Open Palms: Bickering and Bipartisanship

The ONLY reason Obama has extended anything to the GOP is he lost his “Jam it down our throats” majority in Congress and now wants people to think he is willing to compromise.

The Republicans are too much about politics. Republican political goals are more important than working with the President to get the country back on track. They seem to have a very short memory since their party is directly responsible for the mess the President inherited. The People want this country to be strong in every way without the political parties backstabbing each other or their glib comments. What needs to be accomplished is too important to our country and the world.

So Michelle Obama says her husband came in to office, it was on the brink of depression ???What the heck do you call it now?I am out of work for months barely can survive went for state and government help for health care and public aid and was denied .I have two children and am a Diabetic and Michelle Obama is running around in designer cloths.I am sorry but Sarah Palin is more in tun to the pulse of America .Where is the change?Our Government should all get kicked out on the seat of their pants into all that snow.Maybe that is why the east coast is getting punished.
Thanks but I don’t think this country can run on these two parties anymore we need some competition like The European Governments have .Maybe that is why they are out of the recession.

As an Independent Thinking voter, who has voted Republican often- for many years (often because the Democrats didn’t have a reasonable/acceptable candidate or issue to support), but not lately. Because the behavior of the Republican Party and their affiliated politicians is just currently inexcusable. These current Below the Line tactics (including delaying any hope for real democratic progress on Health Insurance and Quality Health Care improvements for all Americans) along with their destructive rather than constructive attitudes, are what will continue to doom real and meaningful bi-partisanship (which is what’s needed).
I think the Republicans are proving that we need a Quality Third Party for Independent Thinking people that are not slaves to a Party platform that ignores real life issues and the need for positive change to improve life and produce healthy outcomes.

Bipartisanship? Why bother? Find out which business has financed which senator, Democrat or Republican, and simply determine from the campaign contributions to them how they are going to vote. This is the most bought and sold government on the planet. We are as bad as any banana republic and the idea that American boys and girls are dying to spread this greed driven concept abroad is ridiculous. Rather than concern ourselves with Bipartisanship we need to focus on a conflict of interests where we disqualify those legislators who take money from businesses from voting on issues that effect those businesses. We criminalize it for the local governments but for national politics we glorify it. Unfortunately the primary concern is not the country its getting re elected so don’t count on them voting for a reform which cuts their bottom line and the Supreme Court just showed it has no interest in helping cure the problem. Imagine a congress where the conflicted senators actually were required to abstain and we had votes which looked to the interest of us instead of them. Never going to happen. Its a broken system which will take a revolution to fix. No Obama can ever change it. Very sad. The founding fathers were landed gentry who lent their intelligence to politics rather than became a body of career politicians bent on getting rich and re elected and being indentured to the businesses that make that happen.

why are you not doing a special every night on the legislators who are killing this country? Start with Shelby from AL and his $35Billion contract blackmailed for France’s Airbus rather than approve 79 essential government appointments or the GOP who scream that a government run healthcare system is socialistic and will destroy America and then each and every one voted against NY Congressman Weiner’s motion to repeal the current government funded healthcare program called Medicare. Obama has great intentions but faces a
GOP who is going to kill the country to stop him from looking like a success. It the same thing their father’s did to thwart segregation from appearing to ever be successful in the South. Hopefully Obama’s current efforts to expose the GOP and the Blue dog Democrats for their obstructionism will move them to action but I doubt it. They are taking action by their overt inaction. By the way the GOP does have a funding plan for their health care plan. If you have ever been to a diner in the South just go to the cash register and you will see the large pickle jars with the sad photo of little Jimmy who needs your pennies for his life saving operation. That’s it. That’s their charity based plan to the citizens of America. Is that the best the greatest country on earth can do for its citizens? Pretty sad.

I am so very disappointed in the Republicans. I am really sick of their disregard for the people. Their only interests are the Party, Politics, and November elections. Is their nothing, nothing at all they agree on except the WAR.

That’s a cheap shot Robert Gibbs. You’ve made more mistakes and said more ‘I don’t knows’ during your press interviews…duhh! No wonder your boss did not deliver the Hope and Change he promised. You just RECENTLY wrote it (hope and change) on your palm! You forgot to remind him about those for one year…omg!…you should resign!

I believe it is clear that America will not stand for this flawed health care bill being rammed down our throats.
Start over with Republican input.
Stop throwing OUR money away!

My comment is this……What has our political system become? What a slap in the face to citizens that our leaders act like cry babies when someone says something they don’t like. GET OVER IT BOTH PARTIES, do our business and get this country moving again.
Thanks