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Keeps interrupting him:
"Why are you and Romney losing?"
"Let's talk specifics"
"You haven't given me the math"
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KansDem
(28,498 posts)...on January 20, 2008, when he went behind closed doors to plot GOP strategy for taking down the Obama presidency at all costs:
WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.
The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured -- serves as the prologue of Robert Draper's much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives."
According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) -- who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama's legislative platform.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html
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(29,503 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)I'll hear that from Republican voters. When they hear "America is broke" they think it's Americans themselves and say it's because the government is taking too much. It's just the opposite. "America is broke" means the government is broke and need MORE money, not less. Then they'll rail about government waste but if you mention the military they get mad. I always mention the Pentagon Papers in the 70s with it's $20,000 for a hammer. $30,000 for a toilet seat. We never actually did anything about it. We SAW it and REACTED to it but we never stopped it. All that happened was speechafyin'