Did you hear about this today?
John Boehner and Mitch McConnell cancelled the planned meeting President Obama had requested this week with these guys "because they were too busy and would hold it later this month". Check it out:
WASHINGTON – The White House has postponed a meeting with Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to Nov. 30 after top Republicans said they had a scheduling conflict.
It seems the Republicans may have originally agreed to this day and time and only later changed their minds but I don't know. I can't verify that. Hopefully this doesn't presage how they intend to treat this President.
It seems to indicate that these guys have little or no respect for this President and indicates no willingness to work with him for the benefit of the country. They were too busy to meet with one of the most powerful men in the world. Right.
Additionally, it's apparent the Republicans have every intention of killing a new arms control treaty with Russia--which we, the US, and the world needs and the Soviets want: "the chief Senate Republican negotiator moved to block a vote on the pact, one of the White House’s top foreign policy goals, in the lame-duck session of Congress. "
It looks as though we can expect nothing constructive from these gentlemen separately or together, or from this next Congress or from our government, as I suspected, expected and predicted--probably for the next 2 years.
Sad. Pitiful. Ugly, really.
Links: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/17/world/europe/17start.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=a2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101117/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_congress
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