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Offline Chris_

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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #25 on: January 14, 2011, 02:52:42 PM »
Pointless feel-good publicity stunt. ::)
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #26 on: January 14, 2011, 05:48:34 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on January 14, 2011, 02:52:42 PM
Pointless feel-good publicity stunt. ::)

Bingo. They're simply trying to convey the idea to their constituents that playing nice-nice is going to make everything peachy-keen.

The comments about Zyklon-B are out of line, IMO. They sound hard-ass as hell, but that kind of talk is just that - talk.

Congress has an obligation to be civil - but that doesn't mean you have to be uncivil, especially when war is being waged. By all means, Boehner & Co should be taking no prisoners, but in an appropriate way.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #27 on: January 14, 2011, 07:15:08 PM »
I'll happily sit with democrats.

Right after i have a big helping of beans and eggs.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #28 on: January 14, 2011, 07:50:30 PM »
Quote from: H Minus on January 14, 2011, 07:15:08 PM
I'll happily sit with democrats.

Right after i have a big helping of beans and eggs.

Now now, we're supposed to play nicey nice with the other side and just sit there like fools.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #29 on: January 15, 2011, 08:29:24 AM »
So, does this mean we don't have ride in the back of the bus anymore?
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #30 on: January 16, 2011, 11:12:22 AM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on January 14, 2011, 02:32:48 PM
The Repubs are too stupid to realize the Democraps stab them in the back every chance they get. More fraternizing with these critters is stupid. 

Thats all this is - TV is all about image - and when America sees how much Obama has lost, many more fence-sitters will give consideration to being on the winning team.

Always remember - Democrats only like 'bipartisanship' when they are behind. When they control the agenda, bipartisanship goes out the window and under the tires.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #31 on: January 16, 2011, 02:54:39 PM »
Momentum builds for bipartisan State of the Union seating

Momentum is building to mix the traditionally partisan seating arrangements at the State of the Union later this month, even though there’s no clear plan for how to actually make that happen.

Several Senate Republicans have signed on to the effort, along with a few key House leaders, who have endorsed Democratic Sen. Mark Udall’s proposal to head across the aisle – literally – and sit with members of the opposite party during the annual address on Jan. 25.

All told, more than two dozen members of Congress have publicly endorsed the idea. >>>

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) announced Friday she is now “co-leader” of the initiative, supported by GOP colleagues Sen. John McCain, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine Sen. Susan Collins and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte.

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When will the repuke leadership get the message? The Dimms are spinning into dog poop over thier losses and they don't know how to lessen its' effects. This is just a stunt to fool people who watch the SOTU speech to forget how few Demagogues there are left in the House and to make it look like the entire place is cheering and applauding.

This is not what we voted for and not what we expect. If they had any real stones, they would get up en masse and walk out in the middle of Kommisar Barry Mussolini's, Lie of the Union Address.

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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #32 on: January 16, 2011, 03:08:12 PM »
And the usual suspect Republicans line up to be counted among the Dims.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #33 on: January 16, 2011, 03:12:05 PM »
No no no no no, the Democrats are only proposing this for self serving reasons.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #34 on: January 16, 2011, 03:18:00 PM »
More style over substance BS.

I think it's time to start calling our representatives to let them know that we didn't vote for them to make useless gestures to appease superficial liberals, but to govern according to the Constitution and to repeal bad liberal legislation.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #35 on: January 16, 2011, 04:32:35 PM »
Quote from: miskie on January 16, 2011, 11:12:22 AM
Thats all this is - TV is all about image - and when America sees how much Obama has lost, many more fence-sitters will give consideration to being on the winning team.

Always remember - Democrats only like 'bipartisanship' when they are behind. When they control the agenda, bipartisanship goes out the window and under the tires.

Ah no, the magnificent Barry assured the Republicans they could sit at the back of the bus. :whatever:
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #36 on: January 17, 2011, 12:05:59 AM »
What a joke.

Anyone even remotely keen on politics will not buy one second of this.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #37 on: January 17, 2011, 12:23:13 AM »
So if Obama attacks the Supreme Court like he did last year, does that mean that the Republicans have to applaud him for it?  All in the spirit of bipartisanship, don't ya know.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2011, 05:15:11 AM »
And what is to be gained by this poointless gesture, no pics of an entire section of the room unmoved by barry's Mussolini like chin thrusts?
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2011, 08:36:57 AM »
So we're linking bullshit to chimeras and calling it an act of good governance.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #40 on: January 17, 2011, 01:20:28 PM »
So the half dozen or so RINO's that usually embrace the touchy-feely bullshit from the left constitutes "momentum"!  After the shellacking the left got, the Republicans better not do this. I think it's important for the country to see how much the balance of power has shifted, thus how important their vote was. Well, that and if I have to listen to days and days of replays, I want to look at the chamber and gloat and laugh my ass.

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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #41 on: January 17, 2011, 01:53:49 PM »
We only managed to gain a certain amount of true TEA party candidates, may of the old faces are still there, waiting to carry out politics as usual.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #42 on: January 17, 2011, 09:57:49 PM »
Quote from: H Minus on January 17, 2011, 01:53:49 PM
We only managed to gain a certain amount of true TEA party candidates, may of the old faces are still there, waiting to carry out politics as usual.
I don't give a rat **** on a soda cracker where people sit.

What matters is this idiotic gesture is giving linkage to the act of a deranged mind to political discourse. It would be akin to investigating Jewish bankers to quell the squealing from Nazi pigs about why the Weimar was such a miserable failure. This ridiculous circus stunt is giving credence to slander built off the corpses of the innocent to stifle debate among free people.

Maybe the RINOs are to blame but the RINO to TEA Party ratio is of such secondary concern as to not even ping my radar.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #43 on: January 18, 2011, 12:16:34 PM »
So let me get this straight:

1. Deranged idiot shoots up people in Arizona.
2. Democrats go on immediate offensive blaming GOP et al.
3. Rhetoric goes viral.
4. Deranged idiot exposed as lunatic, but rhetoric doesn't abate.
5. Now Democrats demand, because of the rhetoric THEY caused, that Congress be intermixed.
6. The usual suspects on "our" side, led by Udall, McCain, and the Maine RINOs, support the idea.

So now there will be no discernible identification of participants when cheers are made for Obama. They cannot be singled as a party. When they were in the majority, keep in mind they wanted the republicans to sit in the back.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #44 on: January 18, 2011, 12:24:59 PM »
Quote from: GOP Congress on January 18, 2011, 12:16:34 PM
So now there will be no discernible identification of participants when cheers are made for Obama. They cannot be singled as a party...

Joe Wilson should have saved his "You lie!" for this year.
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #45 on: January 18, 2011, 12:25:27 PM »
Quote from: GOP Congress on January 18, 2011, 12:16:34 PM
So let me get this straight:

1. Deranged idiot shoots up people in Arizona.
2. Democrats go on immediate offensive blaming GOP et al.
3. Rhetoric goes viral.
4. Deranged idiot exposed as lunatic, but rhetoric doesn't abate.
5. Now Democrats demand, because of the rhetoric THEY caused, that Congress be intermixed.
6. The usual suspects on "our" side, led by Udall, McCain, and the Maine RINOs, support the idea.

So now there will be no discernible identification of participants when cheers are made for Obama. They cannot be singled as a party. When they were in the majority, keep in mind they wanted the republicans to sit in the back.



There's nothing official yet on this, is there, from Boehner? Rush just said exactly what I wrote--that this is about hiding their decreased numbers (and disguising Republicans' increased numbers).
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #46 on: January 18, 2011, 01:27:12 PM »
Quote from: SGT Snuggle Bunny on January 18, 2011, 12:24:59 PM
Joe Wilson should have saved his "You lie!" for this year.

Joe Wilson should be calling a spade a spade EVERY year.

Oops.  Did I just haz a  :racist:   :fuelfire:
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Re: Gibbs likes idea of no sides at SOTU
« Reply #47 on: January 19, 2011, 04:29:58 PM »
I have a better idea for goofball Gibbs and his Democrat friends. We get to sit in the front and Democrats sit in the back.
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