If by "my way or the highway" you are referring to Bush's famous "with us or with them" line I don't see the correlation. I do however see it when the reps went to Obama with ideas after he was elected and he basically told them to stfu, because he won.
You can't see where that unyielding attitude is in any way diplomatically unsound?
You'll have to give me something a little more specific than "reps went to Obama with ideas" if you expect a reply to that part. Which "reps", the same ones who watched the Collapse from DC? What "ideas", more Reaganomic voodoo?
Now for your other point about being unpatriotic when you oppose your leaders. All I heard when Bush was pres was it was patriotic to do just that.
I guess we were on opposite sides of the bar, then, because that's not what I heard. Oh, at some point,
months after he started that crap, he came to realize the mess he was making and started playing it down. A little late by that time, though, the damage had already been done. Once you drive in a wedge, removing the wedge won't put the log back together.
Now all I hear is if you oppose obama policies you are being partisan, not working together, unpatriotic and even racist.
I haven't heard "unpatriotic" and I won't bother with the last at all. Saying someone is being partisan and uncooperative isn't a bad thing if it's true. You want an excellent example? I'll give you one. It's mid-December and the Senate has hashed out a deal to extend the payroll tax cut for two months, which they give to the House. (This was something both the Dems and Reps in the Senate negotiated.) A day later Boehner says OK. Two days later he does a 180° and says it's not good enough. Five days later the Senate Minority Leader
a Republican tells Boehner he needs to accept this and move on. Yeah - when your own party is telling you to take the deal then you know you've gone too far down the road of partisanship and non-cooperation.
More:
John Boehner said flat-out, with no confusion that his #1 Job was to make sure Obama did not get re-elected. That was 6 months ago. That's beyond rhetoric - it's reckless and about as partisan as you can get.
The Super-Committee (deficit reduction) started out with the Dems saying "increase taxes, we won't reduce spending" and the Reps saying, "reduce spending, we won't increase taxes". The Dems came back with one dollar less spending for every dollar in taxes.
Reps: "reduce spending, we won't increase taxes"
Dems: 2:1?
Reps: "reduce spending, we won't increase taxes"
Dems: 4:1?
Reps: "reduce spending, we won't increase taxes"
I'm sorry, at some point it's not negotiating anymore, it's being non-cooperative, and the Republicans have excelled at this in the last year.
