Reply #15: They work for President Obama [View All]

[WilliamPitt]

and the president has been reaching out to GOP members past and present, making nice wherever he goes, and reaching out all over the place so he can pass a bunch of really heavy bills.

Foggy Bottom is riddled with GOP partisan lifers, some of whom predate Reagan. They're suffused throughout the bureaucracy, and can really jam things up if they wish. Clinton had the same problem when he arrived in '93.

Obama appears to be telling his people to make nice noises in the direction of the old guard. Nice words for those clowns have zero force or effect, make no tangible changes to policy plans or goals, and are meant solely to grease the rails a bit.

EVERYONE in the Obama administration is saying nice things about these idiots. It's called "Lip service," and if paying it makes their work even 0.0001% easier, well, that's the point.