Republicans to Dems: If you won't play with our balls, we're taking them home.

[BurtWorm]

:patriot:

I say, Who wants to play with their nasty old balls anyway?


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020804202_pf.html


Republicans may opt out of Obama's health-care summit

By Michael D. Shear
Tuesday, February 9, 2010; A02

Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they may decline to participate in President Obama's proposed health-care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over.

In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) expressed frustration about reports that Obama intends to put the Democratic bills on the table for discussion at the summit, which would be held Feb. 25.

"If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate," Boehner and Cantor wrote.

Obama proposed the half-day summit on national television Sunday, but in their letter, the two GOP leaders offer their suspicion that the president is not serious about opening bipartisan negotiations on health-care reform.

" 'Bipartisanship' is not writing proposals of your own behind closed doors, then unveiling them and demanding Republican support," Boehner and Cantor wrote. "Bipartisan ends require bipartisan means."

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs responded by saying that Obama has sought Republican input since early last year, and that the president remains interested in hearing ideas that the GOP thinks will advance the reform cause.

But he appeared to give little ground on the idea that Obama might abandon the months of work that produced Democratic bills that passed the House and the Senate late last year.

[blogslut]

1. No sex threads!

:hi:

[BurtWorm]

3. Why, I do declayuh!

Why evah would you think this was a sex thread?

O8)

[Dr. Strange]

2. Is this a teabagger thread?

[BurtWorm]

5. Prezackly.

:patriot:

[CrispyQ]

4. Interesting how the definition of bipartisanship has changed since the repubs were in the majority,

huh?

" 'Bipartisanship' is not writing proposals of your own behind closed doors, then unveiling them and demanding Republican support," Boehner and Cantor wrote.

:eyes: Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[BurtWorm]

6. It's much easier to play the game this way.

They don't have to take responsibility, and they don't have to offer any work. They just sit on their big, fat constipated asses and wait till November, when Americans will be fed up with 'politics as usual.' There's absolutely no incentive for them to take any other tack.

[tanyev]

7. But it is writing proposals of your own behind closed doors, then unveiling

them and demanding Democrat support. Apparently.

[ChicagoSuz219]

8. I can't be the only one that remembers...

...the Max Baucus Bi-Partisan Circle Jerk.

(I think that was the official name of it... ;-) )