It's nice to know that in this chaotic world there are some things you can count on to remain consistent.


RNC chair: We won’t advance Obama’s agenda, but we’ll seek common ground
November 5, 2014 at 6:40 PM EST
The Republican party picked up Senate seats and other wins from coast to coast in the midterm election. Gwen Ifill sits down with Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, to discuss the outcome and what the GOP hopes to do with its new leverage.

.................................

GWEN IFILL: It’s interesting that — first of all, I wonder if you think last night was a mandate.

REINCE PRIEBUS: Yes. It was an — it was absolutely a mandate. It was a mandate really opposing the principles and the policies of Barack Obama, because he himself made it about his principles.

It would be one thing if I — Gwen, if I was just spinning some political spin. But the president actually went out of his way multiple times — and he was irritated with these Democrats that were running for Senate. And he went out of his way to say, no, no, no, my policies are on the ballot. You all supported these policies.

GWEN IFILL: But I guess my question is whether it’s a mandate for you to do something or for you to just wait for the president to do something.

REINCE PRIEBUS: Oh, no.

Well, I think it’s incumbent on everyone to try and work together. I mean, there’s no question. I think it’s a mandate for everybody. And I guess that goes back to your question a couple of questions ago, which is, do people expect Republicans and Democrats to work together? And I think the answer to that question is yes.

But what I’m suggesting to you is that we can’t erase the fact that the election yesterday was a repudiation of the president’s policy. So we’re not going to work to advance the president’s policies, but we are going to work with the president to see where we can find common ground to get the country back on track.


.................................


Video and Transcript:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/rnc-chair...-common-ground/

Quote: conservgramma wrote in post #3

---

This is why Obama can concentrate on all the EO's he wants in the next 2 years.......he knows the opposing party won't stop him all in the guise of 'working together'....and he knows darn sure his own won't. Why not do whatever he wants?

---

Zitat

---

You're about to be lied to again about the "change" that will "come" to America. What's going to change is only who is going to screw you -- not whether you'll get screwed, and it will still come without warning or lube just as it did yesterday.

Now be a good serf and find a new stick for your teeth so you don't bite your tongue off; the old one is dangerously compromised from all the abuse it's taken over the previous six years.

---

http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229567

I'd use a stronger adjective than silly for example treasonous, corrupt, .

I like Denninger's summary:

Zitat

---

You're about to be lied to again about the "change" that will "come" to America. What's going to change is only who is going to screw you -- not whether you'll get screwed, and it will still come without warning or lube just as it did yesterday.

Now be a good serf and find a new stick for your teeth so you don't bite your tongue off; the old one is dangerously compromised from all the abuse it's taken over the previous six years.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229567

---