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Pap Attack: Obama - Yes You STILL Can, But Get Busy - The Ring Of Fire
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10:27Now PlayingThere are at least 233 reasons why President Obama should not waste energy trying to be a president of compromise. For five years, every Republican in the House has tried desperately to prevent America from prospering. Remember, not one Republican could force themselves to acknowledge that 10 million Americans are unemployed. Not one of those 233 lockstep congressmen seemed to notice that 8 million homeowners suffered through bank foreclosure. The untold truth is that except for the SEC protecting mega banks, America's banking industry is barely standing. Factory doors are still being chained closed. Commercial businesses of every kind continue folding at a pace that seems irreversible. But yet 233 Republican Congressmen still want to further promote their failures by refusing to support ideas as basic as an economic stimulus package, or the rebuilding of our terminally ill infrastructure, even as bridges, water delivery, energy delivery grids, roads, and schools crumble around us.
I will add to the list of 233 reasons Obama should end his attempts to compromise with Republican leadership that put us here to begin with. Reason number 234 would be that Obama was sent to Washington with a mandate to change failed policy rather than compromise with the architects of those disastrous, ignorant policies.
I'd also add reason 235 to the list of why Obama should abandon his attempts at bipartisan compromise. The Republican Party is in a total freefall. They have no common ground with Gen. Xers, Millennial voters, Latinos, African American voters, women, moderate Democrats, or Independents -- they have no adult leadership. Do the electoral math and it is clear that the Republicans have morphed into something resembling a historical artifact, except in the House that they have gerrymandered into a Teabag Frankenstein. With a party whose leadership today seems to be comprised of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Steve King, Joe the Plumber, Exxon, Rush Limbaugh, and Rev. John Hagee, is it really that important to continue to reach across the aisle to that peculiar crowd of oddballs? Does that really move America ahead?
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