Republicans say Fuck You America We Just Want To Make A Black Man Look Bad At All Cost

And we don't care if the rest of you have to eat alpo.

This is why I stopped coming on Current. Total blatent race card playing. If you don't agree exactly with Obama, you must be a racist. Are you kidding me, have we not moved passed this yet?

I wish this were less true...

i've been saying this from the get-go

So much for the party of inclusion and the big tent.

Has absolutely nothing to do with race.

The American people suffer in this mess, but the Republican boys in the beltway just care about their self serving interests. Maybe the representatives in DC need a reminder from the people who voted for them.

As far as Washington Republicans, with the exception of Mitch McConnell and a few other red state politicians, I think it was initially about losing power and the fear that President Obama would actually change politics in Washington. He had many of us convinced that this is what he would do so, it is entirely plausible that many of them thought the same.

I think McConnell's war cry was a combination of feeling slighted because he was not regarded or revered as much as he thought he should have been by this president. I remember there being some complaint that his advice was not sought on something or another. This spurred (egged on no doubt by the other red state racists), his attitude of "who does this black man think he is?" and his call to see this president fail at all costs.

Those that feared their gravy train might be derailed, rallied around McConnell, Boehenr, Cantor, etc., and so began their campaign to destroy the president. The racists, seeing opportunity, jumped on the bandwagon. The Washington republicans noticed the uptick in support due to this and decided to take advantage of this added support. This was not hard at all for them to do if they remembered that they had the use of the Southern Strategy at their disposal. They can practice all of the intolerance they want so long as they throw the words, God, Christian, Patriotic and Bible around to rev up the base which includes the racists. Along with that McCarthyite goody 'Socialism'.

In my opinion, the privelidged have colluded with the racists to see that this president does not succeed. Now, that he has shown willing to appease the privileged, it is too late to back out of the plan because the racists have redirected the message and gained a major stronghold of their base. It has to play out now and although many of us that are disgusted thinks this should be the thing to sink them, it won't. It won't because they have the media on their side and the moneyed-class and that is what this struggle is really about. The haves vs. the have-nots, the corporations vs. the serfs, the haves are driving the agenda that suits them and are using the have-nots, via giving lip service their views, feeding them propaganda, and bank-rolling their rallies.

Certainly one of their motives is to make the president look bad. Another one is ideological.

With all of the little issues brought up in right wing echo chambers,seems to me the rethugs want to commit murder by a thousand cuts.You can read the repeated nonense in some of the comments on this page.Over and over again we have to teach these faux news sheeple,if they care enough about America to learn.

Putting the country in jeopardy simply to make the sitting President look bad in the name of politics seems like an act of treason.

These GOP fanatics told President Obama, even before he was inaugurated, that they would not cooperate. Some are angry because he is half black; some are angry because he was relatively unknown before he ran for president, and some are just mud-headed, Limbaugh-sucking lunatics. No matter what, they never wanted to see him succeed, and so they don't care if this country and this world plunge into economic chaos.

I'm not sure that the issue is entirely racist, though I will not argue that racist undertones are not a big motivation for some.

I think that this has to do more with party lines than it does with racism. The fact that Obama is half black does not hurt for the conservatives who are racist, but I think it has more to do with the polar politics that conservative politicians have adopted where you are either with them or you are an enemy and must be destroyed. Obama's not really with them, so he is an enemy and must be destroyed. It does not matter if he is president nor does it matter if he is pushing for things that the conservatives were for between 2001 and 2008. What matters is that he is the enemy because he is not on their team. We've seen this bullshit with the healthcare bill which was dubbed "Obamacare" as well. Obama incorporated a lot of ideas that came from conservatives and let the public know that those ideas originated from those conservatives. But those very same conservatives shot the plan down because it was not one of their own proposing the ideas.

This is so pitiful,playing the race card to try and make hay out of this. Really, really pitiful. A new low for liberals, if that were possible. So how come it isn't sexism when libs beat up on Palin or Bachman? Rhetorical question. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel on this one.

Seems to me, the Republican Party is guilty of Rico Law violations. Prosecute them I say!

Good post thanks for posting!

Republicans say Fu*& You America We Just Want To Make A Black Man Look Bad At All Cost, SO ANOTHER BLACK MAN WON'T STAND A CHANCE AT RUNING AGAIN.

That's precisely what I've been saying since before the election. It's also been stated by key Rethuglinazis in Congress that their main task was to both make Obamas presidency a failure and make him a one term president. Why, knowing this would anyone in their right mind WANT to negotiate or compromise with any of them? Obama?

To understand President Obama read the Art of War by Sun Tzu.
The strategy Obama is using is right out of this book and if you follow this book not only in war but in life you will come out on top.
The first rule of this book is not to let your enemy know your plan of attack, keep them off balance and let them make the mistakes.
The rest just falls into place.

Here I am already considering how much money I can spare to a Sanders campaign on one hand, while liberals begin to show their racist stripes on the other hand. You know, maybe the Obama budget offer could have been much worse. I hear there are some pentagon cuts included, and although much of it stinks it is a better deal than Bush would have cut. One thing is never the equivalent of another, and throughout life I've found equivocation to be a preface of a lie. Democrats, even when they are 6 tenths wrong, are not the equivalent of Republicans when they are 9 tenths wrong. There is always a difference.

It is clear from the article that Republicans are using racist fear and fantasy to hurt Obama in the negotiations. What's the difficulty here?

I think the Repubs are pandering to the tea party so they can do well in the Congress in 2012.

They will come around, but they have to show that they are tough on the budget to win big in 2012

he's only half black and why is that the only thing democrats can come up with to defend Obama is ther no other defense for his actios other than he's black?

I am not certain if, though I do have an opinion, the Republicans treat the President so badly because of Republican bigotry or simply because the President is a Democrat (I suspect some of both). But, from my perspective at least, *why* they do it is not the big issue. The big issue for me is that they *do* treat the President and America badly.

Some here, and elsewhere, say the debt ceiling is a joke. That may be. For a long while there was no "debt ceiling." If Congress entertained and passed measures which increased spending, there was no need to come back later and raise the debt ceiling to pay for items which Congress had already voted to pay for (if they vote to incur the expense, they are, by proxy, voting to pay for it)... unless you are of the belief that, say, Bush and Cheney would start a war based on lies and Congress would go along, but have no intention of paying the bills. Raising the debt ceiling is *not* incurring additional expenses, it is allowing for expenses already incurred and previously agreed to, to be paid.

How anyone can attempt the argument that not paying bills on time will not adversely affect the economy, is beyond me.

If any of us were to stop paying a credit card bill, for example, we can absolutely expect the credit card company to cut off our credit. Our individual credit worthiness would suffer as a result, and we would either no longer be able to secure credit, or we would be forced to pay higher interest on any credit we may secure. Like it or not, it is how things work.

In this regard, America's debt is different only in its scale. If America does not pay bills which it has already promised to pay, the credit card company (the global bond market) will react in a predictable manner. Depending on the severity of America's default (how long does it go on that we do not pay our bills, and what portion - if any - of our previously incurred debts are we able to keep current), the bond market will react accordingly, raising the rate at which America must borrow. The worse and longer we default, the higher the rates will become. It is not rocket science or a jigsaw puzzle.

So, not paying our bills on time, or not paying them at all, will adversely affect interest rates America pays for credit. Should that happen, the dominoes start falling. Since all U.S. interest rates are tied to the government bond market, directly or indirectly, rates will go up across the board. Individuals and businesses will be forced to pay higher rates (although, businesses will pass the higher rates on to consumers). So, cost of goods will rise. American citizens would find ourselves with even less money to spend, in the face of even further escalating costs for food, gas, clothing, etc.

The only people who win in a scenario like that - more accurately, who *think* they will win in a scenario like that - are the Republicans. They wish to burden Mr Obama's administration with economic calamity not of his own making, and then to continue (trying) to blame it all on him. They seem to perceive that as a big advantage in the 2012 elections. My perspective is that it will cost them dearly. Unless they have somehow rigged the elections (which they demonstrate publicly and almost daily they are willing to do), the Republicans are going to suffer their worst defeats in history in the 2012 elections. The tide is rising against them.

The Republican's behavior in the debt ceiling "negotiations" is obscene. Is that bigotry, or just un-American and foolish?

,Some people need to go back to school and learn the English language so they can express themselves better without the offensive language. You lose a lot of attention and validity by using gutter talk. Too, some always have to play the race card. It's not about race. It's about simple economics. Leadership, or lack of it, does not display color one way or another. Leaders lead, They come up with plans and ways to implement those plans. They inspire others to participate and make their contributions. They encourage cooperation, regardless of party.

In the words of a down to earth comedian "Get er done!".

I have thought his from the beginning, I thought it was very apparent that GWB fucked this country up so bad that a Blackman was elected president. I believe the racism is rampant on both sides of Congress. These are the white elitist that have access to the best healthcare system in the world without cost to themselves, they don’t have money issues so how can they talk about my well being. Those that believe in a trickledown economics are living in the past when the CEO of the company started working in the mail room and therefore ended up loving the company that they were heading and they had integrity. These CEO bastards (not all) today are just legally stealing the wealth of the companies. Mission Accomplished. I thought intelligence (Obama) would top the ape like display of our former President, this is showing that beating your chest and incoherent speeches can get you farther than intelligence.

It is absurd to think that racism isn't a contributing factor to President Obama's inability to negociate with the Republicans..It is a well documented fact that numerous Republicans are racist, and they have made it known that they hate Obama..
When people see Obama, they don't see a person of mixed race, they see a Black man. He is disrespected more than any president in modern history, and his life is threatened more than other presidents..
It is extremely difficult for a racist to identify racism, and others are in denial about the problem..
Republicans are hating on America, and Obama simultaneously..They are greed/power driven, and could care less about the economy, jobs, education, or health-care.Their primary goals are to make President Obama a one term president by destroying the economy, and protect tax-breaks/loop-holes for millionaires/billionaires...