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In reply to the discussion: To Obama Haters:Actual Evidence of Obama’s Achievements Shows You’re on the Wrong Side of History— [View all]napkinz
(17,199 posts)64. it was a real CONSPIRACY to destroy him; they actually met & conspired the night of the inauguration
Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration
WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.
The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured -- serves as the prologue of Robert Draper's much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives."
According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) -- who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama's legislative platform.
read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html
WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington.
The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured -- serves as the prologue of Robert Draper's much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives."
According to Draper, the guest list that night (which was just over 15 people in total) included Republican Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Paul Ryan (Wis.), Pete Sessions (Texas), Jeb Hensarling (Texas), Pete Hoekstra (Mich.) and Dan Lungren (Calif.), along with Republican Sens. Jim DeMint (S.C.), Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Tom Coburn (Okla.), John Ensign (Nev.) and Bob Corker (Tenn.). The non-lawmakers present included Newt Gingrich, several years removed from his presidential campaign, and Frank Luntz, the long-time Republican wordsmith. Notably absent were Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) -- who, Draper writes, had an acrimonious relationship with Luntz.
For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama's legislative platform.
read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html
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To Obama Haters:Actual Evidence of Obama’s Achievements Shows You’re on the Wrong Side of History— [View all]
sheshe2
Sep 2014
OP
I think our armchair psychoanalysis is very near the truth....Obama saw through him.
Fred Sanders
Sep 2014
#15
So glad when you got pissed you did something about like this, she! WARNING: UGLY PIC ALERT..
Cha
Sep 2014
#13
the RACIST Republicans set out to -- CONSPIRED to -- undermine him and the nation from DAY ONE!
napkinz
Sep 2014
#14
Great read ( from a year ago) but I have a question "born again Christian"???
underpants
Sep 2014
#8
Yeah, let's get some reality in here.. of exactly what this President has had to deal
Cha
Sep 2014
#54
it was a real CONSPIRACY to destroy him; they actually met & conspired the night of the inauguration
napkinz
Sep 2014
#64
As far as I can tell the anti-Obama "progressives" were hoping for somebody like...
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Sep 2014
#23
Point taken. In fact here is a thread challenging the Feds actions that needs
rhett o rick
Sep 2014
#57