{"id":575,"date":"2010-02-02T02:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-02-02T02:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T10:18:00","slug":"pense-lies-for-the-party-of-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/pense-lies-for-the-party-of-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Pense Lies for the Party of No"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two things remain constant in today\u2019s GOP.  No lie is to bold for them, and they will oppose any position that Obama supports.<\/p>\n

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\"gop-no\"<\/a> Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), chairman of the House Republican Conference, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to play down<\/font> Obama\u2019s strong defense<\/a> of his administration\u2019s policies at Friday\u2019s House GOP retreat in Baltimore. Trying to refute the claim that Republicans have become a \u201cparty of no,\u201d Pence replied:<\/font><\/p>\n

PENCE: Well, look, in the last year, you know, frankly Steve, there were a number of bills that we did support the administration on, most especially regarding our troops and regarding our veterans. We kept our word. We set politics aside and stood strongly with the president in his call for reinforcement and for funding<\/span>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Watch it:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Though Pence said that Republicans found common ground with the President on troop funding in 2009, in reality Republicans in both the House and Senate have blocked defense spending for political reasons. On Oct. 8, Pence<\/font> joined House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH)<\/a> and 129 other Republicans in the House in voting against the 2010 Department of Defense Authorization bill. Pence and Boehner opposed the bill because the measure included \u201c<\/font>hate crimes provisions designed to protect gays and lesbians<\/a>.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

Republicans in the Senate followed Pence and Boehner\u2019s obstructionist lead in December, filibustering the 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations Act as a way of delaying the Senate health care vote… [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Why don\u2019t these liars just come out and and admit that their hate for LGBT people is more important to them than providing for their troops?  Have I become a defense hawk?  Hardly!  But as much as I hate and oppose war, even I know that we must provide the very best for our troops in harm\u2019s way.  The irony here is that the warmongers don\u2019t see it that way.  To the GOP our troops are just cannon fodder.<\/p>\n

Of course this is just one small example of the idiocy of the Party of No.  Both Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow had wonderful takes on this last night.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Keith:<\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s Rachel:<\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I have to admit that I was taken aback when Obama started to adopt GOP talking points.  I wondered if he was crazy!  The way he has the GOP so twisted around that their heads are now up their own arses proves that he is crazy.  Crazy like a fox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two things remain constant in today\u2019s GOP.  No lie is to bold for them, and they will oppose any position that Obama supports. Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), chairman of the House Republican Conference, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to play down Obama\u2019s strong defense of his administration\u2019s policies at Friday\u2019s House GOP retreat […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}