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CBS Loses Loving Feeling, Exposes True Meaning Of Obama’s Bipartisanship Call
Written By : William Teach

As each month of Jimmy Carter’s second term passes (it might actually be an insult to Jimmy Carter to make that comparison), the apparatus of state is losing its hold on the state run media. Much like we saw in the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the media is becoming more independent of the talking points emanating from the Kremlin and Politboro, er, White House and DNC, and willing to expose what is actually going on. Part of this is the bottom line: trust equals money. Second, many in the media are sick to death from being treated as members of Obama’s press team. No matter what the political leanings of those in the media, they do not appreciate being jerked around.

In the latest show of independence, we can read CBS News’ take on what bipartisan actually means. Hopey changey feeling is gone

Unannounced, President Obama took to the lectern in the White House briefing room today to give a personal readout of his meeting earlier with congressional leaders of both parties.

“Despite the political posturing that often paralyzes this town, there are many issues upon which we can and should agree, he said.

It was more a plaintive plea than a political observation. His top legislative priorities are going nowhere and he’s searching for a way to get them out of lockup.

Perhaps he should have consulted with Stumbling Robert Gibbs, who made his idiotic joke about Sarah Palin scribbling notes on her hand. Palin may be a high visibility private citizen, but, the point stands that she is a private citizen (one who also is laughing all the way to the bank, and idiotic demonstrations like Gibbs’ simply puts more money in her account.)

After providing some bipartisanship call quotes from Reagan, Bush 41, and Clinton, CBS decided

What these presidential appeals for bipartisanship always mean is: do it my way.

Mr. Obama said he “won’t hesitate to embrace a good idea from my friends in the minority party.” But he wants his way. He wants his energy policy enacted along with his jobs bill, his financial regulatory reform and his health care plan.

And if the opposition continues to block his objectives, he said he “won’t hesitate to condemn what I consider to be obstinacy that’s rooted not in substantive disagreement but in political expedience.”

When a sitting president calls for bipartisanship by the opposition – he really means surrender. And if they block his proposals, its “obstinacy” and not political views they hold as strongly as he holds his.

This is, of course, something we all know and understand. Obama does not to work with Republicans: he wants their names included, but not their ideas. Even George Bush reached across the aisle more in his first few years, listened, and even incorporated their ideas into law.

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  • StanInTexas

    Let us now revisit the meaning of the word BIPARTISANSHIP.

    The Republican definition of bipartisanship does not change, regardless of who is in office. It always means “working together across party lines to solve an issue.”

    The Democrat definition depends entirely upon which party is on power.
    * If Republicans are in power, bipartisanship means ‘Give us an equal share of power that we were unable to earn at the ballot box, because we tell you that you should.’
    * If Democrats are in power, the definition of bipartisan changes to ‘Shut up and sit down. We won and we’ll do whatever we want to. You should be happy we even let you stay in the room.’
    ADDENDUM: If Democrats are in power and their agenda is roundly rejected by the voters, the definition of bipartisanship will become (for a short period of time) “Come on over to our side of the issue. We’ll give you a few meaningless concessions and put your names on the bill, then blame you for the entire thing when the voting public actually gets to see and experience what this legislation is really all about.”

  • gfchicago

    “ADDENDUM: If Democrats are in power and their agenda is roundly rejected by the voters, the definition of bipartisanship will become (for a short period of time) “Come on over to our side of the issue. We’ll give you a few meaningless concessions and put your names on the bill, then blame you for the entire thing when the voting public actually gets to see and experience what this legislation is really all about.”"
    Posted by StanInTexas
    2010-02-10 10:11:28

    Excellent post Stan… Hope you and your family are doing well.

    We are freezing our little tooshies off here in NC and just grateful we didn’t get smacked with more snow. Although when we did get snow my two dogs absouletly loved it, until my toy dog which is a male figured out the snow was too deep and his privates were dragging in the snow and started hoping around on three legs and gave me a look of pure bewilderment as if to say this isn’t so much fun anymore come get me.

    To address William’s post… It’s about frickin time that the LSM finally does some objective reporting.

  • StanInTexas

    Posted by gfchicago 2010-02-10 10:20:39

    Glad to hear you are doing well, GF. Tell the dogs to stay in the garage until spring thaw! The DFW area is expecting snow tonight and tomorrow. That Global Warming is really hitting us hard!

    Take Care!

  • Jack Schite

    “The Republican definition of bipartisanship does not change, regardless of who is in office. It always means “working together across party lines to solve an issue.””

    Absolute unmitigated bullshit and I call you on it. You can’t re-write history after the Bush administration did everything possible to keep democrats out of the process, you asshole.

    Payback’s a bitch you loser.

  • Mike_M

    Obama couldn’t even pull off unipartisanship with a supermajority his agenda is so lunatic-fringe. Let’s not forget that.

    He also thinks he still owns the press and has a magic approval rating by trying to shame the GOP into accepting 99.9% of his plan in this phony heath care made-for-TV movie.

    The GOP needs to insist the current takeover and tax bill be scrapped, and a new plan devised with a more focused scope. Many of the real health care fixes can take place immediately and will cost the government little. Opening up a national insurance market, health insurance portability, tort reform.

    Simply bolting on a couple compromise items to the flawed bill is no solution, and will still hand over 20% of the economy to the government. If Obama wants a bipartisan solution, he’s got to move right this time. Simply trying to goad Republicans into crossing the aisle is a failed strategy that’s not going to work this time.

  • StanInTexas

    Posted by Jack Schite 2010-02-10 10:39:08

    History and facts are definitelty not your strong suit, Jack.

    Bush worked with Democrats, invited them to the White House, and partnered with them. And every time he did, he had them spit in his face and stab him in the back. The most eggregous was Ted Kennedy.

    Bush tried and it was rejected, so he quit trying. Obama/Pelosi/Reid skipped the middleman and started by shutting out Republicans.

    Sorry you are such an idiot, Jack!

  • Mike_M

    “You can’t re-write history after the Bush administration did everything possible to keep democrats out of the process, you asshole.”

    Another pathetic lie, jack. Every major piece of legislation that came out of the Bush Administration had bipartisan support and usually bipartisan sponsorship with the exception of the tax cuts (since we all know Dems would never willingly cut taxes).

    The Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, Medicare D, look them up. Conservatives were upset with Bush for giving away too much precisely because of this. But in your blind hatred and rage all you can do is project Obama’s rabid partisanships and failures onto Bush.

    You liberals really have lost touch with reality. You and vega are headed for the loony bin at this rate.

  • gfchicago

    Give me a break Jack. With “The Messiah” and his Democrat Congress all it means that Republicans have to shut up and sit down and support his stupid policies.

    The whole problem is that there is a Democratic majority and they still can’t get his agenda passed. So what does that tell you? So you can’t blame this on the Republicans at all.

    The Democrats just want to be able to hang all of their mistakes on the Repblicans.

  • http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

    You can’t re-write history after the Bush administration did everything possible to keep democrats out of the process, you asshole.

    Payback’s a bitch you loser.
    Posted by Jack Schite
    2010-02-10 10:39:08

    Then why can’t you pass your bills?

  • StanInTexas

    Then why can’t you pass your bills?
    Posted by Dick_Nixon 2010-02-10 11:19:44

    History will remember Obama’s first year in office as him having almost unprecedented approval ratings and a filibuster-proof majority in Congress. And yet, he was unable to get his signature legislation passed. And his only recourse is to whine like a little girl that the mean-old Republicans wouldn’t let him have his way.

    Barak Obama… WHINER-in-Chief!

  • http://PatriotPost.US bthewolf

    Absolute unmitigated bullshit and I call you on it. You can’t re-write history after the Bush administration did everything possible to keep democrats out of the process, you asshole.

    Payback’s a bitch you loser.
    Posted by Jack Schite
    2010-02-10 10:39:08

    Dear god in heaven but you are a complete IGNORAMUS and utter MORON, get back to us when you’ve graduated potty training.

  • Mike_M

    “Payback’s a bitch you loser.”

    What payback? All Obama has done so far is waste money, and that hurts everybody equally.

    Really. The health care debate started in July or something and Congress has done absolutely nothing since then…well except replace Obama appointees that have resigned in disgrace and raise the debt ceiling.

  • Crimsonfella

    Sorry but I just don’t buy it that suddenly CBS is becoming more independant.They have always twisted the news to help the Democrats and I just don’t see it changing.Just wait until election season begins they will do everything they can to twist the news in order to help the democrat party.Yeah they may take a few jabs at the Obama administration but will forget all about it when it is time for elections.

  • gfchicago

    “They have always twisted the news to help the Democrats and I just don’t see it changing.Just wait until election season begins they will do everything they can to twist the news in order to help the democrat party.Yeah they may take a few jabs at the Obama administration but will forget all about it when it is time for elections.”
    Posted by Crimsonfella
    2010-02-10 11:33:32

    Your probably correct on this score… I just wish that they would keep it up, but you know that they won’t which is a huge disearvice to the American People. The only time that they are inclined to do serious reporting and also spinning is when the Republicans are in power.

  • Crimsonfella

    Well even when Clinton was president they took some jabs at his adminstration but forgot all about it once the elections came.

  • http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

    Payback’s a bitch you loser.

    Posted by Jack Schite
    2010-02-10 10:39:08

    Is this phrase your new slogan, Jacqui? You’ve used it 4 or 5 times in the past week alone. Maybe it’s time to come up with a new catchphrase. I mean after all, if you’re going to be the village idiot, can’t you at least be an entertaining one?

  • http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

    THREADJACK ALERT!!

    I tried to log in to RWN and noticed the ID “sicsempertyrannis” on the top right corner of the web page, the location of your user information.

    For the new-timers, “sicsempertyrannis” is the ID of a liberal troll who tried to pose as a conservative on RWN a while back.

    This is the second time I’ve experienced this in the past two weeks. I HIGHLY recommend that everybody change their passwords immediately. It looks like the trolls are trying a new technique to get their message across.

  • ohioan

    Absolute unmitigated bullshit and I call you on it. You can’t re-write history after the Bush administration did everything possible to keep democrats out of the process, you asshole.
    Payback’s a bitch you loser.
    Posted by Jack Schite
    2010-02-10 10:39:08

    Jack, you have serious issues.

    To the topic of the thread: I was really quite surprised to see such a piece of writing come from this source. Almost shocked really.

    And really, if you’re the pres., how can you manage to take near-unprecedented approval ratings and get NOTHING out of it? I mean, the health-care atrocity passed on party lines in each of the chambers, but now they can’t get agreement to get it to his desk (plus the Mass. election monkey-wrenched them). The summary for the first year in office is an absolute gold-mine for any political opponent come re-election cycle:

    -squandered approval ratings
    -increased national debt and debt ceiling
    -near-miss terrorist attack (Detroit)
    -failure to pass legislation on health care
    -back room partisan dealings which produced such things as Sen. Nelson’s “everyone pays but Nebraska” deal
    -Gov’t spending bills that DO NOT stimulate the economy -(so-called economic recovery acts, “generational theft act”)
    -international faux pas such as bowing to foreign leaders
    -multiple resignations (including Van Jones) from prominent positions in his administration

    The list just continues on and on…

  • belacuse

    I hadn’t seen the thing about Robert Gibbs’ little ‘joke’ before now. That has to be one of the most classless things I have seen in a while. It is right up there with Obama scratching at his forehead with his middle finger as he mentions his opponents. But since Gibbs thought he would use the platform of the most powerful, and one time dignified, office in the world to indulge his childish impulses, perhaps he should include a different list next time that says, “snide, petty, classless.”

    I guess this is what happens when the adults step out for a few minutes.

  • http://www.getclassichardwood.com charliehall3

    “The Republican definition of bipartisanship does not change, regardless of who is in office. It always means “working together across party lines to solve an issue.””

    Absolute unmitigated bullshit and I call you on it. You can’t re-write history after the Bush administration did everything possible to keep democrats out of the process, you asshole.

    Payback’s a bitch you loser.
    Posted by Jack Schite
    2010-02-10 10:39:08

    John,
    Why do you allow this to stay on the site?

    Charlie Hall

  • RtWingNtCase

    I think Jack’s just pissed that he’s learning the real meaning of the word after eight years of pitiful democrats bitching about everything Bush, and now doesn’t like it when the shoe’s on the other foot.

    You want bipartisanship after the shit the dems pulled since 2000? I believe the phrase “screw you” has meaning in this context.

  • CoolCzech

    Jack,

    Obama is begging us, remember?

  • http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

    Absolute unmitigated bullshit and I call you on it.

    I call your bullshit and raise you a “fuck off and die.”

    Let’s see your hand.

  • http://Kingfisher Kingfisher

    On second thought, never mind. Your hand probably has hair growing on the palm.

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