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  2. 2.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    Why don’t they just get it over with and call him a ‘Shifty Ni*CLANG*’ like they keep wanting to?

  3. 3.

    c u n d gulag

    In all fairness to Republicans, Obama only wants to go part of the way, not all of the way.

  4. 4.

    patroclus

    The lede was buried – Treasury Secretary Jack Lew earlier informed Congress that the debt ceiling need not be raised until Labor Day or so (when the earlier projection was the end of May). Consequently, there is no urgency until then and until the end of the fiscal year at the end of September. That’s the real news – the “jilted” thang is just piffle.

  7. 7.

    cathyx

    @Roger Moore: It’s just the opposite. They thought they were going to end the night in bed with Obama, not just getting a goodnight kiss.

  8. 8.

    patroclus

    Further, the fact that the debt ceiling need not be raised until September is an indication that the deficit is rapidly coming under control given the steady but not robust GDP growth and the effects of the tax increases and the sequester. And this means that there is a lot less at stake in the budget talks than in previous years and the supposed “need” for further austerity has been lessened.

  9. 9.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    On the day they were “wined and dined”, each and every one of Obama’s guests voted to filibuster Caitlin Halligan on orders from the NRA.

    Where has Jake Tapper been on this?

    and since I can’t bring myself to read the article, I’ll bet that it doesn’t mention that the deficit, sorry, THE DECIFIT! has been cut in half

  10. 10.

    kindness

    It’s The Hill. The Hill might as well be Fox News. They are hardly different from Fox or TigerBeatonthePotomac.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    I’ve read, as have we all, many many stories about the need for Obama to reach out to Republicans and how he’s doing a bad job at it. How come we never read anything about the need for Republicans to reach out to Obama?

    (IOKIYAR, I know)

  12. 12.

    MattF

    Um, well, if Republican Senators actually agreed with each other on policy, there might be some point in negotiating with them. Oh, wait, I used logic there. Bad commenter.

  16. 16.

    Wag

    It takes two to tango, and Obama has been dragging the GOP around the dance floor for long enough..

    Me? I wanna see Obama start slam dancing instead.

    Mosh Pit DC!!!

  17. 17.

    RubberCrutch

    They should chill. I don’t think it falls into the category of “real rape”.

  18. 18.

    Todd

    The Hill is still actively being published? Damn – what is their demographic, housebound totebagging seniors?

  20. 20.

    Bill in Section 147

    @ranchandsyrup: Seriously. Bush, now I could a had a beer – but Obama…Man! The next president is going to have to remove every letter on the keyboard and replace all the mirrors, razorblades and demitasse spoons. It is just how he rolls!

  22. 22.

    mdblanche

    The comments on there are funny, full of butt-hurt Republicans angry at the Senators for meeting with the Kenyan soshulist Muslim usurper in the first place.

  23. 23.

    pamelabrown53

    @dmsilev:
    Republicans don’t “need” to reach out to Obama because no matter how they obstruct, it;s still Obama’s fault. Also, too: Obama isn’t leading because he won’t accept that Romney won the election/snark.

  24. 24.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    Every time that Obama has presented any of the Republicans’ own ideas while bargaining with them they opposed what they formerly proposed. What’s their goal now?

  25. 25.

    Southern Beale

    Yeah I saw that this morning. Hilarious. Oh the fee-fee’s they HUWT ow ow ow..Such tender, delicate little fee-fee’s. Require so much massaging.

    /hurl

  26. 26.

    Southern Beale

    @mdblanche:

    The comments on there are funny, full of butt-hurt Republicans angry at the Senators for meeting with the Kenyan soshulist Muslim usurper in the first place.

    Eggg-zackly. I mean, fer crying out loud. This is a REPUBLICAN problem, not Obama’s problem. Most everything we’re dealing with is because Republicans can’t get their shit together. They’ve got a big rebellion in their own party, and it’s not for Dems to try to fix it. For the life of me I can’t understand why the fucking snooze media doesn’t see what’s so blatantly obvious to everyone else.

  27. 27.

    Chris

    @kindness:

    It’s The Hill. The Hill might as well be Fox News

    I think that increasingly sums up the entire American media.

  29. 29.

    pamelabrown53

    Dear John,

    Please don’t think me disrespectful because I recognize a pattern where just about everything is an excuse to not blog…then you blog more?

    Works for me.

  30. 30.

    Bruce S

    I guess my assumption is that people who read and write for The Hill think like that. Not exactly a shocker. That’s why they call it “The Hill.”

  31. 31.

    gene108

    Buried about half down the article is this nugget, about how the President maybe distracted from deficit negotiations because of OMG! Benghazi and other scandals that are worse than Watergate.

    Some Republicans think the president has become distracted from the deficit by intensified public controversies over the attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups and the Justice Department’s investigation of The Associated Press.

    “Those kinds of things can’t help but turn the total focus of the deficit reduction away from the White House’s perspective,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), who had dinner with Obama on March 6 and golfed with him earlier this month.

    Chambliss said he and his Republican colleagues have yet to set up a process for hammering out a deficit-reduction package with the White House.

    “There is no process in place, that is correct, but there is conversation,” he said.

    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who helped organize the March 6 dinner at the Jefferson Hotel, said that the White House and GOP senators have not gotten to the point of exchanging paper outlining their competing proposals.

    Of course, this is after the article states how Obama doesn’t have a process in place for deficit negotiations, which makes it hard for Republicans to deal with him.

    And three quarters of the way down is this revelation, which is sort of obvious to anyone following politics, since 2010 about who’s running the Congressional GOP (i.e. nobody).

    Democrats say one problem is that Obama has had difficulty finding Republicans with the authority to negotiate on behalf of their party.

    Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Republican Whip John Cornyn (Texas) face reelection in 2014. Although a credible conservative challenger has yet to emerge against either one, they remain cautious.

    Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared at the beginning of the year that he was finished with negotiating one-on-one with Obama.

    Really irks me about this article. It isn’t hard to put together a summary statement at the top of the article that summarizes the following three points in the article:

    “Despite White House meetings with top Congressional leaders, deficit negotiations do not look to be resolved any time soon. Neither side has a process in place to handle these negotiations, as well as Republicans not having a clear cut leader to handle negotiations for them and Speaker Boehner refusing to negotiate individually with the President.”

    I ain’t no English major or J-school grad, so I might not be concise enough for professional publications, but damn it is possible to hash out a thesis statement at the start of the article that is fair and balanced.

  33. 33.

    Jay C

    @Southern Beale:

    For the life of me I can’t understand why the fucking snooze media doesn’t see what’s so blatantly obvious to everyone else.

    Because they are, in effect, paid not to?

    SATSQ

  34. 34.

    gene108

    @Bill in Section 147:

    Seriously. Bush, now I could a had a beer – but Obama…Man!

    I wonder how they would’ve handled President Romney, because you would in no way have been able to have a beer with him or even a cup of coffee.

  36. 36.

    pokeyblow

    Some people like to wine and dine other people who would rather see them at the end of a rope.

    Oddly, President Obama is one of those people.

  37. 37.

    Chris

    @Jay C:

    No, I don’t think they even have to be paid. I think the environment they hang out with at the Royal Court of Washington has such an overwhelming Republican bias (albeit the East Coast elite kind) that the pundits simply soak all of it up and regurgitate it almost without realizing it.

  38. 38.

    Liberty60

    @cathyx:
    Yeah, they were willing to wine and dine with Obama, but they weren’t willing to go as far as let him shove his big black agenda down their throats.

    Maybe they are saving themselves for Herman Cain.

  39. 39.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @gene108:

    Some Republicans think the president has become distracted from the deficit by intensified public controversies…

    Now there’s the screw up. Republicans don’t think, they react. If they’re concerned about Obama becoming distracted then maybe they ought to stop howling like a pack of hyenas at every incident.

  40. 40.

    pokeyblow

    We’ve gone from “Give ’em Hell Harry” to “Give ’em Head Barack.”

  41. 41.

    the Conster

    LOL at the NewsMax headlines too. Conrad Black opinining about Obama’s scandals – because when I want the opinion of a moral authority, I turn to a newly released felon convicted of fraud.

  42. 42.

    scav

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: If they’re concerned about Obama becoming distracted. . . snicker more like he hasn’t screwed up yet so they’re tugging on the carpet and tablecloth in a nonchalant fashion while whistling innocently and looking the other direction. Detect obvious spell using a weighted two-sided die.

  43. 43.

    Trollhattan

    Shouldn’t that read “whined and dined”? Today’s Republicans are time travelers from 150 years ago.

    We are now in the midst of trying times when every one must be for or against his country, and show his colors too, by his every act. [snip]
    Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have but one sentiment now. That is, we have a Government, and laws and a flag, and they must all be sustained. There are but two parties now, traitors and patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter, and I trust, the stronger party.

    –U.S. Grant, 21 April 1861

  44. 44.

    Ben Cisco

    I don’t have to be bothered reading it, but just knowing the Ginormous Squid Cloud of Butthurt is out there makes me feel better.

  46. 46.

    Comrade Dread

    Yeah, we’re pretty much doomed.

    I’m sure if Caligula were president and he replaced the entire Senate with horses, it would be a more functional legislature and produce 50% less horse s***.

  47. 47.

    Chris

    @Liberty60:

    Maybe they are saving themselves for Herman Cain.

    Heh. I have a feeling that any negotiations between President Herman Cain and white Republican congressmen that didn’t consist of him agreeing immediately to everything they did would result in immediate impeachment. Though the idea that they’d let a black man go that far in the first place is pretty ridiculous.

  48. 48.

    A Humble Lurker

    href=”#comment-4459933″>pokeyblow: We’ve gone from “Give ‘em Hell Harry” to “Give ‘em Head Barack.”

    Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel and comments like that are the last refuge of the inane.

  50. 50.

    ? Martin

    Huh. So Obama paid for dinner and his date is the one complaining about not getting blown. Someone doesn’t understand how this is supposed to work.

  51. 51.

    belieber

    BREAKING: Why won’t Obama take a long warm shower with Lindsey Graham? What is he trying to hide?

  53. 53.

    MattR

    @gene108:

    I ain’t no English major or J-school grad, so I might not be concise enough for professional publications, but damn it is possible to hash out a thesis statement at the start of the article that is fair and balanced.

    Sure they could do that, but it would defeat their entire purpose which is to push an agenda while continuing the appearance of being fair and balanced. I am pretty sure the 21st century “journalism” model is to write an article about something juicy by leading with the juicy premise, spend the majority of the article defending that premise and explaining why it is so bad, then present all the counterarguments briefly in passing at the end of the article and hope that the readers either don’t get that far or are so enraged by all the red meat they have been fed that they don’t properly weigh the other side’s arguments that are presented at the very end (and don’t realize that those counterpoints pretty much invalidate the previous 60% of the article. ie. Paragraphs and paragraphs describing how the IRS has run amok targeting conservative groups and how dangerous that is to our democracy whle the last paragraph mentiones that the only group rejected by the IRS was a liberal one.) It has gotten to the point where all you really need to read are the first and last 3 paragraphs of each story to get an accurate picture of both sides of an issue.

  55. 55.

    PurpleGirl

    @Southern Beale:

    For the life of me I can’t understand why the fucking snooze media doesn’t see what’s so blatantly obvious to everyone else.

    It’s willful ignorance they are paid to show. The corporate honchos don’t want them to write about or talk about the Republicans realistically.

  57. 57.

    Chris

    @PurpleGirl:

    Eh. I could be wrong, but again, I suspect anyone with any interest in writing these things in the first place has probably been purged from the system a long time ago and that most of the journalists don’t even need to be paid to repeat Republican bullshit; they believe it too.

  58. 58.

    Yatsuno

    @pokeyblow: Wow. From Zero to Homophobic in less than three seconds. Do you think you could stop and THINK for a second before you answer a question?

  64. 64.

    Tonal (visible) Crow

    According to one highly-placed source, who was granted anonymity because he fears reprisals, the Senate Republican leadership “Feels that Obama is a notorious cock-baiter.” According to this source, one Republican Senator said, “‘He throws his pu**y all around, brushing your face with it, shoves his tits at you, then yanks it all away and gives the liberals everything they ask for. He’s a wh*re, through and through,'” and another “cried his eyes out” after Obama’s recent speech about cutting back the President’s war-making authority.

    “Republicans just view the President as unreliable,” concluded the source.

  65. 65.

    maya

    Where oh where are you tonight
    why did you leave me here all alone
    I searched the world over and I thought I found true love,
    Then you met another and pfft you were gone.

  67. 67.

    bcinaz

    Picture this: a roomful of GOPers with their fingers stuck in their ears shouting NANANANANANANANANA while PBO is explaining that the deficit is shrinking faster that at anytime since WWII. I don’t think they heard him and nobody in that caucus does actual MATH, so they still think the DEFICIT IS EXPLODING.

  68. 68.

    A Humble Lurker

    @pokeyblow:
    I’m glad you’ve taken that step forward in your reading comprehension. Now if you could just stop stooping to homophobic weirdness as opposed to actual criticism, you’d really have it made.

  69. 69.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    “Senate GOP feels jilted after being wined and dined by Obama on deficit talks.”

    There, fixed that for you.

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