House Republicans have invited President-elect Barack Obama to speak before the entire GOP conference, hoping to set a different tone to the partisan wars of the last two years in which congressional Democrats battled President Bush.

In a letter dated Jan. 9, the Republican leadership team asked Obama to attend one of their regular meetings with the 178-member GOP conference "at your earliest convenience" after he is sworn-in as the 44th president.

"In accordance with your campaign pledge to work in a bipartisan manner and change the partisan tone in Washington, D.C., we would like to extend an invitation to you to address a meeting of the House Republican Conference," wrote Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio), Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and the four other members of the elected leadership team.

That's too bad. Every high level appointment (cabinet, undersecretaries, judges) should go through serious confirmation hearings from both sides of the aisle, without the rubber stamp approval process.

This sounds like the Democratic version of what the Republicans were doing for the last 8 years. I can hardly wait for the "questions" (speeches) that are "asked" by friendly senators.

Of course, that's the Big If right there.


More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

based on obama's comments yesterday on "this week" with stephanopolus, l suspect it's a free ride for everyone over the issues of the legality surrounding "... the whole issue of interrogations, detentions, and so forth...".

so, don't hold your breath waiting for the DoJ, an independent prosecutor, or a special commission to investigate the crimes that occurred during the BushCo™ administration[s]...including RATpublican and demoRAT senators and representatives who abetted them...anytime soon from the incoming Obama administration.

as l wrote yesterday: l suspect we're going to greatly disappointed in this regard.

the revolution will not be televised...

Good news!

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