They still don't get the fact that the word compromise doesn't mean I was wrong you get your way.

Didn't a bunch of republicans walk out on Clinton back in the day?

He should have done the polite thing: held up handwritten signs, played with his Blackberry, taken a nap, or mentally reviewed the eloquent brilliance and congeniality of the last President.

Shorter GOP: "WAAAAAAHHHHH! We're not getting our bottoms kissed!"

As to Palin and Steele, they, like the rest of the GOP, has two sets of rules for everything; one very stringent that the Dems should adhere to, and one very loose that they themselves follow. IOKIYAR is alive and well.

The Republicans are not interested in what is good for the country. The are all solely focused on what is best for them as a party. They are dead as a functioning player in national two party governance. The sooner this fact becomes obvious to all, the sooner a new party can rise from their ashes and take that empty place.

These guys come to your house, piss on the carpets and then go tell your neighbors you're inhospitable. Republicans are little more than ignorant a-holes, and proud of it. I don't mean as a group, I mean it seems to be their platform.

The official GOP response given by Charles Boustany was proof that they hadn't listened to or read Obama's speech beforehand. Not only was it short, it basically repeated all the claims that Obama refuted item by item (ie. government takeover of healthcare). And if the GOP really does have a plan, why didn't they say what it was in that response? Simply telling people to go to healthcare.gop.gov to see their plan doesn't quite work when the webpage itself doesn't really state that they have a plan. A list of general principals doesn't count...

Shimkus is up there with Bachmann in loony wingnuttiness.

They want nothing to succeed. They are plowing salt into the national political soil.

They should reap what they sow...

Shorter entire rightwing (includes 95% of elected Republicans):

"OW!!! BUTTHURT, BUTTHURT!!! NO FAIR ME NO GET MY WAY!!!!"

The image that immediately springs to mind to sum up the behavoir of Republicans in general is that of a young child, laying on the floor writhing and screaming, drumming his heels.

I'm really getting tired of these Rebabykins.

Instead of the handwritten signs, waving copies of their legislation, whines, boos and other verbal outcries, they could better represent their true nature by just wearing red rubber noses to these events.