boehner won’t let gop house meet pres obama because he fears baltimore massacre 2.0

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A quick trip down memory lane. Democrats had suffered a crushing blow on no other day than the 1st Anniversary of Pres Obama’s Inauguration into office. Jan 20, 2010. We had lost Sen Ted Kennedy’s seat. The fate of the Healthcare bill hung in a balance. It had passed the House earlier in December 2009. The Senate version passed in a cliffhanger moment with ailing WV Senator Robert Bird being wheeled in, and Sen Sherrod Brown flown in by WH straight from a funeral, to cast the critical filibuster-proof vote just a breath before Christmas Day 2009 rolled in, and start of congressional winter recess.

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But come January 2010, the two bills needed to be reconciled. On this anniversary date, Scott Brown trounced Martha Cokeley in the MA senate special election. Democrats’ threadbare 60 filibuster-proof caucus, gone. Healthcare reform teetered on brink of collapse. Many Very Serious People in the Beltway, pundits and Democrats told the President to give or radically scale back his Healthcare quest. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel read him the “Political-Implications-Riot-Act.” WH was in a deep funk.

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Then came the Republican House’s grand invitation to Pres Obama visit their caucus retreat in Baltimore, MD. They probably wanted to humiliate the president for his recent loss, through fake chivalry.

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WH RSVPed with one tiny request, whose acceptance a House GOP member later said was the biggest mistake they ever made. Pres Obama had asked to bring camera crew along.

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So, 45 months ago President Obama predicted exactly to a T the current GOP Convulsions. We’ve seen this phenomenon play out over and over, but none of those prior occasions have been as dire as the shutdown we’re in the midst of and the looming economic catastrophe should we enter default.

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BOG

[Cha]

1. Excellent analysis from zizi at the obama diary, she..

thank you!

The teaKochs are so scared of President Obama.. they can't risk a repeat of the first massacre when he went into their retreat with a camera crew!

Just Brilliant!

[sheshe2]

2. Ah, the President should never be underestimated.

Not ever. He is going to get us out of this, I know it. You can take that to the bank.

The kochers and the teapotties thought they were playing this brilliantly.

Brilliance is when the full moon lights up the night sky in all her glory. The rest are the waning moon, ready to be born into something bright and whole again. That's the difference between the Democrats and this President...the Pukes are the ones waning~

BOG Cha

[Cha]

4. And, now as you posted in GD.. the

Kochs are distancing themselves from the teakochs as they're holding the metaphorical gun to our collective head.

[IrishAyes]

3. That'll lurn 'em, durn 'em

When speaking to or about GOP, I don't like to talk over their little pin heads. But maybe they can understand that.

As to the OP, that's my dessert tonight. This just gets better and better. Let's hear it for Boston Massacre 2.0, everybody! The sooner battle's fully joined, the sooner we'll be on the safe shores again.

And of course President Obama heard them coming, clumsy oafs that they are.

[sheshe2]

5. Dessert without the calories, Irish!

Battle lines are drawn, I believe, I really do that we will win this.

Then we take them all down in 2014! GOTV.

[IrishAyes]

6. After all,

We are on the right side of history.

(btw, while in the hospital waiting room today - had to drive a friend there, glad she has a car! - a second visitor, the man who used to be our postmaster and later VP of the bank I use, walked in and saw me; looked around to see if the coast was clear; then said "That's a great letter you wrote to the paper last week. About time somebody told it like it is."

He's a real 'underground' democrat like most of them around here, for very practical reasons! But I was pleased nonetheless. When his dreaded sil tortured me in church so long and then played saint for the crowd at another church's soupNsandwdich fundraiser, I bawled her out good for being such a lying hypocrite in those very words. After way over 2 years she finally broke me. In front of God and everybody, just as she always unjustly attacked me. Next Monday I saw this man in the parking lot of the grocery store and he gave me a huge smile and thumbs up. No way he could've told her off like that. I really think she's off her rocker. Mean as a snake, and not just to me.

[sheshe2]

7. You are transforming them Irish~

Bringing out the best in them, one step at a time.

Irish!

[treestar]

8. I remember that

You'd think by now the Republicans would understand they are going to get owned.