• House GOP annoyed Obama campaigns so much for their rivals in the next Congressional election, compl
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[quote]President Barack Obama is about to launch his most concerted effort yet to help Democrats win full control of Congress, a foray that could bolster the party in the 2014 midterm elections but threatens to undercut his efforts to win Republican support for his second-term initiatives on immigration, gun control and the budget. Mr. Obama is headlining fundraisers in San Francisco next week for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the organization that helps House candidates, the kickoff of a political blitz unlike anything he did in his first term to help party's congressional wing. [B]All told, Mr. Obama has agreed to headline about 21 party fundraising events this year alone.[/B] In addition, Vice President Joe Biden already has jumped into the fray, speaking at a House campaign event in New York last weekend. "The country's ready to move and we have a House of Representatives that is in the way right now," Mr. Biden said in New York. And both Messrs. [B]Obama and Biden have agreed to help recruit candidates for the party.[/B] Democrats are delighted. [B]But the president's intensified partisan commitment fuels a Republican view that Mr. Obama wants his party to control Congress for the final two years[/B] of his presidency more than he wants bipartisan achievements in the next two years. [B]"He's the president who never ends the campaign," said Rep. Greg Walden (R., Ore.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "So we see a couple quick trips up to Capitol Hill to say 'Can't we get along?' then there's the never-ending campaign to take out Republicans."[/B] [/quote] [url]http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323361804578390440339958624.html?mod=WSJ_Election_MIDDLETopStories[/url]
The GOP has never supported a single one of Obama's congressional initiatives. He can't possibly alienate them into doing less than they already do. The only way anything is getting solved is to achieve 60 votes in the Senate and a majority in the House. The Republicans don't fucking care about anything except blocking everything the Democrats try to do and tanking the entire country in the hopes of putting enough blame on the Democrats to get themselves back into power again. They have no right to cry about partisanship when their entire stated goal is to dismantle the government by refusing to pass anything.
What do they expect? They're the party of "no" and have declined every chance at bipartisanship for their own party politics
He needs to give the Republicans the curbstomp before they can do any more damage to this country. Not that Obama and the Democrats are perfect, but they are much better.
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