Boehner: I'm All For Bipartisanship -- As Long As It Favors The GOP

The GOP definition of bipartisanship has always been "the other guy working to get along with me." Boehner as much as said it here--we reached out to Democats, meaning we invited them to agree with us. If they don't come to us, then there is no bipartisanship.

Congressional Republicans have been reaching out to Democrats, and neither Congressional Democrats nor the White House has made any attempt to reach out to Republicans? Maybe in the through-the-looking-glass world the Republican Party seems to inhabit...

I have said all along that the Republican definition of "bipartisan" is "do it our way."

There in lays the problem as to why we are losing the republic.
He puts party politics before country. As the proverb goes...
"He who puts party politics before country, shall lose both, the party and the country."

He said that the Republicans have "reached out, over the last year, and we're going to continue to reach out. But there's been no reaching back from the White House or from our Democrat colleagues."

Um, John, reaching out takes more than just one finger.

Apparently, as Matt Bivens reports in The Nation

This whole "change the tone" shtick was always hideously cynical, as Michael Tomasky has laid out in the American Prospect. So in a sense it's refreshing to hear it finally, gleefully turned on its head by Grover Norquist, a conservative who has the ear of the Bush Administration and is an old College Republican buddy of Karl Rove, the White House political strategist. Norquist contradicts the President, saying what we already know: Republicans are working to make political discourse uglier, not more civil. "We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals -- and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship," he tells the Denver Post. "Bipartisanship is another name for date rape."

ugliness is still the GOP's MO.

Heard the interview, his idea of bipartisanship is getting some conservadems to vote on their agenda. His message is the same old Reagan Bush crap that got us here. Lower taxes, (for who?) we know how far wealth trickles through marble floors. They don't create jobs, they create wealth. Record deficits, let's reduce revenues. This guy really thinks he's in the driver's seat, and in some ways he is, unfortunately.

His statement is proof that the Republican have NO intention of getting involved in anything BI unless it's in the men's room of their caucus meeting room.

John Boehner...the true Obstructionist!

This guy is nothing more than a self absorbed, spoiled, ego maniac!