The GOP controlled House is the only thing standing between America and a veritable dictatorship
By: DrJohn



Barack Obama has absolutely no intention of working with the GOP for the next two years despite any words to the contrary. Obama recently met with Congressional leaders for a grand total of one hour. Obama has spent the rest of his time berating Republicans all over the country.

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Obama has been warned by centrist Republicans that he is poisoning the well.

President Obama’s public shaming of congressional Republicans to act on a range of issues may be winning at the polls — but it risks alienating the people needed to reach bipartisan compromise.

While Obama has made a strategic calculation that he needs to marshal public support to push through his agenda, centrist Republicans warn the president and his allies could go too far with partisan events and campaign-style ads targeting GOP lawmakers.

One recent point of contention: Organizing for Action, Obama’s former campaign arm, made its first post-election foray into campaigning this week with ads pressuring swing-state Republicans to support new gun control measures.

Among the targets was Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who is working to build support for a bill focused on cracking down on gun trafficking.

“The way to tackle this difficult issue is to continue to have a constructive dialogue. Obviously ads run against me are not what I would call constructive dialogue,” Collins told The Hill. “I personally have very little interest in the White House’s campaign activities on this issue. It’s just not a factor in my consideration.”

Obama needs Republican votes in the House to pass any legislation:

But to get anything accomplished Obama will need to convince the few remaining centrist Republicans to vote with him — and a public lobbying campaign could infuriate the many members not facing tough elections.

But that assumes working with the GOP to pass legislation now is the goal.

It’s not.

Barack Obama will spend the next two years demonizing Republicans at every turn and the monster he created, Organizing for America, will be the muscle. The real goal is 2014.

Obama has committed to raising money for fellow Democrats, agreed to help recruit viable candidates, and launched a political nonprofit group dedicated to furthering his agenda and that of his congressional allies. The goal is to flip the Republican-held House back to Democratic control, allowing Obama to push forward with a progressive agenda on gun control, immigration, climate change and the economy during his final two years in office, according to congressional Democrats, strategists and others familiar with Obama’s thinking.

“The president understands that to get anything done, he needs a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives,” said Rep. Steve Israel (N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “To have a legacy in 2016, he will need a House majority in 2014, and that work has to start now.”

Obama’s actions are not one of a person seeking cooperation:

So far, though, most of the proposals have little traction in the Republican-controlled House. Obama’s decision to squarely blame the opposition for across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester has also generated little goodwill across the aisle.

And it is clear Obama intends to continue to pound Republicans

Some Obama allies say the president views OFA as a way of marshaling — and extending beyond the traditional two years of a second term — his political power. The organization went largely dormant after his 2008 victory, mobilized only during late-inning pushes to secure health-care and Wall Street legislation.

Seeking major donations

This time is different. The group is already seeking $500,000 donations from major Obama campaign bundlers.

Within hours of Obama’s appearance Friday to talk about the spending cuts, OFA’s Jon Carson, a veteran of the first-term White House, sent out a mass e-mail declaring that “because congressional Republicans refused to act, devastating budget cuts known as the sequester are going into effect.”

John Boehner said that Obama intends to “annihilate” the GOP and he’s not alone.

Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell:

The president is obviously going all-out — but not to avoid the $85 billion in spending cuts, known as the sequester, set to kick in on Friday. Obama doesn’t want to make a deal with Republicans. His fear-mongering is part of a concerted plan that extends far beyond the sequester crisis: to obliterate the Republican Party as a viable force in American political life.

His self-righteous rhetoric obscures a bitter truth: Obama is not trying to unite the country. He’s waging a class-based battle for political gain. His goal is to win back the House for Democrats in 2014, giving him a united Congress for his last two years in office and allowing him to pursue the most expansive government in American history.

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We face a doomsday scenario- a President disrespectful of the Constitution, an obsequious press, a rubber stamp Congress not inclined to do anything but enable Obama and the Court system ignored.

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It's about damn time for all of us who care about freedom and liberty to start focusing on the real enemy. It is0bama and the evil communists. His divide and conquer the GOP and conservatives strategy seems to be working too.

Good post.

It is. It absolutely is. That's why all these idiots who pine for the "perfect conservative" are so stupid. "No RINOS" etc.

Take what we can get.

A lot of the GOP and conservatives have fallen for the leftist ploy to divide and conquer.

"Perfect" conservatives have always been dividers, since they're too "perfect" to want cooperation, and blame Republicans first for everything that goes wrong.

The GOP has fallen for the "conservatives are the enemy" ploy too, so we have a deeply divided Republican/conservative base.

All this means the left wins, and the values of the majority of Americans, the law of the land, and our future as a free nation are destroyed.

And two groups are happy....

The Democrats, and the "perfect" conservatives, neither of which want to get along with anybody. The Democrats get their way with the country, and the "perfect" conservatives get to whine and say "I told you so," when they're part of the problem and none of the solution.

And it's good-bye, America.

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His divide and conquer the GOP and conservatives strategy seems to be working too.

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"Perfect" conservatives....

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Also, it's easy to be a "perfect" conservative when writing books and editorials, fulminating on message boards or hosting a radio talk show.

Ah, but when perfect conservatives to go out into the real world and actually try to get elected to office, retaining all that ideological purity isn't quite as easy as it is sitting at a keybord or behind a microphone.

Limbaugh comes to mind.

{Although, recently even he's gotten off of his "conservatism wins every time" high horse.}

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His divide and conquer the GOP and conservatives strategy seems to be working too.

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Only because the GOP is letting it work.

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His divide and conquer the GOP and conservatives strategy seems to be working too.

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Only because the GOP is letting it work.

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It is fairly easy to be a perfect conservative at the federal level; Follow the Constitution as written. But that does not pay as well as selling out to the Marxists for personal gain.....

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His divide and conquer the GOP and conservatives strategy seems to be working too.

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Only because the GOP is letting it work.

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Not just the GOP, but there a lot of "conservative purists" who are doing damage too.

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Is it really the GOP or is it the conservative media pundits/talking heads who are keeping the crap stirred up

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It is. It absolutely is. That's why all these idiots who pine for the "perfect conservative" are so stupid. "No RINOS" etc.

Take what we can get.

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Is it really the GOP or is it the conservative media pundits/talking heads who are keeping the crap stirred up

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I am only going off of what the GOP is saying and doing. Right now Boner is the head of the party. He is the highest ranking elected GOP leader with the ability to control spending. At every turn he rolls over or makes attempts to "bridge the political divide" arguing that now isn't the time to pick a fight, but later down the road at the next crisis we will be in the drivers seat. When the next crisis hits, he is constantly back to arguing that "now isn't the time for partisanship". WTF. This is like Romney running around saying how he was going to kill Obamacare 100% on the stump and then hitting the Sunday shows saying that there are parts of the bill he likes and he will just "tinker" with it a bit. Total unprincipled garbage.

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