Sen. Gregg (R-NH): Obama "Embracing" Hugo Chavez's Politics

[digamejh]

Oooohh, "shutting down the minority..."

[Even if it was true]

yeah, like Obama is the first one to ever do that!

[gisforgary]

nah -- bush v gore was shutting down the majority -- which is what the republican party is all about.

[carrierexchange]

Wasn't a problem when they used it.

[blair227]

Man they haven't just lost their souls,but also what was left of their minds.Rethugs are a dead party.

[ushadrons]

This is more sour grapes becoming bitter raisins. The voters in the United States have shut down the Republican Party.The more they talk the worse it gets. The Republicans just don't get it, their ideaology has been rejected.

[sirdaveysockrocker]

god what a fucking baby. when the democrats were the minority, the republicans and rove worked every day to literally wipe them out of existence. leaving behind just enough dems they could point the finger at and blame for everything, and call unpatriotic. Theyre not the minority because the dems secretly lost them their jobs, its the rights SHITTY politics that lost them their power. they should be crying mea culpa but their minds are too warped to do that.

[hobnailrose]

they should be crying mea culpa but their minds are too warped to do that.....sirdavey

mea maxima culpa!

[baseballnolie34]

These guys are such outrageous, blatant hypocrites it gets to the point where you just stop listening to them at all.

It reminds me of the boy who cried wolf...

[gamoonbat]

Wow! The U.S. government can shut down the minority who oppose Chavez by witholding money and munitions. These folks obviously do represent the will of the Venezuelan people!

[uforeader]

it's the voters who are shutting out the GOP by not electing them. if you want a bigger say, then get more people to vote for your failing party.

[WKaliberr]

Its actually one of Barack Obama's favorite songs. Its true. He said that in an interview with MSNBC few months before the election.

[plumbine]

The difference being that we voted the minority to become the minority. It was not forced upon us. This is democracy.

[CynicalSavior]

The GOP is the fat bully on the playground that bitches, cries and tries to change the rules of the game once he figures out he's losing and no one is scared of him any more.

As a once registered Republican, I'm sad to see what my party has become.

[lamouchemorte]

How was this piece of shit ever considered to be a part of Obama's cabinet?

[MISSBEBEBLUE]

prick.

[WereAllApes]

Obama shutting down the minority? Really?

[KataVideo]

shutting down the minority? like when rep sensenbrenner of wisconsin shut down the mics and closed hearings when democrats started to speak?

like forcing the minority to hold hearings in the basement? this is level-10 weapons grade red alert hypocrisy.

you had your chance, you knuckle-dragging conservatard, and you quit the administration. to hell with this moron.

[wayne388]

I meant to say that he pressured the GOP Senators in '05 to pass W's budget using reconciliation. (My bad, my character count limit was exceeded so I had to strip my last comment down.)

[wayne388]

I know Gregg and the administration had an impassable difference of opinion, but does he need to invoke the names of leaders like Chavez to cater to the talking points of the right wingnuts? Honestly, Gregg, criticism is a necessary and beneficial thing in a democracy, but I would expect someone like you to make a more intellectual criticism and not have to invoke Chavez. But, I'm just venting here since YOU pressured the GOP-controlled Senate to pass W's budget back in 2005. Hypocrite.

[PersonalJesus348]

socialized medicine is good

[wojiaojj]

If only the Republicans were as good at coming up with ideas as they are at hypocrisy!

[SubmarinerAndroid]

One day Sen. Gregg is ready to join the administration; another day he is implying that Obama is a dictator (Chavez isn't a dictator, but Gregg thinks he is).

What does Gregg believe? Does he think for himself at all?

[3star2nr]

the GOP is shutting themselves down.

[keithproctor]

Gregg is a hypocrite for whining about this.

[greyflcn]

Well with Arlen Specter, and Al Franken looks like Dems got 60 senators.

[SubmarinerAndroid]

Yes if someone would just slip some strychnine in Norm Coleman's soup we could get on with it.

[prognost]

Reconciliation is perfectly legal, both parties have used it in the past.

[maineladydi]

The Republican party is dying. They have a little ray of hope with Megan McCain, but the righties won't embrace her suggestions. Idiots!!

[Richardgwm]

The Republican party is dead. Gregg was a moron to embrace the rotting corpse and pass up the opportunity to be in the President's cabinet.

[MeanieMuff]

The republican party is not only the party of no but they have also been on a hardcore witch hunt ever since the presidential campaign began. I think that is what lost them the election and I think that is what is causing their very destruction. They just will not listen to the American people. Thank God we made the right choice... clearly the alternative would have been a disaster to say the least. Do they even know about the recession yet? Has anyone let them know about the swine flu? Idiots.

[marcleon007]

I dont know what is or are the critics against Chavez´ economic policy in Venezuela...State intervention? Well, the State in the US had just saved the banks on wall street!! And GM and Ford maybe will be also be saved...and that the American goverment give away the taxpayers money without requiring nothing in exchange is the american people´s problem! What exactly is the huge misstakes Chavez had done? someone?

[toosinbeymen]

And Thank God for the budget reconciliation rule. Otherwise Rs would filibuster EVERYTHING and nothing would get done.

We need healthcare, Sen Gregg. I lost my job 5 months ago so my wife, daughter and myself have been without healthcare all this time. Other people have it FAR worse.

We need universal healthcare, or the option to opt into medicare or SOMETHING. Come On.