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According to Obama, Repubs are out of touch...

Twister Frost

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I think the whole bunch of them are out of touch, but the President really does not get it, and I doubt he ever will. An individual cannot spend his/her way out of debt, and I highly doubt that his multi-trillion dollar deficit is a 'gradual way' that is not harming the citizens or future generations.

Jun 30, 3:52 PM EDT
Obama attacks GOP over vision for the country
By JULIE PACE
Associated Press Writer
RACINE, Wis. (AP) -- Seizing on a political opportunity, President Barack Obama on Wednesday lashed out at Republicans as out of touch with the daily problems of Americans, hoping to sharpen the contrast with the opposition party as midterm elections loom and economic anxiety still runs high.

Speaking to a town hall in his latest getaway from Washington, Obama reveled in what the Democratic Party sees as two recent political gaffes by Republicans - one House lawmaker's apology to BP oil and another's characterization of the nation's financial collapse as an "ant."

More broadly, Obama said of Republicans: "Their prescription for every challenge is pretty much the same - and I don't think I'm exaggerating here: basically cut taxes for the wealthy, cut rules for corporations and cut working folks loose to fend for themselves."

Yet it is Obama and Democrats, as the party in power, who stand to take the most heat from the public concern about swelling government spending. The president jumped on a chance in the town hall to defend the rescue efforts for the auto companies and the big banks and to embrace the frustration about them.

"How do we get government spending under control?" he asked, giving voice to public complaints. "That's a legitimate question. And whether you're a Democrat, an independent or a Republican, all of us should be worried about the fact that we have been running the credit card in the name of future generations. And somebody's going to have pay that back."
Obama said the main culprit was not the costly emergency measures under his watch but a structural habit of the government spending more than it takes in. He said the answer is to reduce spending in a "gradual way" that doesn't hurt people.
Obama spoke in Racine, south of Milwaukee, where the jobless rate stands at a troubling 14.2 percent, well above the national average.

The stop in Wisconsin, a state Obama won in 2008, was ostensibly intended to allow the president to hear from residents in a format he favors. But with his economic leadership in deep question and national unemployment persistently near 10 percent, Obama seized a chance to defend his vision with gusto.

With the country fatigued by bailouts and worried about federal debt, Obama tried to remind people that, in his view, it was a hands-off government attitude that helped cause the problems he inherited. He said he did not want big government, but rather a "responsible government" that is on the side of the people.

"We've tried the other's sides theories," Obama said. "We know what their ideas are. We know where they led us."

Ticking off his grievances, Obama called out some Republicans for opposing a pending extension of unemployment benefits; a measure to raise the liability that must be paid by companies that cause environmental disasters; and a massive Wall Street reform bill.

Responding to House Minority Leader John Boehner's gripe that the financial bill amounts to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon," Obama challenged Boehner to explain that to the people of Racine. The president also seized on GOP Rep. Joe Barton's apology to BP - Barton later apologized for the apology - over the $20 billion victims' compensation fund Obama pressured BP to establish. The president scoffed at Barton, the top Republican on the energy committee.

"Did you all read about that?" Obama said. "He apologized to BP that we had made them set up this fund - called it a tragedy that we had made them pay for the destruction that they've caused. ... I mean, the tragedy is what the people of the Gulf are going through right now. That's the tragedy."

Once the audience got involved, Obama fielded questions about help for struggling homeowners, support for the military, the costly economic stimulus law and more.

The president seemed to enjoy the moment. And earlier, on his way into town, Obama found a different slice of happiness - at a pastry shop.

He made a surprise detour to O&H Danish Bakery, purveyor of a delicacy called a kringle - a large round flat pastry with a hole in the middle. He ordered one pecan and one cherry. A saleswoman recommended the cheese as well, so he said, "Let's get a third!"
 
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Anonymous

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A longtime Republican seems to agree....

June 30, 2010
TRENDING: Bennett: Republicans need to present more ideas
Posted: June 30th, 2010 02:45 PM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney



(CNN) – Republican Sen. Bob Bennett – the first incumbent senator this cycle to fall victim to a primary challenge – says his party isn't doing a good job of advancing substantive ideas.

"As I look out at the political landscape now, I find plenty of slogans on the Republican side, but not very many ideas," Bennett told The Ripon Society, a Republican think tank in Washington.

"The concern I have is that ideology and a demand for absolute party purity endangers our ability to govern once we get into office," Bennett also said in his speech Wednesday.
 

hypocritexposer

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"We've tried the other's sides theories," Obama said. "We know what their ideas are. We know where they led us."

True Conservatism has not been tried for decades. Policies and ideologies have been slowly creeping left for decades.

It could be as easily said that the Dems. have not come up with new ideas either.

More taxes, more spending, more regulation seems to be the focus.
 

Whitewing

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Oldtimer said:
A longtime Republican seems to agree....

June 30, 2010
TRENDING: Bennett: Republicans need to present more ideas
Posted: June 30th, 2010 02:45 PM ET

From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney



(CNN) – Republican Sen. Bob Bennett – the first incumbent senator this cycle to fall victim to a primary challenge – says his party isn't doing a good job of advancing substantive ideas.

"As I look out at the political landscape now, I find plenty of slogans on the Republican side, but not very many ideas," Bennett told The Ripon Society, a Republican think tank in Washington.

"The concern I have is that ideology and a demand for absolute party purity endangers our ability to govern once we get into office," Bennett also said in his speech Wednesday.

Maybe the pubs could try something catchy like "hope & change".
 

Tam

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Who is really out of touch when 66% of Americans feel the US is headed in the wrong direction after the Dems have had total control? :???: :roll:
 

Steve

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How DC works?... take a desperately needed war funding bill (30 billion), and pack it full manipulate the process and double the spending to 60 billion..

Long delayed, the measure came to the floor Thursday amid building pressure on Democrats to act before their weeklong Fourth of July


Democrats were optimistic that the war funding measure would pass late Thursday after Democrats added billions of dollars for domestic programs such as $10 billion in grants to school districts to avoid teacher layoffs

The House measure is anchored by a nearly $60 billion Senate-passed measure that blends $30 billion for the influx of 30,000 troops into Afghanistan with money for disaster aid accounts, and foreign aid.

Black lawmakers are pressing for add-ons of their own, including a $1 billion summer jobs initiative, which is so delayed that it couldn't be implemented this summer, and money to pay discrimination claims by black farmers against the Agriculture Department. They also hope to add money to pay claims related to the government's management and accounting of more than 300,000 trust accounts of American Indians.

The new Democratic spending includes a $10 billion "education jobs fund", And there's $18 billion in new Energy Department loan guarantees, to be evenly split between nuclear and renewable energy projects.

"To be using the Afghan issue, the war fighters, the military as pawns ... it's like no respect at all for the military,"

voting no on packing a war funding bill with 27 billion in additional spending would be a great Idea
 
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