Big John Chickenshit

Bock. bock. Bock.

Senate Republicans don’t have much of an appetite to give President Barack Obama their version of question-and-answer time – not after seeing how Obama handled House Republicans last week.

“We’re always happy to hear from the president but I don’t really feel any compelling need to do it [on camera],” Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the Republicans’ chief campaign strategist, told POLITICO.

The White House has suggested that it would like Obama to address the Senate GOP Conference, with TV cameras present. Obama administration officials are eager for voters to see Obama operate in a format he relishes – and handle his former Senate colleagues the same way he did last week to House Republicans at their annual retreat.

Asked about the White House invitation to Senate Republicans, Cornyn said: “For what purpose? Was it for photo op or is it serious? The president can invite Mitch McConnell, John Boehner or anybody he wants for a serious talk about issues.”

Wait, I thought Cornyn was a big, bad tough guy cowboy. And he’s afraid of a televised Q&A with the president — who is evidently weak and spindly?

Cowards.

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  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Bob, it’s time we resurrected the word “poltroon” for them. It has that whole chicken-sound thing going for it and it’s a funny word for rank cowardice.

  • JackDanieL

    Oh man I can’t wait for the MSM to point this out and call them out for their cowardice, all the while praising our/their President for being such a badass…oh wait…

  • roxsteady

    Pathetic! And Greg Sargent has a statement from the Whitehouse regarding this over the top blanket hold that Senator Shelby has put on all of Obama’s up nominees. It’s clear that the Whitehouse has taken the gloves off. This is going to get really ugly. Wait until you see the tone deaf, idiotic statement form Shelby’s spokesperson, stating that this is because Shelby’s concerned about some National Security matters when it’s really about Airbus and the earmarks Shelby is trying to procure. His spox said that these were “low level political nominees”. WTF? If Shelby thinks, say the TSA head is a low level political nominee, he should get his ass out of government. It’s not playing well on cable or the blogs!

  • Allonfla

    Oh Roberrrrrto, you are so funny.

  • jane

    This calls for some Arrested Development.

  • Mike Schwartz

    I think we all need some of this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A43JOxLa5MMPS Where’s Elvis?

  • TomatoKing

    So this is the best that you have to report…that in a vapid battle of words with Republicans your King was victorious? Bravo!!!This is about as notable as Obama defeating his daughters in a pillow fight.Back to reality, have you noticed the unemployment stats for the past month? The fact that 7 soldiers were killed in Afghanistan this past week (why are we still there?), the Dow just nose dived below 10,000, and the CEO of JP Morgan, one of the banks that was too big too fail and was bailed out with OUR taxes, awarded himself a 17 million dollar bonus?Where is the progressive outrage? Stick to your principles and you will win back the independents.

  • Hippy Dippy Weatherman

    Well, TomatoKing, I agree with you in principle, but unfortunately every issue and non-issue – from birth certificates to health care to Afghanistan to Wall Street to Jobs to Health Reform to whether the prez disrespects the office by “occupying it while brown” – has been taken over by demagogues speaking to morons raising the next generation of complete idiots, which unfortunately appears to be 300 million or so Americans.The president’s one-upmanship on talking points appears to be able to win more support for his agenda than any actual progress on them, and that seems to go for the vaunted low-information “independents,” too.See Idiocracy for details…Now, if the president can score some points with voters by breaking republican balls, then perhaps he can win them over to listen to sound bite versions of actual policy, y’know, like health care expensive/me fix health care/make health care cheep 4 U…Never mind: I just got a mental image of 300 million cerebral cortexes exploding, causing damage that even the soothing amusement of Deal or No Deal can’t fix.Oh, and Cornyn is all hat and no cattle, as they say in South Texas!

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Ha! Tomato King! You make me laugh out loud, you fucking whiny, little bitch. This is exactly the transparency that you fucking pussies have been jacking off about for a goddamn year. But now that the dimwitted Republicans have figured out that any kind of meeting like this would expose them for the idiots they are after the ass reaming they got last week, now televising meetings like this serves no purpose? It is to laugh, fuck-o!You can try to change the subject all you like. You can deny that the Recovery Act saved or created 2 million jobs as reported by the CBO which means that the current 10% unemployment rate could possibly have been 12 %or 13%. You can cry about the Dow, but where wee you when it was at 6000 when Obama took office? Still a 50% gain, dick. You want to moan about the bank bailout when it was started by the previous administration? Fine, but don’t think that we’re so stupid we don’t know that either.So please, go whine somewhere else. Maybe Red State or wherever Andrew Breitbart takes his usual dump. Try being part of the solution instead of spewing Limbaugh talking points, and we might take you seriously. Until then, go away.

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Hey, Tomato King:Facts.It helps if you know what you’re talking about if you want to come here and leave a comment.

  • Lexaburn

    If no one’s paying attention, this Tomato chap likened the Cons to a couple of little girls trying to hit Obama with soft things. I’m thinking the the fruit ruler is one of the many misguided individuals that’ll claim to have supported Obama at some point.Whatever!More observations…It’s funny how a dork with the pseudonym “TomatoKing” felt the need to claim others view Obama as a ruler. It’s also funny how he chose to obliviously call out someone vapid delivery, then proceeding to deliver his own boneheaded taunts.It’s funny how the unemployment numbers mean so very, very much to the dodo bird media dorks all of the sudden, when employment has been down for at least the last six years. I know because half of my clients (psychotherapist) have either been out of work or slumming it with whatever they can find for the moment. Some still pay out of pocket, and others use a co-pay, where I’m actually seeing two to three people in a single session, which is very messy professionally, but convenient for those who really are struggling on a personal level. Those are the ones that actually continue to see me. Many have outright cut off contact with me thinking I’m some sort of bill collector, never really understanding how the doctor/client/patient relationship actually works. I’ve been hearing stories from all over the country, and the current spate of bullshit regarding the “10%” is actually an old canard. “Unemployment” in this nation is closer to at least 20%, but if you actually acknowledged the truth, the media dorks wouldn’t be able to raise expectations on a sensationalist whim. They pull the same shit with the Dow and the political polls. Scuzzbuckets!I’m a registered Independent. In all the Con gloating, they never go into the specifics as to why the country would EVER want their incompetent asses back in power. All they have as an EXCUSE – because there’s no true motivation for such a revolting development – is that the electorate is upset with both parties, yet the party in power will suffer the consequences. Bullshit!From the scatterbrained shenanigans regarding the Pi-T Party movement to the fake town hall asses plucked from the mid-west malls, prayer circles, and nursing homes, the Cons are all hocus pocus. Not one god damned thing they have to offer is relevant within the America of the 21st century. They’ve had to acknowledge the reality that the last three G[rouchy]O[ld]P[ricks] that had the honor of being president ARE NOT as “conservative” as they claim through willful disillusionment, so they’ve settled on co-opting the “founders” that cannot speak for themselves. Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.The Democratic Party needs to start going double duty on the CYA angle. The Cons are a pack of palookas, throwing limp-wristed jabs that hurt them more than their target if they ever landed squarely. It is the swine in the Fourth Estate acting as cornermen to the stumblebums. What the hell is going on in this country when journalists are trying their darndest to speak with one voice, all while a propaganda network proudly claims that the country trusts it more than an actual news organization. As if we even have an information apparatus on television still. We do not.Here’s what we all need to do: grab ourselves a pair of over-sized shoes, a sticky red bulb of some sort (about the size of a baseball), a funny hat (a derby, beany etc.), and white and red make-up. Stick the shoes beneath your TV set. Place the hat atop the set, stick the red bulb in the middle of the TV screen AFTER you smear the red, white, and blue make-up all over the damned thing. Doing all this would make about as much sense as what passes for news nowadays on the televised so-called “news” programs.Oh, and you can add a wig to the ensemble…if you want.Oh, and KingFruitLoop – SHADDAP!!!