Gallup Poll Says Obama is Trying Republicans Aren't

60% say Obama has tried for bipartisanship, while 33% say republicans have tried and 38% believe democrats are working for bipartisanship. That just goes to show that polls are a bunch of nonsense really. The 60% number is good but should be way higher. The 33% number should be way lower for the "Fired Up and Ready to No!" party. And the democrats have made a far more substantial effort for bipartisanship compared to republicans:

President Barack Obama may have failed to achieve much bipartisan agreement on his major policies since he took office, but Americans give him credit for trying. Sixty percent say Obama has made a sincere effort to work with Republicans, down from prior measurements but still the majority view. Gallup

Commerce Secretary Judd Gregg Speaks

Judd Gregg calls stimulus bold and aggressive. He calls to put partisanship aside.

Steele Proves He's More of the Same

I didn't expect the newly-elected RNC chair Michael Steele to be so divisive so soon. He even calls up Joe the Plumber's favorite bone, "redistribution of wealth." Soon, he'll be speaking with Sarah Palin at his side and he looks like he'll be another Rush Limbaugh tool. The GOP is a vacant lot.
Sorry Mr. Steele, but the American people rejected republican policies and their divisiveness. Good luck with that. 

CNN: "I know we're living in the era of bipartisanship," Steele joked to the House GOP congressmen who gathered this weekend to discuss policy and politics. "I thought it was very important to send a signal, and you sent it loudly, very clearly, that this party, the leadership of this caucus, would stand first and foremost with the American people. You made it very clear that in order to grow through this recession that you not redistribute the wealth of the people of this nation."

The former Maryland lieutenant governor specifically spoke about his mother as he slammed the Obama plan.

"My mom was a sharecropper's daughter with a fifth-grade education," Steele said. "And my mother knew how to balance the budget without taking money out of my pocket."

Steele drew cheers from the crowd when he pledged the GOP would re-take the majority in Congress, beginning with the fight over New York's 20th congressional district — recently vacated by the state's newly-named senator, Kirsten Gillibrand. She defeated GOP Rep. John Sweeney in 2006.

"I'm in the business of winning elections," said Steele. But he also noted that he was unsuccessful in his 2006 bid for the Senate.

Listen to him address the House republicans, the most Palinesque types (it starts aroun 4:20 if you want to skip ahead):

He says he's in the business of winning elections. Isn't that Karl Rove's mantra? Ick.

Republicans Can't Stop Thinking About Tax Cuts

Instead of thoughtfully considering their thumping, republicans resort to the same old, what they call "back to basics."
Hello! Basics -- tax cuts -- don't work anymore. At least not as the sole solution. Get a clue.
The only thing I've seen from the republicans is whining that the democrats aren't listening. But no one is listening because they keep offering the same lame solution, tax cuts. If you want people to listen, you have to be saying something.
These are different times. Republican policies brought the country to its knees.
They say there isn't anything in the stimulus for job creation but everything creates jobs or helps people keep jobs, and at the same time invests in our infrastructure.
But here's where I'm with republicans, a whole bunch of money unwisely spent would be disastrous. Obama would have four short years in office.
See the stimulus here.

CNN: Most Republicans are balking. They appreciate the president's efforts to reach out to them, but they don't see that spirit of bipartisanship in the Democratic leadership of Congress. In their view, the Democratic bill is wrong in principle.

Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana, the House Republican Conference chairman, says the bill that the House Democrats bring to the floor "will literally be a catch-all of traditional pet programs and more government."

And it won't work, many Republicans say.

"The best economic stimulus there is is a job. And this bill is short on stimulus that is needed to create that," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee.

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