Rahm Emanuel: If Republicans Oppose Obama They’re Not Being Constructive

The Obama administration is talking “bipartisanship” again. And once again, that means “Republicans had better get on board with our liberal agenda, or else.”

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said on ABC’s “This Week” that President Barack Obama will sign a bill on national service Tuesday as a symbol of his willingness to work with Republicans when they are willing to be “constructive.”
“When you’re the party of no, when you’re the party of never, when you’re the party of no new ideas, that’s not constructive,” Emanuel told host George Stephanopoulos. “We’ll work with people of all sides and ideology to get things done.
“And I think you’ll see this on Tuesday. The president will sign landmark legislation for national service. And the sponsors are Senator Kennedy and Senator Hatch, a Republican. And if you go through the process … health care, national service, as well as getting the resources necessary for stabilizing the banks, every one of those have been bipartisan. But the challenge will be: Will the Republicans come to the table with constructive ideas.”

You gotta love how he puts that. Either Republicans agree with Obama, or they’re just being obstructionists with no “new” or “constructive” ideas.
Now, I’ll admit that in the long run it’s never a good political strategy to simply be against everything and not every really for anything. But stopping policies that will, in fact, fail and/or exacerbate the problems they were intended solve is, actually, constructive. And given that Republicans are the minority party to the near super majority Democrats they simply don’t have the luxury of setting the agenda.
So disrupting Obama’s plans is all they’ve got.
Now, conveniently, liberals have chosen to define that as not being constructive. As wanting Obama to fail. But if Obama is promoting bad policy, why wouldn’t we want him to fail? And certainly this is a departure from Democrats, who had no problem saying that they wanted Bush to fail or obstructing his political agenda (which was met with cries from Republicans about “obstructionism” that were equally as dumb as the cries of “obstructionism” Democrats are making now).
It’s all a political game. As much as liberals like Rahm Emanuel might want to claim otherwise, there isn’t anything wrong with opposing Obama.

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  • http://Array jimmypop

    When you’re the party of no, when you’re the party of never,

    the problem was… they were the party of yes. thats why many of us said ‘no’ to them.

  • robert108

    jp: The fact is, we have had only one conservative President, and he defeated the Soviet Union, and saved us from the Carter economic debacle, even while obstructed by the Dem culture of corruption in Congress.
    Whenever conservatism is tried in our country, it accomplishes great things.
    Little dino is simply wrong, as he always is.

  • robert108

    When you’re the party of no, when you’re the party of never

    “No” to communism in this country, “never”. It’s right to say “no” and “never” to evil. I say “no” and “never” to both Rahm Emanuel and Barack Hussein Obama. All real Americans do. His ideology is wrong for this country, and it is our duty to say “no” to it.

  • http://verizonwireless.com/ ND in MD

    “After the massive failure caused by decades of conservatism”

    If, what you say you say is true, the conservatives have been in power for “decades”, how come:

    Government non-defense spending, even after adjusting for inflation, today is greater than it was in 1981?

    The federal government is larger today than it was in 1981?

    We have more federal and state government regulations than we did in 1981?

    We still have open borders and illegals keep entering the US?

    We still have worthless agencies in Washington such as the Department of Education and school vouchers are still a dream.

    In certain Cities and States, residence encounter difficulties exercising their second admendment rights?

    The Surpreme Court is still moderate to left-wing and there sre still many activist judges on the lower courts, especially the 9th Circuit?

    If we have had decades of conservative rule, I haven’t seen it.

  • http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

    I am so sick and tired of this bullshit. There is a reason there is two parties in this country.

  • jimmypop

    After the massive failure caused by decades of conservatism

    retard… you just wrote, less than two days ago, your party has been in control for the last 50 years… and you were finally right. if you have a source for something different, please post it.

  • ProudinNC

    His idea of bipartisanship is the 3 RINOS voting their way. Sheesh.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    That was Clinton.

    Again…making more stuff up, huh andro?

    According to a recent Treasury Department study, TEFRA alone raised taxes by almost 1 percent of the gross domestic product, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. An increase of similar magnitude today would raise more than $100 billion per year.

    That 1982 tax increase only slightly exceeded Clinton’s in inflation-adjusted dollars ($37 billion a year vs.. $32 billion) but it was much bigger in relation to the size of the economy. The ’82 increase amounted to 0.8% of GDP (average for the first two years) while Clinton’s was 0.5%.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Now this is good stuff. The democrats need to get out there and do some serious damage to the republicans. The time is ripe. After the massive failure caused by decades of conservatism, we could have the conservatives on the mat. Delivering the death blow would not be difficult.

  • sayanything-4625

    retard… you just wrote, less than two days ago, your party has been in control for the last 50 years… and you were finally right. if you have a source for something different, please post it.

    Dino just spouts off whatever comes to mind. It doesn’t matter if it contradicts what he said one sentence before, much less two days. I guess reality for Dino is whatever he thinks.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    I guess reality for Dino is whatever he thinks.

    That’s because I never said that. So many things have been attributed to me. It’s nearly flattering that so many remember little ole me! But not accurate.

    To be expected from the cons.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    A failed gutter ideology based on selfishness and greed with the mistaken self-image of being anything more noble.

    Says the guy who decries wealth while demanding yours.

    Projection is all Dino has. Well,…that and hatred for America.

  • robert108

    So much for the right of the people to assemble, and to seek redress of grievances. This is an attack on our Constitution.

  • Tim Arnold

    The Party of No, Never….ahem…How about the Party that doesn’t march in lockstep with radical leftists. Get a clue douches! Did you really think Obama’s model of felating terrorists would cause the Right to miraculously become the Left. Sorry Rohm has left his Hebrew traditions aside. The guy seems to love pork passing his lips even more than his boss.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Do you actually ever make a point likwid?

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    The time is ripe. After the massive failure caused by decades of conservatism, we could have the conservatives on the mat. Delivering the death blow would not be difficult.

    “It was a dark and stormy night.”

    “The boy stood on the burning deck, eating peanuts by the peck.”

    Anything I can do to help your literary career, Dino, let me know! But, you might want to try non-fiction sometime?

  • andophiroxia

    You’re not talking about the guy who gave us the largest peace time tax hike

    That was Clinton.

  • andophiroxia

    Clinton with the Democrat congress initiated the tax increase. Even in ’93 they called it the biggest increase in peacetime history. Clinton intitiated a RETROACTIVE tax increase, along with his Democrat Congress.

    Now, for Reagan -The Democrats in the Congress promised Reagan that they would cut $2 dollars for every $1 increase in taxes. Hence, that is why Reagan signed TEFRA. TEFRA eliminated real estate as a tax shelter and caused the Savings and Loan crisis as the effects were felt overnight. Reagan would not have signed the bill otherwise if they would keep their spending the same. Congress went back on their word and kept spending as usual.

    Making stuff up? I don’t need to.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    how come: yada yada yada

    Because conservatives are idiots and can’t even manage to stay true to their own filthy ideology. But since conservatives supported the things you decry and controlled the agenda for the last 30 years, they are to blame for your disappointment.

    You people seem to have some belief that there’s a version of “conservatism” that is the road to Utopia if only someone would actually follow it!

    That’s crazy talk. Conservatism is what it is and what is has always been. A failed gutter ideology based on selfishness and greed with the mistaken self-image of being anything more noble.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    Clinton with the Democrat congress initiated the tax increase.

    That’s why bush was handed a surplus and not a Depression like he handed to Obama.

    Now, for Reagan -The Democrats in the Congress

    The Senate was republican for the first 6 of the 8 reagan years.

    Congress went back on their word and kept spending as usual.

    The democratic House often appropriated less than reagan originally asked for. That combined with reagan’s tax cuts turned us from a creditor to debtor nation.

    Republicans are failures at managing an economy. This is the second Depression in the last century that those idiots caused.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/realitybasedbob/ realitybasedbob

    You’re not talking about the guy who gave us the largest peace time tax hike, turned us into a debtor nations and did that little Iran/Contra thing are you?

    Because everyone knows that even Raygun was not Reaganesque.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 Dino2

    The only thing you provide proof of is your limited intellect. You and citizen need to get a room.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    His idea of bipartisanship is the 3 RINOS voting their way. Sheesh.

    Good point. 3 Republicans break ranks to vote for Obama’s “stimulus” crap sandwich, and suddenly it’s bi-partisan.

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