From the Huffington Post:
OBAMA YESTERDAY: ‘WE MUST FIND COMMON GROUND TO MAKE PROGRESS’
GOP SENATE LEADER TODAY: DUMPING OBAMA IS MY HIGHEST PRIORITY
Now who is taking the high road? Certainly not Ed Schultz:
Ed Schultz: Obama Stands Passively Mute While Republicans Walk Him Like A Dog
What ever happened to people setting goals and compromising on their way to implementing the goals?
O’Connell needs to develop some diplomacy. If all he is going to do try to undermind the President, then he might as well just have at it now.
So is Obama being a lapdog in suggesting that compromise is needed? Is that a sign of weakness?
Mitch McConnell is about the most obnoxious person I’ve ever heard.
Besides his words, he has a smirk that makes me want to crash the TV.
BTW, Diane Sawyer had a pretty good interview with Boehner today.
obama asking for compromise is like hitler asking churchill for compromise after the raf decimated the entire luftwaffe. compromise for obama is getting the republicans to abandon whatever shreds of conservatism they might possess, and go along with his runaway train of reckless spending and gargantuan sized evergrowing corpulent out of control government
The HuffPo is such a piece of utter trash. They use a quote from Obama that sounds all nicey-nicey, then come up with their own paraphrase for McConnell. Absolute trash.
Obama wasn’t interested in “common ground” on November 1. Before the election, he was telling Republicans to move to the back of the bus. He’s just scared now that the Republicans have the House and have 6 more votes than they even needed in the Senate to override any more of his agenda. They may not be able to repeal HCR, but they can systematically defund it.
I can’t recall if I posted this in the main thread but I just don’t see compromise happening anytime soon.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44709.html
I think it’s a fair criticism (I want to say I saw it on MSNBC) that when asked many times over during his speech that Mr. Obama wouldn’t accept that his agenda was rejected simply how he was presenting it. There is a major disconnect between how the President views the electorate and how the electorate views him.
I actually sorta feel bad for the guy because I just don’t think he gets how mad the electorate is.
They either said it or they didn’t say it.
Does anyone deny any of the three said the words in print?
Huffington Post has lots of different articles. I found the quotes other places also.
Wow, I love how Republicans forgot recent history. When Bush lost BOTH the house and senate, it was due to the fact he had left his conservative roots behind, ergo the rise of the TEA party. WHY is it President Obama should move even MORE to the center when all the Republicans do as their strategy is move further and further to the right? The republicans ONLY wanted to block everything the Democrats have done since gaining office, that has been their main goal.
I thought the voters wanted jobs jobs jobs, McConnell focusing on defeating the president does not bring people jobs, working on legislation does. If the Obama with his supposed win did in 2008 did not have a mandate, why suddenly do the Republicans have one?
Obama feels like he want on the premise of change. What would change have looked like if not health care reform, if not wall street reform? He ran on those principals, putting them into action was no surprise.
@marinm
So do you approve of this totally obnoxious behavior? I recall back in the Clinton years where every day was a new Gottcha Day. Typical Republicans.
They need to forget all the gotcha and they need to fulfill the promises they ran on, whatever that was. I just hear no no no and cut spending, never anything to improve things. The American people are easily duped, aren’t they?
MH, I think when a President still thinks that how the message was communicated instead of what the message was; lost him the House then I think there is a serious disconnect between what’s happening in the ivory tower of DC and what’s happening on Main Street.
If there are -R’s that see it as an opportunity to score political points…
I think there are two paths before our President. Continue the hard line progressive path or move towards the center.
One path makes him open to being attacked with vigor. The other shields him somewhat.
Isn’t the normal arguement here that the TP is ‘too conservative’ and they have to move towards the center? Why is Mr. Obama immune to that same charge if he’s ‘too progressive’?
I’m less worried about people blowing horns during a lame duck session than I am when Congress comes back into session with it’s new freshman class.
Defeating Obama will bring jobs. Its the Obama agenda that is prolonging this recession. Obama and Pelosi/Reid refused to compromise, or even include the GOP, when building the bills. This time they refused to even present a budget so that Democrats would not be blamed for even more increased spending. They abrogated their responsibilities as defined by the Constitution. They refused to even write a bill about the current tax status, allowing the tax cuts to expire, because they knew that too many Democrats were willing to extend the whole package.
The House was elected to stop the madness. The current Democratic leadership is more interested in building their agenda’s structure than helping the government. They don’t care, THEY have jobs. Well, for now.
Why is it that the TP is considered right of center? They are the center. Of course, to the current crop of Democrats, Obama is the center. Compromising the Constitutional principles upon which they were elected would be wrong. Obama’s agenda is poison to the US. Compromising to eat poison is not a compromise. Its suicide.
Moon, “no, no, no!” is needed to improve things. First one must stop digging ……
And yes, the American people are easily duped. Look who is President. But, now they’ve opened their eyes and are aware of the scam that was done to them.
I simply disagree. I do not think the recession would have been over and I think we would have gone in to full-blown depression had steps not been taken by both Pres. Bush and Pres. Obama.
For example,
Ask how many jobs are dependent on the auto industry? Not primary jobs but those jobs that exist because of the auto industry. Picture GM folding.
Do I think everything that was done was a good idea? No. I think most of the larger things that people moaned and pissed about were simply a group sheeple moan and piss.
It was the government’s resonsibility to protect us from economic disaster.
I don’t feel like I was duped at all. I suppose I am angry with myself for every even considering that old flip-flopping wind bag McCain once Hillary was out of the running, (another good example of special interest coming in and overpowering the electorate.)
Thank goodness McCain sold out and brought Palin on the ticket. Now something like that didnt fool me for an instant. All sound byte, no substance.
Sooo….you knew that Obama was incompetent and an unredeemed, lying statist? And still voted for him? Ok, then. 🙂
I agree about McCain matching Obama on sound byte status.
It is not the government’s job to protect companies from their own stupidity. We now have a failing company AND we have lost the taxpayer’s money. GM’s bailout was a union bailout. The stimulus was 800+ billion dollar slush fund that has done NOTHING to help the economy. Most wasn’t even spent until the election year, thus proving that it was enacted, not to help the economy, but to provide pork for incumbents.
If GM is not allowed to fail because they have a bad business plan and the unions are killing it, then what other businesses should be saved? How about Wal-Mart? If they were failing, would it be a good idea for the Feds to “save” it? Those countries around the world that cut spending and eased taxes are recovering. The US is the only 1st world country going the other way.
TARP was done because of a $500 billion dollar run on the banks. Why no investigation? Who could do such a thing? The stimulus was passed because politicians like Bush and Obama and Congress MUST do something NOW before the next news cycle. Even if it hurts.
One cannot spend their way out of debt, even if you print your own money.
Now we’re going to print $600 billion. Heaven forbid someone make a hard decision and just not SPEND that $600 billion. If we don’t stop now, when does it stop?
@Cargo, don’t go republican on me and put words in my independent mouth. I never said Obama was incompetent. I implied that I didn’t think he was the best candidate, of all of them.
TARP was done for several reasons. The most compelling reason was frozen credit. It had to happen.
GM is not a failed company now. It also impacted far more than say a walmart does. There is no comparison. One is resell retail and the other is manufacturing.
Moon,
I’m not saying that you said it. I said it. That’s my description of him. I just accepted that this statement: “I don’t feel like I was duped at all” meant that you voted for him with your eyes open, realizing that “hope and change” was a scam and that he actually didn’t know what he was doing.
@cargo.
I put a little more into my votes than slogans. 2 people ran for president. I look at things like supreme court appointments, vice presidents (as in who can I live with and who can I not live with.) and that sort of thing.
Frankly, I didn’t necessarily think that Obama or McCain knew what they were doing. How could either, having never been in that office before. After seeing who McCain chose as a running mate, the deal was done. Palin defines unqualified for office at that level. No problem with her in Wasilla. Lots of problems beyond that. Absolutely nothing she has done since then has convinced me I was wrong in my assessment.
So all that talk time and time and time and time again about how Republicans ran the “car into the ditch” and how if anything “they need to sit in the back seat” was all wiped out with: “WE MUST FIND COMMON GROUND TO MAKE PROGRESS”
What happened to Obama telling Latinos that they needed to come out to “punish our enemies” on election day (his ‘enemies’ being Republicans by the way)?
Seriously, how many times has Obama come out and advocated for “punishing enemies” (aka Republicans) or saying out Republicans don’t deserves the “keys” and they should “sit in the back”? Shall I go on? I can…
Now he says “WE MUST FIND COMMON GROUND TO MAKE PROGRESS”, REALLY?!? Odd… So the day after Democrats lost BIIIIIIIG Republicans, his ENIMIES, need to find common ground to make progress?
Can someone please explain this to me?
You didn’t vote for McCain because the VICE PRESIDENT was unqualified, yet you voted for an unqualified PRESIDENT who picked an idiot for Vice President?
“No problem with her in Wasilla”? So, her governorship is forgotten? One where she took on entrenched interests and became the most popular governor of Alaska in years? Yes she quit because of the need to continually defend herself from bogus corruption suits, which she had to use her own money. She was $500,000 in the hole.
McCain and Obama were both bad candidates. But, McCain didn’t want to “fundamentally transform” America. But, if Palin in the powerless VP office is worse than what we have now is your position,……..well, ok, then.