Republicans question president, push back on criticism of 'party of no'BALTIMORE - In a remarkably frank encounter, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers on Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and economic stimulus, while they accused him of ignoring their ideas and driving up the national debt.
The president and GOP House members took turns questioning and sometimes lecturing each other face to face for more than hour at the Republican gathering.
Obama warned that their sharp criticisms of him over the past year make it almost politically impossible for them to agree with him even if an accord would help the American people. They said he was misleading the American people in saying they had offered no serious alternatives to his proposals.
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A long overdue civil discussion. No name calling, no hyperbole, no fear mongering, no talking points. Now they need to get to work...together.
ReplyDeleteScrew that he needs to scrap cap n trade and health care before any talks should begin !
ReplyDeleteLet's see.. it was the democrat who was doing the lecturing about working together.
ReplyDeleteNow, as I remember, wasn't it the democrats who locked the republicans out of all the discussions and REFUSED to talk with them or even consider their proposals?
But now that their bullet-proof majority in the senate is gone, we get a down-the-nose lecture about needing to work together.
To quote a well-known blogger..
BITE ME!
Obama can stuff it in his @@@ if he thinks the republicans should work with him.
ReplyDeleteAny republican that falls for that crap should be voted out!
and he screwed that traffic flow up tremendously in baltimore Pratt and Lombard ST were shut completely down many police agencies workin the BIG CLOCK.
ReplyDelete6:14 that is the reason why we have problems and can't get along because my GOD if the Democrats and Republicans can work together and agree there becomes a huge problem
ReplyDeleteSay Joe a few famous quotes, that kinda ring true for the situation we find ourselves in
ReplyDelete"A lie told often enough becomes truth."
- Vladimir Lenin
"The Hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who,
in time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
- Dante, "The Inferno"
"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the
ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each
dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own."
- Herbert Hoover
"People deserve freedom...
it is the most precious of all commodities."
- John McCain
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
- Douglas Adams
"In the New Year, may your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want."
- Irish toast
"Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it."
- Lincoln Steffens
"Mind Your Business"
- The very first motto on a U.S. Minted Coin
By his own record, everything he says is a lie. Therefore, he really doesn't want to work with the GOP.
ReplyDelete6:14 is a testament to whats wrong with the political system
ReplyDeleteNow that he has lost his fillibuster proof majority he wants to work together. When the shoe was on the other foot he shut everyone else out. The GOP is absolutely correct in opposing everything this incompetent idiot wants to do. They shouldn't make deals with the devil.
ReplyDeleteDon't listen to his words watch his actions !
ReplyDeleteHmmm...and I thought politicians worked for the people. I guess the republicans don't give a damn!
ReplyDeletegood to see you Republican Conservatives living up to what we all know you are: obstructionists. You have no interest in progress or fixing problems, you just want your party to have power, no matter what. This President went to talk to the Republicans to work out their issues, and, like he predicted, you don't want to work with him, no matter what.
ReplyDeleteYou are the problem with America and why problems can't be fixed. You need to learn how to work with the other side before we're all screwed.