Is There Even Bipartisan Agreement on What ‘Bipartisan’ Means?

“I won. I’ll trump you on that”.
Hey, Tapper, you clueless twit..remember that?

America is NOT a dictatorship. Bush learned it the hard way, and Obama will too. Doesn’t stop them from trying though, does it?

Is this the pivot to jobs using an “unpassable” (to a one party majority) healthcare bill to promote bipartisanship. Republicans haven’t held up that awful bill democrats have.
Why not work on some bipartisan jobs efforts.

Bipartisan means only one thing: At least enough Republicans vote with the Democrats to offset those Democrats who are up for reelection and who don’t dare vote liberal before November.
Let’s hope the Republicans become not only the party of NO!, but of HELL NO! (RHL).
Let’s return to a government of enumerated powers.

Republicans haven’t held up that awful bill democrats have.
GO | Feb 9, 2010 10:47:34 PM
Amazing. EVERY Republican Senator votes to filibuster it (that is deny it a majority vote), Republicans spend months stringing along Baucus in the Senate pretending to be willing to compromise (even bragging about their bad faith negotiations), and yet it is all the fault of Democrats. And I assume you are counting Joe “Vote for McCain” Lieberman, who defeated a Democrat in his last election, as a Democrat.

BUNCH OF BULL, WITH OBAMA TRYING TO SAVE FACE. Rebubs have good bills that will really improve our heath care, NOW, but Obama wants no part of that. HE NEEDS TO FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY AND THE WAR ON TERRORISM!!

All this talk of bipartisanship..just a stalling tactic..
While the president is dressed up in non-confrontational checkered shirts, joking and smiling for the cameras, I keep looking for the real power brokers…Where is Pelosi these days? Where is Harry?

Im sick of this “mess Bush created” line. Lets assume he did, and you were hired at your job to fix your predecessors “mess”. How long do you think youd get before it became your problem and you became responsible for the so called clean up. Not long!

What’s the deal with the Michelle comment? First he says he gives better gifts than he gets (christmastime comment) – now he says he usually ‘gives in’ to her.
Me thinks this relationship is not that great.

Couldn’t be a bigger case of Orwellian DoubleSpeak.
Obama is projecting big time, accusing the Repubs of the very behavior that he’s blatantly guilty of.
The disingenuousness of Obama and his administration has gotten to be utterly disgusting.
He needs to try taking his own advice, and stop whining, harping and scolding everyone else.
He needs to GROW UP and get a little class and dignity of office.

Barney, they (LSM) only have selective memories to their good feelings about their heroes. Jake is the John McCain of reporting, which puts him just right of Helen Thomas. Bush lied people died, will forever be etched into their memory, as their only victory call for so-called journalism. They’re still lieing to themselves, only this November, game ovah!

Obama’s version of bipartisanship is “I won.”
Obama said that Republicans have no ideas but he has read them. Go figure.
This suggestion of working together is as much garbage as is everything else Obama says.

“What’s the deal with the Michelle comment?”
Good question.

How brave of Obama to finally deign to meet–unannounced–with the remnants of the WH Press Corpse (heh) during a blizzard. The guy’s a real hero…

“Yet, he says it’s the budget mess is the republicans fault. NO ONE, no journalist, at a presser can confront President Obama on this fact?”
Absolutely right. I’ve been asking that for more than year.
I’m also waiting for the US media to cover the global warming fraud.

Barack (my records are sealed till 2059) H. Obama, the “head” of an administration that has raped the public treasury at the tune of more than $6 trillion in just one year, and live the good life making fun of the rest of us and our “stupid” leader Sarah Palin, wants now “bipartisanship.”
Give it to him I say, right between his legs.

Bipartisanship = I will give in on a few things that we all agree is needed in the best interest of this country if you then surrender on all the big government stuff that will transform this nation beyond recognition.

Obama lies, democracy dies! What a fraud – I watched the majority of this “presser”….it was a photo op and he was basically saying “if you don’t do it my way, I will find a way, i.e. Executive Order/Recess Appointments”.
The man is possibly the most corrupt, naive, delusional incompetent EVER to hold the office of POTUS….he makes Jimmy Carter look great!

I put more faith in the professor on Gilligan’s Island than the professor(haha) in the WH.

Wow, this is like the pot calling the kettle…stainless steel. Obama’s idea of bipartisan is for Republicans to agree with what HE wants.
I think it’s time to bring up an old phrase from the 2008 campaign. What Obama is trying to do is essentially “put lipstick on a pig” (with the “pig” being the current health care bill). No matter what Republican ideas Obama might accept (and I don’t think he’ll accept them…he’ll stand there on TV and tell them why they won’t work or how they’ll only benefit greedy insurance companies), we’ll still have the same old bill.
Republicans HAVE to go, however.

I say no meeting.Let the Dems own it.Keep the pressure on.Anyone else notice even w/teleprompter BHO has been stuttering and stumbling ?

>>Will no journalist point out that the budget Bush signed in 2008 was OPPOSED by Republicans and APPROVED by 55 democrats? INCLUDING OBAMA! He approved of Bush’s spending for his last budget while republicans abandoned Bush. Yet, he says it’s the budget mess is the republicans fault. NO ONE, no journalist, at a presser can confront President Obama on this fact?
Posted by: JDW | Feb 10, 2010 8:57:33 AM<<
Excellent post!

“Bipartisanship cannot mean simply that Democrats give up everything that they believe in, find the handful of things that Republicans have been advocating for, and we do those things, and then we have bipartisanship,”
Of course not. Here’s what bipartisan means to Obama:
“Bipartisanship means simply that Republicans give up everything that they believe in and get behind the things that Democrats have been advocating for. After all, I won.”
See? Simple.

Well.. as usual, he didn’t give a straight answer or a definition. Again as usual, he just stated to what it doesn’t mean to him. I bet his actual definition of bipartisanship include the words ‘hope’ and ‘change’ somewhere..

So…bi partisanship doesn’t mean “giving up” anything. That apparently means that for Obama bipartisanship means, “GOP gives up everything.”
Idiot.
And you all thought Bush was stupid.

I know that bipartisan has something to do with the don’t ask, don’t tell military thing.. bipartisanship can be expressed more openly.. under the new plan.

OP-ED
Heath Care Reform Revolution March February 24, 2010
To Americas Second Line Of Defense:
We Veterans are able , disabled or reserve. We once fought for our country, many still are, we where trained to be the best but it was with the support of those we were fighting for, The American people. we have fought with other nations, for there peoples freedom, Well our freedom is at risk. The freedom of the American people as well as the worlds is at risk, if we do not solve the health care reform issue; not just here in America but as long as there is one unhealthy human being the rest of the population we’ll be at risk for extinction. we are no different than any other species. We must act swiftly. Years ago during many past wars in a slumping almost none existing economy the wives, Mothers and children made great sacrifices back here on the home front sending us weapons armor and munitions that they assembled to send to us to help win a war. Why would we do any less for them. We were trained to be the best. We must stand together once more just as we did in our respective military careers. Immobilize to live 2/24/2010
We must stand strong, We must not waiver the American people are counting on us once again to show our might and protect the defenseless against the terrible wrong done to them by not having in the Constitution the right to all having equal opportunity to live a healthy and long life, for all mankind. They helped us receive many benefits since America existed. Lets pay it forward and honor the American people without health insurance by Marching for them on February 24, 2010 on all state capitals to show our legion belongs to the American people. (An unhealthy Human race makes it impossible to colonize another planet if that’s what we need for our survival). If you work against Heath Care Reform your working against your own survival.
PO3 Dethaniel Henry, Disabled

He absolutely is God’s gift to this country in comparison to the right wing neo-Nazis that want to take over, too bad most Americans are so brain dead and support Anti-Americans like Palin. She is the worst thing that could happen to this country, she supports her husband who believes this country should be separated into their own countries. As for people like the vet Henry that writes here they have other idea’s for folks like you and they don’t include health care or any other kind of care…remember what it was like under Bush? It’ll only get worse so vote Republican and you can see your Vets every day begging at the highway ramps.

He absolutely is God’s gift to this country in comparison to the right wing neo-Nazis that want to take over, too bad most Americans are so brain dead and support Anti-Americans like Palin. She is the worst thing that could happen to this country,
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I agree on Palin mainly because she’s Obama’s only hope of a second term. If he were God’s gift he certainly wouldn’t be threatened by the likes of Sarah Palin. He’d run on the support for his policies. The support that still exists is getting weaker by the week. Sounds like popularity to me!