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Steve said:leadership starts or fails at the top
and when those who lead are incompetent, they often blame others for their failure.. just as Obama has done for the last four years...
there is nothing worse then a whining sniveling worthless person in charge blaming everyone else for his failures.. especially when he is the president of the United States..
so if you are looking for some one to cut.. pay the worthless whiner Obama what he is worth..
Steve said:leadership starts or fails at the top
and when those who lead are incompetent, they often blame others for their failure.. just as Obama has done for the last four years...
there is nothing worse then a whining sniveling worthless person in charge blaming everyone else for his failures.. especially when he is the president of the United States..
so if you are looking for some one to cut.. pay the worthless whiner Obama what he is worth..
The president says the sequester will be "a slow grind that will intensify with each passing day," with growth cut by one half of one percent and about 750,000 jobs lost.
"Every time that we get a piece of economic news over the next month, six months... we'll know that news could have been better," Obama says.
"[Republicans have] allowed these cuts to happen because they've refused to budge on closing a single loophole.
"They think that's apparently more important than protecting the middle class or the military from the pain of these cuts.
"There are Republicans in Congress who privately at least say they'd rather close those loopholes than let these cuts go through.
"There is a caucus of common sense on Capitol Hill. It's a silent group so far."
"I recognize that speaker Boehner has got challenges in his caucus," Obama says. "I recognize that it's very hard for Republican leaders to be seen as making concessions to me. I sometimes think, is there something I could do to make some of these guys – the House Republican caucus – to not paint horns on my head."
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Obama says "Democrats aren't doing anything either to compromise."
"There are members of my party who violently disagree that anything should be done on Medicare," he says. "I disagree with them... There's going to be some tough politics.
"We're not here for ourselves, we're not here for our parties, we're not here to advance our electoral prospects. We're here for American families.
"This is not a win for anybody. This is a loss for the American people."
Obama is striking a sober tone. He wants to send the message that a significant line has been crossed.
He's asked whether he's accusing Republicans alone of scotching the deal?
"Give me an example of what I might do," he says. "What I'm suggesting is, I've put forward a plan that has serious spending cuts, serious entitlement reform... I've offered negotiations around that kind of balanced approach. So far I've gotten rebuffed, because Republicans have said, not a dime [on taxes]."
Obama asks the press for suggestions of what he should do. "This is a room full of smart people," he says.
"I like to think I've still got persuasive power left," he says. "Let me check."
The issue is not my persuasive power," he says. It's what Americans want.
Q: Couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let GOP leaders leave the room?
"I'm not a dictator, I'm the president. [If McConnell or Boehner want to catch a plane], "I can't have Secret Service block the doorway. I know this has been some of the conventional wisdom. Somehow, even though most people agree that I'm being reasonable, the fact that they don't take it, that I should somehow do a Jedi mind meld [with them]...."
He says he can't do a Jedi mind meld.
If you are talking the leadership
Q: Couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let GOP leaders leave the room?
"I'm not a dictator, I'm the president. [If McConnell or Boehner want to catch a plane], "I can't have Secret Service block the doorway. I know this has been some of the conventional wisdom. Somehow, even though most people agree that I'm being reasonable, the fact that they don't take it, that I should somehow do a Jedi mind meld [with them]...."
Steve said:Q: Couldn't you just have them down here and refuse to let GOP leaders leave the room?
"I'm not a dictator, I'm the president. [If McConnell or Boehner want to catch a plane], "I can't have Secret Service block the doorway. I know this has been some of the conventional wisdom. Somehow, even though most people agree that I'm being reasonable, the fact that they don't take it, that I should somehow do a Jedi mind meld [with them]...."
what is the point of going to a negotiation with a person such as Obama who doesn't even know what the word means?
Oldtimer said:Steve said:leadership starts or fails at the top
and when those who lead are incompetent, they often blame others for their failure.. just as Obama has done for the last four years...
there is nothing worse then a whining sniveling worthless person in charge blaming everyone else for his failures.. especially when he is the president of the United States..
so if you are looking for some one to cut.. pay the worthless whiner Obama what he is worth..
If you are talking the leadership of Reid, Pelosi, McConnell and Boehner- I agree....Congress is supposed to control money issues by the power of the purse- but they haven't.... They are the ones that passed all the laws spending the money- but now can't agree on how to not spend it :roll: .....So in turn they are going to throw away more of their power to the Administrative branch/President and let him do their job...
So again I say- what do we need a Congress for? Cut their funding first ...
Obama says "Democrats aren't doing anything either to compromise."
And Obama claiming he is not a dictator :lol: I love it, his actions of Executive ordering his agenda into action after the Congress has voted NO sure makes it look as if he thinks he is. :x"I'm not a dictator, I'm the president.
Tam said:Oldtimer said:Steve said:leadership starts or fails at the top
and when those who lead are incompetent, they often blame others for their failure.. just as Obama has done for the last four years...
there is nothing worse then a whining sniveling worthless person in charge blaming everyone else for his failures.. especially when he is the president of the United States..
so if you are looking for some one to cut.. pay the worthless whiner Obama what he is worth..
If you are talking the leadership of Reid, Pelosi, McConnell and Boehner- I agree....Congress is supposed to control money issues by the power of the purse- but they haven't.... They are the ones that passed all the laws spending the money- but now can't agree on how to not spend it :roll: .....So in turn they are going to throw away more of their power to the Administrative branch/President and let him do their job...
So again I say- what do we need a Congress for? Cut their funding first ...
For once Oldtimer I agree with your statement here :shock:but what I have to ask is why when it was Bush that was President it was all about the BUSH BUST? You were not b*tching about the Democrat lead Congress, you, you dirt bag, was blaming everything you could on BUSH? So by your own past actions, you Hypocrite, you must blame everything happening now on OBAMA YOUR HERO. :roll:
TexasBred said:Tam said:Oldtimer said:If you are talking the leadership of Reid, Pelosi, McConnell and Boehner- I agree....Congress is supposed to control money issues by the power of the purse- but they haven't.... They are the ones that passed all the laws spending the money- but now can't agree on how to not spend it :roll: .....So in turn they are going to throw away more of their power to the Administrative branch/President and let him do their job...
So again I say- what do we need a Congress for? Cut their funding first ...
For once Oldtimer I agree with your statement here :shock:but what I have to ask is why when it was Bush that was President it was all about the BUSH BUST? You were not b*tching about the Democrat lead Congress, you, you dirt bag, was blaming everything you could on BUSH? So by your own past actions, you Hypocrite, you must blame everything happening now on OBAMA YOUR HERO. :roll:
Wow, not that was a kick to OT's nut sack. Caught him doing the double speak again.
Oldtimer said:Congress which did no oversight over his actions and ended up giving the Administrative Branch/President a "new toolbox full of precedence"-- which I told you back then might come back to bite you in the butt if a Democrat President got into power...
And guess what- I was right... I TOLD YOU SO! :wink:
Tam said:BTW Oldtimer has Obama YOUR HERO vetoed one bill that Pelosi and Reid had shoved through Congress? Or has he RUBBER STAMPED every friggin pork filled bill the Dems have handed him? Wasn't Obama the one that campaigned on going line by line and cut the pork out of bills he signs?
Oldtimer said:Tam said:BTW Oldtimer has Obama YOUR HERO vetoed one bill that Pelosi and Reid had shoved through Congress? Or has he RUBBER STAMPED every friggin pork filled bill the Dems have handed him? Wasn't Obama the one that campaigned on going line by line and cut the pork out of bills he signs?
Don't you remember- Guiliani got the line item veto ruled unconstitutional by the SCOTUS- because it cut into his place at the trough....
on Sept. 26, 2008, Barack Obama said he had stopped requesting earmarks as a senator and that he shared McCain's desire for earmark reform and the elimination of wasteful projects.
McCain noted that Obama had made $932 million in earmark requests during his first three years as a senator and he criticized Obama for saying earmarks accounted for "only $18 billion" in federal spending.
Obama replied, "John, nobody is denying that $18 billion is important. And, absolutely, we need earmark reform .And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
In his first six weeks as president, Obama has faced two huge spending bills that each gave him a major opportunity to demonstrate that "line by line" approach on earmarks. But there were two very different outcomes.
Depending how you count them, there are upwards of 9,000 earmarks in the bill, Obama signed the bill later that week after it passes the democratic controlled Senate. Obama's aides have downplayed the significance of the earmarks, saying they came from a budget process
The Omnibus, however, is loaded with earmarks. Obama and the White House could have used the bully pulpit to criticize them. But they have not been very critical, nor have they indicated any attempt to go "line by line" through the bill to look for wasteful programs, as Obama pledged during the campaign.