

1. Turning them into what they are anyways......

extremists!

[Narkos]

2. I often wonder if that was the plan all along n/t

[Kittycat]

3. No one wants to be in the fringe

I hope they enjoy it :rofl:

[Richard D]

4. He held out his hands

they bit him. Now he's free to do what he needs to do without them. And he can say he tried, which he did - far more than the republicans ever tried to work with the Democrats.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. And now we get the 50-vote ploy.

No more Mr. Nice Guy. Of COURSE he knew he was going there. What's the secret of Obama's strategy? Timing.

[gratuitous]

6. I don't think anyone could have predicted . . .

That Republicans would be a bunch of suspicious, self-serving jerkwads who would put party above country, and look like a bunch of whiny ass titty babies.

I mean, gee whiz, what a gamble.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Yes you could see 1930s

remember kiddies the more moderate Ike Republicans were the kids of the idiots who fought FDR every step of the way

[BlooInBloo]

7. I'm all for the republicans becoming more a regional party, and more marginalized.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

8. The President is a master of political jiu-jitsu

Use your attacker's momentum against him. If they pull, push and vice versa. Obama started gaming this out as soon as he became POTUS-elect. The man thinks ten moves ahead, and this drives the simpleton Repigs out of their tiny little minds.

[Lint Head]

9. Obama better watch his back. These sneaky ass wipes will

do anything. It is over for them and some of these idiots will go down fighting and take people with them.
:dem:

[Horse with no Name]

10. The republicans I work with fall strictly into two categories

1. Hate Obama but realize that if he fails, we all fail. (These are my sane colleagues)
2. Radical. Previously responsible professional people deciding that they are going to max out their credit cards and live off of them until they are maxed then dump them like a cheap dress. After all, that's what everybody does when Democrats are in office, don't they?
Expect for the government to take care of them. They are just getting in line. I had a fucking anesthesiologist who worshiped Bewsh.
He QUIT his job the day Obama was elected. Said he wasn't giving another penny to the government so they could hand it out. His way of doing that? Quit paying taxes out of his payroll. (These are the loons)

[TheWraith]

11. Yep. Obama's offering them the chance of joining hands, or jumping off the cliff.

99% of them won't join hands because they don't want to lose the support of their screaming lunatic fringe base.

[47of74]

12. I don't suppose you'd be interested in trading your coworkers with mine?

The Republican co-workers I've been inflicted with are loud and obnoxious. I could deal with quiet Republicans.

[stillcool]

13. they have no where else to go...

[Odin2005]

14. Obama is driving them into a suicudal madness. And I'm loving every minute of it.

I'm reminded of that pic of Wall Street wit the "JUMP, YOU FUCKERS" sign.

If the nutjobs try to do any of the revolt and revolution hilarity they are screaming about we will destroy them and the GOP as traitors to the republic. Let the fuckers try it.

[Old and In the Way]

15. It does seem that Republican legislators cannot be seen as working with the enemy.

Any instance of bi-partisanship is now perceived as treason and the punishment is to get voted out in the primary. I hope that the moderate Republicans (endangered species that they are) will simply switch allegiances and join the reality based political party. I really think the GOP has gone off the tracks and is beginning to self-destruct. Moving further to the right will not win them future elections.

[KharmaTrain]

17. A Rovian Trick...Attack The "Strength"

I'm not sure who designed the strategy...Plouffe, Axelrod, Emmanuel, maybe President Obama himself, but someone grabbed Rove's playbook and turn it on the GOOP. Go after their perceived "strength" and either divide them (which is currently happening) or for them to the extremes and you both appear reasonable and grab the middle ground.

President Obama knew the political lay of the land in the beltway...as did others and instead of running from it or over it, he ran right at it. That's what "post-partisan" is about...and it's caught both the GOOP and the corporate media totally off guard. It makes the media look like fools everytime they underestimate President Obama or doubt his skills and he rams it up their patoot. By trying to reach with an open hand and knowing he'd get spitballs in return, he's framed the GOOP as obstructionists (which they are) and the problem, not the solution. As longer people see the GOOP as the problem, the deeper their problems get...and they still don't see it. They think obstruction is being "strong"...it's pushing them off the political abyss.