LOL. This is the revisionist history of Republicans on how things happened. Reality tells a different story. If you think the Republicans were ready to compromise and were willing to help Obama, you weren't paying attention. The reason they went to Snowe and a few other moderate Republicans was because after a while they finally woke up and realized that all they were getting was stonewalled and that there was no chance for compromise from anyone else in the republican party.
I love that Republicans basically tried to block EVERYTHING Obama and the dems tried to do and yet republicans still blame the other side for not compromising. Now that they will have the house, they may actually have to compromise more as they will be partly responsible for what laws are passed.
How did Obama reach out to Republicans for cooperation? By telling them he didn't mind fixing their fuck-ups but he didn't want to hear a peep out of them while he did it? By pushing an agenda with which he knew they disagreed, and not even meeting with their leadership about striking a compromise on ambitious new legislation?
Sarcasm aside, I'm genuinely curious where all this "Obama is a uniter, not a divider" bullshit originates. So, please. Do tell.
Where exactly did he say he was going to fix their f%# ups but he didn't want to hear a peep out of them? Do you have an exact quote? As for pushing an agenda he knew they disagreed with, of course he did, that's what he campaigned and got elected on. Is he supposed to just abandon everything because the other side (the side that lost), disagrees? And there were meetings with Republican leadership. The republicans wouldn't compromise, at all, so they did eventually get left out. Which they then complained was the dems doing.
As for the uniter part, that was G.W. Bush's campaign slogan, not sure why you associate that with Obama.
I realize "uniter, not a divider" was Bush's saying, but Obama promised to do the same thing. I use Bush's words because they were so often ridiculed by a lot of the same idiotic pundits who fell for Obama's nonsense about governing in a bipartisan fashion. How on earth would a party line Democrat straight out of the Chicago machine bring anyone together? The Democratic primary itself was unbelievably acrimonious, largely because the Obama camp insisted on calling the Clintons "racists" at every turn.
