GOP Leadership To Obama: You Never Call, You Never Write…

[babylonsister]

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/gop-leadership-to-obama-you-never-call-you-never-write/

GOP Leadership To Obama: You Never Call, You Never Write…


GOP leaders have a new complaint about President Obama: He’s not reaching out to them nearly as much as he did earlier this year, when he road-tested his pledge of post-partisanship, only to get uniformly rebuffed on his first big legislative initiative.

Here’s GOP Rep. Eric Cantor, giving voice to the new GOP gripe:

GOP leaders complain that the phone calls and White House invitations have slacked off — perhaps because Obama’s early efforts to woo Republicans yielded few votes.

“I think that in the beginning they seemed a lot more willing to go in and engage with us,” said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor.

I asked Cantor spokesperson Joe Pounder if this was the real view of House GOP leaders. He argued that while Obama engaged at the outset — watching the Super Bowl with GOPs, for instance — there were now multiple cases where Republicans had been snubbed.

For instance, Pounder said, the White House has not responded to the House GOP proposal for $375 billion in budgetary savings for the next five years. What’s more, Pounder continued, Obama has met only with Democrats on several recent occasions.

Of course, Democrats respond that Obama’s initial outreach efforts weren’t exactly reciprocated. House Republicans unanimously opposed his stimulus and his budget, and almost all of them opposed the big war spending bill. Many refused to condemn Rush Limbaugh for saying he hopes Obama fails.

On health care, a leading Republican — Senator Chuck Grassley — keeps raising the bar for what will count as “bipartisanship” from Dems. He recently suggested that a health care bill wouldn’t be truly bipartisan unless it didn’t contain any public insurance option, and also suggested it wouldn’t count as bipartisan unless it has lots of GOP support.

Of course, there’s still hope. Maybe if Obama invites Republicans to watch the All Star Game, they’ll drop their opposition to his agenda…

[sharp_stick]

1. Ahh Shucks

maybe if they didn't meet with him and then kick him in the nuts by offering zero votes on a WH proposal they would get another meeting. I think Obama simply knows that it's a waste of time to meet with the pukes and he could use the time to play with his kids.

[Kittycat]

2. Maybe if you didn't smack him in the face at every turn.

Seriously you cry babies.

[WI_DEM]

3. and what did reaching out to them accomplish?

[Selatius]

4. Let them keep crying.

If bipartisanship were the order of the day and it were a difference between merely beating you with a bat and shooting you with a handgun, the Republicans would fight until they got a compromise of stabbing you with a knife.

[SuperTrouper]

5. To GOP: Here is your consolation

[11 Bravo]

6. Obama to GOP leadership: That's because you never listen and you can't read.

I hope that clears it up.

[oldnslo]

7. You're confused-there's no GOP leadership....only sheep

bleating Naaaa, Naaaa, Naaaa........