As Great White Rat outlines..being oppositional does not mean you are being belligerant, it means you are standing up for less government involvement in the personal rights and lives of individuals and desecration of states rights. There are great ideas to REFORM health care…without spending Dollar One of the taxpayers. Of course, Obama has ignored this and downright lied and results to smearing anyone who opposes his mandate.

November can’t come soon enough.

He also needs to learn that “bipartisanship” does not mean lapdogging like his fellow jackasses.

Bawahahahahahaha! Sorry, I forgot who I was referencing there.

Yep, the “party of no” label isn’t bad at all when you examine it closely, but the way Obama and his cohorts are framing it is to make the GOP look like the party of no ideas, and thus they are soley “obstructionists” who “want America to fail.” And sadly, there are few to no GOPrs willing to frame the argument via making the point that the opposition party is called the opposition party because, well, they’re supposed to oppose the ideas of other side because they don’t believe those ideas are good for the country.

He’s had plenty of time over the last year to look over GOP ideas on heatlhcare reform but instead has taken every opportunity he can to lie about those ideas, suggesting that the GOP had no ideas, no plans, effectively painting them as not just the party of no ideas … but the party of “no.”

Just for a moment, can we put some historical context around that phrase, “the party of ‘No’”?

I would refer you to this document. Although Obama believes it to be “deeply flawed”, bear with me while I use it for a reference.

Amendment 1: Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment 2: …the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall NOT be infringed.

Amendment 3: NO Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house…

Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall NOT be violated…

Amendment 5: NO person…shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment 7: …NO fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment 8: Excessive bail shall NOT be required…

Amendment 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall NOT be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 10: The powers NOT delegated to the United States by the Constitution… nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Get the point? The entire Bill of Rights is one brilliant dissertation of NO. Having a limited government and individual freedoms means you need to say NO to those who want unlimited power concentrated in Washington, unlimited confiscatory taxation, and unlimited regulation. This whole country was founded on the very principle of saying NO to big government.

It’s about time someone in the GOP started embracing the phrase, and what it really means, instead of running way from it.

Why do they INSIST on living down to the “Stupid Party” label?

His participation in the summit is designed solely to look like he genuinely “cares” about what the GOP thinks

Only partly. It’s also to give him political cover for his failures.

You’re correct that he doesn’t give a damn about anything the GOP says on the issues (or the people either, for that matter). He’s determined to go ahead with the current Pelosi-Reid mess and force it on us no matter what.

And when it fails, he wants to be able to point to this “bipartisan” summit and claim everything was their idea, and it’s not his fault, and see, this is what happens when you get those evil Republicans involved. As in everything else, Obama needs to blame someone else for his errors. Republicans who go along with this ruse are setting themselves up for attacks later.

“Well you saw I invited GOP leaders and we tried to work things out, but they again said no.”

Obama’s hoping to make them “useful idiots” to continue this push.

Sounds more like an opportunity for him to adore himself and blame GWB some more. The advantage of it, though, is he won’t have the SCOTUS sitting right in front of him to diss without fear of immediate verbal reprisal.

The measure of arrogance is how much one adores oneself in relation to one’s ability to really be what one thinks one is. Obama’s arrogance is boundless.