Barack, enough with placating Republican. Who cares. They ran our country into the crapper and we still have to play nice? Enough already. Give the bipartisanship experiment a rest. It isn't going to work and you look weak. Just cut your losses and jam it down their throats.
It's really silly to think that Republicans are going to be anything but obstruct. Believe it or not, they aren't patriots, they are self serving ideologues who could give a rats ass about improving our country. Think of Rush Limbaugh. They want Democrats to fail. Sorry, but it's true and all the breakfasts, cocktail parties or meetings isn't going to do anything but waste a lot of time. Less than a month into the term and it's pretty clear the Republican mantra is obstruct, lie and pull silly stunts - think Thune and the diagram today on the Senate floor. Incidentally, Thune must think Americans are the dumbest people on the planet, and maybe he is right given some of them elected him Senator. Wow, he fashioned quite an argument - as good as any fifth grader in the country.
It's time to put a price on the obstruction. Put the stimulus package up before the Senate immediately and call their bluff. If they filibuster then make them do it. Please, the Republican party and their "tax cuts will stimulate the economy" has run our economic system into the ground. Haven't we put that sorry old economic "theory" into the garbage yet?
For God's sake don't let them continue to dictate what goes on. Enough. We voted for change and the change I voted for wasn't to see my President could kiss the ass of an ungrateful, incompetent opponent. I voted for competent government that confronts problems with rationale and decent measures and leaves the boneheads and their stupid ideas behind.