GOP has a duty to deny Barack Obama his one-party state

[bijou]

"Include me out!" Sam Goldwyn's dictum was the message sent by all 177 Republican congressmen to Barack Obama when they voted against his so-called stimulus package. The GOP got this one right, for two reasons. The first is that the Republicans have avoided the taint of complicity. When this Raw Deal goes belly-up, they can look their constituents in the eye and remind them: "We voted against it."

It was also crucially important to say "No" to Obama - so few people do these days. The royal visit with which the Man of Destiny honoured his congressional opponents, in an effort to coax them into complicity without making concessions, showed how badly he wanted this big present to himself wrapped in a bi-partisan ribbon. It is a useful rule of thumb for Republicans that anything Obama wants that they have the power to deny, should be denied.

To see the greatest pluralist democracy on earth being herded by its media into a cultish adoration of a man who is determinedly converting it into the successor state of the Soviet Union is thoroughly alarming. As America goes, so goes the world. In that sense, the battered Republican Party is fighting for all of us across the globe who reject socialism. Obama wanted Republican support because totalitarians cannot brook opposition: it offends them morally and even aesthetically.

It is the GOP's responsibility to deny him the one-party state he seeks in the name of consensus. A properly ordered congress would display the unanimity of the Supreme Soviet. Freeborn American citizens, thanks to their media, are as wary of voicing public dissent from the Obama cult as people were of being the first to stop applauding Stalin during one of his 10-minute ovations. ...

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[franksolich]

Of course.

Even during the heydays of the Republicans, I always said it was important to have a healthy Democrat party, as a counterbalance.

It has to do with competition keeping politics open and honest; we all know how well-run these one-party big cities are.

[Redstatecka]

It is the GOP's responsibility to deny him the one-party state he seeks in the name of consensus. Freeborn American citizens, thanks to their media, are as wary of voicing public dissent from the Obama cult as people were of being the first to stop applauding Stalin during one of his 10-minute ovations. ...

Very little thanks, if much at all, goes to the advocacy/adersary media that the Democrats, liberals and leftists think passes for "news" media.

But real, major thanks to the non-advocacy/non-adversary media and opinionists, and also to the efforts of centrist or right-of-center blogospherians.

[JohnnyReb]

I am afraid that 2010 and 2012 will be Americas last chance.

[DumbAss Tanker]

The royal visit with which the Man of Destiny honoured his congressional opponents, in an effort to coax them into complicity without making concessions, showed how badly he wanted this big present to himself wrapped in a bi-partisan ribbon.

Lurking in this passage is as aspect of the situation that the press seems all too willing to pave over, namely that the President is actually powerless to negotiate the contents of a bill in the House, only the Speaker can do so with the minority Party from a position of actual authority.  His meetings with the House Republicans lend an appearance of negotiation and bipartisan consideration to the proceedings, but it is all pageantry and puppit show.  Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Dems are hitting the pork and payback for all they are worth in the bill, and even granting that Obama is acting with good will, his discussions with the GOP are not negotiations at all, just fundamentally-meaningless jaw-jacking if the Speaker isn't on board for them...and she clearly isn't.