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The Media Embarrassed Itself by Asking if Obama Wants to Destroy the Republican Party
The Press wasted time today asking Press Secretary Jay Carney for a reaction to Speaker John Boehner’s absurd attempt to blame the President for the Republican Party’s failures.
“Q John Boehner — Speaker Boehner was quoted saying that “the President’s goal is to annihilate the Republican Party.” What’s the President’s reaction to that?
MR. CARNEY: Well, I haven’t spoken to the President about that, but I know it’s not his goal. His goal is to work together with Congress, with members of both parties to achieve progress on behalf of the American people. You heard him say in the inaugural address that even though we have profound differences and differences that we will not resolve necessarily in the next year or two or three or four, it is imperative that we come together and act on behalf of the American people. And there are things that we can and must do together.
The President believes that a strong two-party system is the foundation of our democracy and looks forward to working with Republicans as well as Democrats to get things done.
Q He wouldn’t object to the annihilation of the Republican Party, would he? (Laughter.)
MR. CARNEY: I think he would object to — he believes that the two-party system is part of the foundation of our democracy, and that it is a healthy aspect of our democracy even if it’s contentious.
Ours is not the only politics in the world that is contentious and appropriately so. What he believes, however, is that we need to have spirited debates but not debates that paralyze us. We need to compromise, not be absolutists, but agree that the call — that the need to act on behalf of the American people should compel us to make reasonable compromise while we stick to our principles. And that’s the approach he’s taken since he entered the White House, and it’s the approach he intends to take in the second term.”
Or, as we say around here, the President may not wish for the annihilation of the Republican Party, but that hasn’t stopped it from happening, now has it?
Also, see wasting millions of dollars having show votes on repealing Obamacare while doing nothing about jobs and obstructing the economy to such a point that House Republicans got our credit downgraded for the first time in history. After that, see legitimate rape. If you’re still confused as to just who is behind this nefarious attack on the Republican Party, see their tax plans and war on the middle class.
Wake me up when the press asks John Boehner why he had to keep playing pep boy with the GOP donors who are getting frustrated with the Republican Party’s failures, because that is what drove Boehner to whine about Superman Obama in the first place. Or, if that won’t suffice, how about asking Speaker Boehner about the House’s refusal to fund Libya?
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33 Responses to The Media Embarrassed Itself by Asking if Obama Wants to Destroy the Republican Party
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carol stanton
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 4:15 pm
Boehner needs a new job, maybe wine tester or something like that
mjh
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:07 pm
Tanning booth tester
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Frank
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 10:24 pm
Some other career suggestions for “Orange Julius” Boehner:
Crash test dummy
Rodeo clown
Organ donor
Pharmaceutical test subject
Lab rat
First man to land on the sun
Human cannonball
Paperweight
Doorstop
Orange prison jumpsuit model
Lightning rod
Medical school practice cadaver
Speed bump
Sharin Khosa
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Frank, please put organ donor no:1, but excluding the brain.LOL!thxs.
gsb
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 11:24 am
Carol: Don’t think wine is strong enough!
buckeyewill
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 4:52 pm
QUESTION: Was he drunk when he said that?????
dawgsbtr
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 5:10 pm
The 8 percent approval rating tea party is taking care of that.
diane
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 5:49 pm
Is the republican party admitting that they are letting the Muslim Kenyan win? Then, they should disband themselves and should not be allowed to run in elections.
If they cannot not protect themselves, how can they protect the US????
Really? The republican party, the party of moral responsibility and party of ‘makers not takers’, the party of each man for himself CANNOT even take responsibility for the screw up that they themselves have wrought.
They are pathetic, whiny cry babies. Who do need a diaper change, because they are full of s–t.
Mari
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 10:02 pm
So true, & even more tragic is the fact that the republican party can’t see that they are the very things they profess to hate:
1. They are the Takers. They want to take social programs that’s made this country so powerful & liveable & destroy them; they want to take away programs from our vets, yet send them to wars that end up taking their lives. They want to take away independence & equality from women. They want to take away affordable healthcare from people whose lives would sink without it. They want to take away affordable, quality education, yet expect Americans to find gainful employment, because for godsakes, they’re taking away Unemployment Insurance, foodstamps & aid to families. They’re taking away the Unions that protect workers from being expoited.
2. They are Hypocrites. On the one side of their collective mouths they croon about how they love America & how they are for the people, yet on the other side they ignore the Voice of the People repeatedly, continuously, even with 10,000 voices outside the door screaming for the Governor of Michigan to not make their state a right to work state. They want to rid the country of Social Security & Medicare even though the Voice of the people have made it very well known they emphatically do not want their Social Security or Medicare touched.
3. They are Liars. They must think the American people are stupid & lazy. Too stupid to care & too lazy to fact check. So they spread fear mongering conspiracy theories, thinking the people are believing & spreading those lies. And sadly, many are.
4. They are criminals. Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Frank Luntz & crew deliberately plotting to sabotage the economy; Mitch McConnell inciting a civil war; Newt Gingrich stealing from charities to fund his politics as one of 84 unethical crimes; Bush43 & his lies that brought this country to war that killed thousands of our people. They got away with their crimes.
Sugapea
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 1:42 pm
Wow, Excellent post, Mari!
The GOP really are **THE TAKERS**.
Wish someone would write on that issue.
The Pubs are the ones who first said ‘They Would Destroy Obama’….Now they say Obama is trying to Destroy Them!
503me
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 3:58 pm
Just wanted to take the time to tell you that i enjoyed your comment.
Sharin Khosa
Jan. 28th, 2013 at 9:23 am
Muslim Kenyan = Superman Obama = “An Efficient, Multiskilled, Black Ninja Gangster President”
j
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 5:54 pm
Well after all, the night of Obama’s first inauguration when they got together and plotted his destruction probably makes them think he is going to payback in kind, the repubs always accuse dems of doing what they themselves are doing.
David Braun
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 5:55 pm
Obama is trying to destroy the GOP? Methinks the GOP are doing a bang-up job of that all by themselves!
Sandra
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:35 am
Boehner’s remark certainly didn’t show the R’thugs in a positive light and to publicly make such a stupid, juvenile remark shows just how desparate and weak they are. They are responsible for their party’s poor showing and the mistrust the American people have for them, yet choose to blame PO for their slow demise.
Debra Way
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 6:52 pm
The Repulicans are only destoying them selfs with there stupid ideas and there not so way off working againedt the people they live and do as the tea party says they arent even for the people
Andrew
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:19 pm
I agree that the question was a waste of time, it just further shows how awful mainstream media can be when desperate for a story. But it was President Obama and Senate Democrats who got our credit rating downgraded, not Republicans. Please do not revise history. They had just been elected to cut government spending in 2010 and Democrats still are not going to tolerate any cuts to entitlement programs. I wish the media would ask him why his “balanced approach” the President campaigned on doesn’t seem to involve cutting any spending. He’s raised taxes on rich and middle class, now where is the other half?
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:23 pm
What is entitlement spending?
Sugapea
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 1:49 pm
Yes…*Exactly* what ‘ENTITLEMENT’ spending do you Pubs want taken away?
majii
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 11:27 pm
Sorry, Andrew, but that’s not what Standard and Poors said: “It is clear from Standard & Poor’s statement downgrading the federal government’s credit rating that it places the blame squarely on Republican actions and policies. Two of S&P’s biggest concerns about whether the United States will pay off its debt are whether Republicans will be so insane as to refuse to lift the debt ceiling, a possibility Republicans intentionally stoked fears of, and whether the United States will raise much-needed tax revenue. Specifically, S&P changed its baseline assumption that the Bush tax cuts would expire on schedule in 2012 because Republicans are so insistent that they must be renewed. “We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues,” wrote S&P. That adds $4 trillion over ten years to the projected deficits.”
www.businessinsider.com/s...
www.nationaljournal.com/e...
I know it’s hard for some on the right to admit, and face, the truth, and that’s how, imo, the nation got into the mess it is in–republicans refused to vote President Bush out of office simply because he had an (R) beside his name.
In respect to your claim that there have been NO cuts to the federal budget, what do you think the Budget Control Act of 2011 did? You know, the one where Boehner claimed that the republicans got 98% of what they wanted?
“Deficit reduction:”Spending was reduced more than the increase in the debt limit. No tax increases or other forms of increases in revenue above current law were included in the bill. The bill directly specified $917 billion of cuts over 10 years in exchange for the initial debt limit increase of $900 billion.”
en.wikipedia…
Sandra
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 10:39 am
‘It was PO and the Dems who got the credit rating downgraded.’ Wrong, that gamesmanship goes to the Republicans who were playing partisan politics by refusing the increase the credit ceiling to pay for their two wars, medicare PartD and other debts they racked up while in power. That lie has already been debunked and the blame rests squarely on the Republicans.
Dar Winn
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:21 pm
when you have gerrymandered districts that snake around less than lilly white areas, you will have a false representation of the real electorate. and the GOP has made it so until the next census, even trying to fix it will be impossible. our only hope is to find the congressional districts up for play in 2014, that might have a chance of turning purple… i think the prez is going to keep his election apparatus on defcon 4, and i hope to see some of these baggers go, and give this prez in his last two years real change…. and how bout them chickens#$ts, in the senate, fail again on sillybusters.
LookingForward
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:24 pm
Well, you have to wonder why Boehner would say something so obscured? The President is trying to destroy US as a party. Clearly, all sane people can see the party is self destructing….so one would have to conclude its a PR move to make their paranoid teabaggers even more paranoid! The question is Why? Is he building early motivation to get out the vote in 2014?
Linda1961
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 7:54 pm
I have to give credit where credit is due – Sarah Palin claims that the MSM is lame, and these sort of questions prove it true. Boehner can whine all he wants, but the media doesn’t have to ask to president or his press secretary if it’s true. It’s a ridiculous accusation, especially since the gop is doing just fine destroying themselves.
labman57
Jan. 24th, 2013 at 9:33 pm
Sorry, Johnny-boy.
You and your fellow members of the GOP leadership created your own self-destruct mechanism when you embraced the extreme dogmatism of the naive, ignorant Tea Party movement, the self-righteous intolerance of Christian conservative pundits, and the avaricious, self-serving, empathy-devoid economic policies of the ultra-wealthy.
Mary
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 11:03 am
Once again the useless overpaid media As the President questions they would never ask a repug..
DeezComment
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 11:32 am
In a two-party democracy, the destruction of one party is, in effect, the destruction of democracy. It’s not the president, the minority in the house, nor the majority in the Senate that seek to annihilate the GOP. Rather those who wish to cripple democracy have decided to use “GOP irrelevancy” as a tactic by which to undermine the democratic process. How are they accomplishing this? By bankrolling the Tea Party and other right-winged extremists. Look to the Koch Brothers, Grover Norquist and others who desire shrinking government until it is completely ineffective. Wasn’t it Grover, who–discussing government’s size–quipped, let’s make it “…small enough to drag into the bathroom and drown in the tub”?The enemies of democracy and the democratic process are the stealth enemies of the GOP. The Tea Party is the GOPs Trojan Horse. The Norquist’s, the Koch’s and their ilk, fashioned, funded and delivered this poisonous scourge. Again, their target is not the GOP; that’s just a means to an end. Their real target is democracy and the democratic process.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 11:51 am
The republican party is no more.They are a neo-fascist party.Look for a new name.The Patriotic American Party.Save the jokes.
Sharin Khosa
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 6:13 pm
2014 for Obama.
Eduardo Cruz
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 7:48 pm
Sarah, and anyone here. I am asking for your help. I have been battling and discrediting the lies of conservatives on twitter, but I guess they have found a way to get my account suspended.
This is not just a personal event, I just read that they have created a platform to get progressives, liberals, democrats, suspended from twitter. And hundreds, maybe thousands have been suspended since yesterday.
I hope Sarah can bring some attention to this problem in twitter by writing an article about it and everyone sharing it in as many places as possible.
We cannot allow the right wingers that cannot debate issues to silence the voices of reason.
My id on twitter is/was @ManUpManual.
Thank you all for reading this.
Eduardo Cruz
U.S. Army (Retired)
Shiva(Moderator)
Jan. 25th, 2013 at 8:39 pm
Its happening to a lot of people. This has been noted on twitter and the Daily Kos I think has wrote about it. They cant win without cheating
Anne
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 11:29 am
Whoever asked this question as to whether the president is trying to destroy the GOP obviously intended to stir up a hornets’ nest. The fact of the matter is that anyone with even one brain cell can see that the GOP is hell-bent on pursuing policies that will eventually lead to its own destruction. It’s as if the results of the presidential election have only strengthened their determination to pursue policies that were soundly rejected in November.
djchefron(Moderator)
Jan. 27th, 2013 at 11:38 am
I dont call any reporters asking any of the republicans who attended frank luntz whine fest about their plans to obstruct the Presidents policies to the detriment of the American people.But I guess thats just good ol fashion politics.