I’m with Rachel here. Maddow NAILS it, when she uses the unrequited love analogy to describe the mindboggling “bi-partisan” courtship that ultimately betrays President Obama’s base.
The Republican’ts (y,gctt) are alternately amused by, and annoyed by Obama’s apparent infatuation with them, and his utter abject heartbreak at not being able to evoke the same feelings in kind.
“They’re just not that into you…”
The full segment is here but msnbc changed their embed code and I just couldn’t tweak it enough to make it work. This 3 minute YouTube covers most of it, but the full 5 minutes is greatly suggested.
I’m befuddled. No, actually I’m not. I’m angry.
The Republicans should be apologizing all over themselves for what they have wrought on this country the last 8 years. Instead, they are preening and opposing every GODDAMNED thing Obama has tried to do, despite his attempts to invite them over to watch the Super Bowl in his new digs. Despite his Courtship of them, which is downright embarrassing.
Not unlike the Football Star who laughs behind the back of some ugly groupie, while still encouraging her attention; the Republicans will use him like a starry eyed bimbo, and toss him away like a cheap whore afterword.
Only instead of driving her Daddy’s Porsche, or playing her because she “puts out” before turning on her; they are gaining appointments in his cabinet that undermine every freaking thing we voted for him to “Change.” Then bragging about it in the locker room Republican Strategy meetings.
President Obama?
Some people will never love you no matter how much you love them, dude.
Enjoy that fantasy in the privacy of your own domicile, and come back to REALITY in the public specter. No matter how much you dream of it, sir, it will never happen. They just aren’t that into you, indeed.
Senator Judd Gregg, a darling of the Neo-Cons, as Commerce Secretary? You REALLY think that another Conservative Republican in charge of Commerce is a good thing? You do know Commerce is a broad term for Business and Trade, and realize that those two things are the basis for our current collapse of all things economic and the death of the middle class?
Judd has demanded that a Republican be his replacement (Gov. John Lynch-D would be filling that seat if vacated) so as not to tip the balance to the magic filibuster-proof Senatorial number that Franken’s seating would assure. I’m sorry, nowhere in the rules does it say you have that choice. I could almost rationalize this move under those circumstances before hearing his “price.”
Worse? Obama’s second choice has no bearing on that precarious balance. This is proof positive that this choice was no brilliant “chess move” in his naming J. Bonnie Newman as runner up.
Like this resume? (my bold)
“Newman served as assistant secretary of Commerce for economic development in the Reagan administration. She was in charge of administrative operations for the George H.W. Bush White House. She was chief of staff to Gregg when he was a congressman in the 1980s, and she was one of the first Republicans to publicly endorse Lynch in his 2004 challenge of then-Republican Governor Craig Benson, and co-chaired Republicans for Lynch. She has held a number of high-profile positions in higher education, including several important posts at the University of New Hampshire (including interim president) and executive dean of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She has also led the New Hampshire Business and Industry Association.”
A Reaganite trickle down insider?
What the fuck, President Obama? You need an intervention.
I realize the draw of the “hard to get” one, but if you continue down this road, will Anne Coulter be next? If you have to have crushes, at least keep it in the same species, man. Ewwwwwwww.
I for one, am tired of the yelling tirades telling me I must not speak up or object to President Obama’s choices. Yes, its only been weeks, but these appointments are key in what happens the next 4 years. I tire of being shouted down and told I am doing the opposition’s job for them by daring to be dismayed, or angered by his capitulations to the Party that has destroyed our lives. If I hear even one more time that my questions are akin to naming a “Failed Obama Presidency” wrongly and prematurely, I may have to find a little rubber room somewhere.
One cannot serve two masters, so it is written. He has to choose, or lose his base seeking approval to the ones who scorn him.
My conclusion can only be logically lead to one truth.
Obama isn’t that into us.
Pining for someone who’s just not that into you isn’t healthy. Trust me. Been there, done that. Who has not?
He’s pining for GOP love, and we are pining for his.
This isn’t High School. This is reality.
There are no knights in shining armor, no saviors, no messiahs.
(scrolling up, I noticed post-fact that I dropped the titular “President” in naming Obama repeatedly above, subconsciously already distancing myself from him I guess…)
Obama, we get it. We’re not that into you anymore either. Grown ups don’t do Unrequited Love.
