[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piVnArp9ZE0[/youtube]
…and Erick Erickson, who drops some wisdom on the House GOP Caucus:
Nonetheless, from that speech in September until today, Barack Obama has insisted the GOP had no proposals. He insisted the Democrats work behind closed doors and shut out the GOP.
Now, because the House Republicans gave the President a chance to improve his image at their retreat, Obama wants to sit down with Republicans at his guest house in front of TV cameras and discuss the proposals the GOP has had all along that he pretends he knew nothing about.
If Barack Obama cannot be genuine and interested in Republican ideas when the cameras are turned off, there is absolutely no way he can be genuine and sincere with the cameras turned on.
The GOP is often referred to as the stupid party. Let’s pray they aren’t stupid enough to sit down with a President who has for six months dismissed them as having no ideas. Barack Obama says he wants a bipartisan approach to health care now. Well, there is bipartisan support for scrapping the current proposals and starting over.
Unless Barack Obama says they should scrap the present plans and start over, the GOP should not entertain his invitation to use a gaggle of Republicans to rehabilitate our socialist President.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Kavon,
I must disagree with you and Mr. Erickson. If we turn the invitation down, we are the Party of No. If we accept, he can say he looked at our ideas and didn’t like them. However, by accepting the invitation, we can put some of our best minds against the president. We can make his ideas look as bad as they really are, and we can put our ideas on television. I think the cost-benefit analysis is in our favor here. However, we have to be aware of the trap.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
“If Barack Obama cannot be genuine and interested in Republican ideas when the cameras are turned off, there is absolutely no way he can be genuine and sincere with the cameras turned on.”
Actually, I think that’s backwards. You have a group of congressmen refusing to allow up or down votes on legislation based purely on non-supported arguments, strawmen and political motives. Having them explain themselves to the national audience, in the presence of someone with the facts, should be entertaining. But I doubt they’ll go face him again after the last exposing fiasco -so bad, Faux cut it off 20 minutes early.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
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February 8th, 2010 at 4:18 pm
Dustin,
Read carefully what EE wrote:
If Obama and Congressional Dems were sincere, they would start over at the beginning and begin to craft legislation with significant GOP input.
They aren’t. All they want is TV time showing the the President “reached out” to the Republicans. As soon as it is over, they will continue along on the same path they have for the past year, give we conservatives NOTHING, and then promptly declare something like, “We tried. But the GOP continues to be the party of ‘no’ on health care reform” which will be played up in the media.
Since no matter what we do, Obama/Axelrod’s response will be to smear us. Let’s deprive him of the TV time. There is a reason why David Axelrod wants this dude…
February 8th, 2010 at 4:28 pm
Kavon,
I agree that is their plan. However, we should let them give us the TV time.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
I propose an hour long prime time debate on health care between Obama and Paul Ryan.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
….Obama could even bring his teleprompter.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:51 pm
6 – Ryan would lose. He is not ready.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Kris,
Are you serious? Unless he doesn’t know nearly as much about health care as he does the budget, I think he’d tear Obama up. The guy’s a walking database of statistics, and he speaks in coherent, complete paragraphs off the cuff.
February 8th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
9 – he’s not at the debate level of Obama (yet).
I’m not sure it would be a good career move.
Remember Gore v. Perot.
February 8th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
[...] 0 Comments Obama says he wants to sit down with Republicans at his guest house in front of TV cameras and discuss the proposals the GOP has had all along that he pretends he knew nothing about, but as Kavon Nikrad points out, all one needs to know about Obama’s invitation can be learned from Return of the Jedi (video). [...]
February 9th, 2010 at 2:19 am
Start from scratch. Period. It’s what the vast majority of the American people demand.