Obama “needs to take a Valium before he comes in & talks to Republicans. He’s pretty thin-skinned.”

Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 5:17 pm by GottaLaff
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President Obama met with Senate Republicans today, for over an hour. A fat lot of good it did him.

Actually, the outcome is pretty much what one would expect, given the political climate these days. And by these days, I mean since President Obama was elected by a wide margin and the Party of No filled with panic and resentment:

“He needs to take a Valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) told reporters. “He’s pretty thin-skinned.“

Good attitude, Pat. Way to talk about the commander in chief. Let’s think back to 2001-2008 for a minute, shall we? What if the Dems had treated the worst president ever the same way? Would you have uttered similar disrespectful words about him? Even after he invaded a sovereign country illegally? Even after he tortured detainees? Even after he illegally spied on U.S. citizens? Even after he lied us into a fraudulent war? Even after he lost the trust of the whole wide world?

But back to the meeting.  What was the takeaway?

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.): Testy.”

Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.):  A “lively discussion.”

And by lively, he meant testy.

The president: “We had a good, frank discussion on a whole range of issues.”

And by frank, he meant testy.

Robert Gibbs:

“Obviously, there were continued differences on some of these issues. But the president believes that direct dialogue is better than posturing, and he was pleased to have the opportunity to share views with the conference.”

And by continued differences he meant testy.

Brownback said Obama explained and explained that he was “under pressure from his left”.

And President Obama asked for bipartisanship.

Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn. questioned “the audacity” of Obama’s asking for Republican help Tuesday after bipartisan talks on financial reform broke down and his landmark health-care bill passed solely on Democratic votes.

“My question is again: How can you reconcile that duplicity? You say that, but then the big issues have been constructed in such a way to absolutely be partisan,” Corker said. “How can you come in on a Tuesday after [the financial bill vote]? . . . It was odd to me.“

What’s odd to a lot of us is how one party, the GOP, can allow obstructionism to trump democracy, even after the president continues to reach out over and over again. That’s what’s odd to us.

It also makes some of us a little… testy.

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  • Lion Blade

    Good one, Juno,… for real :) !

  • Juno

    Oh 'Publican's, it's not that President Obama is thin skinned, it's that his patience grows thin due to your collective cerebral vacancy. We all saw your intellectual inadequacies exposed when Mr. Obama took questions from you during a live televised broadcast. To this day I still feel acutely ashamed just remembering it.

    Who knew the revolution would actually be televised and that it would turn out to be a republican devolution?

  • fukum

    Testy is just another word for uppity

  • Lion Blade

    If President Obama is so thin-skinned, then how come the Neocon Republicans are the ones that are whining about almost everything (including losing the election), while President Obama remains cool and tries to give them a chance for redemption? The only time that I recall President Obama getting angry (and rightfully so) was against BP and the other companies responsible for the oil spill. The Neocon Republicans can try to lie and to fake through a lot things all they want, but these games are getting old and unproductive.

  • Elle

    This is why it should be televised, so we can see how everything plays out, like the last time and he showed up the rushpublics for the fools they are.

    Elle

  • http://twitter.com/BoomerJack Jack M. Boardman

    They have no ideas…except the same old tried and failed ideas…all they have left is “testy.”