Bipartisan Meeting with Obama: “American People Did Not Vote for Gridlock”… No, We Voted Against Your Socialist Agenda, Mr. President (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on November 30, 2010
Telling quote from POTUS in the newscast speech below, which summarizes his bipartisan meeting with congressional leaders today:
“The American people did not vote for gridlock. They did not vote for unyielding partisanship.”
My Rough Translation of What POTUS Really Meant: Expect gridlock. Expect unyielding partisanship. “Unyielding” is when the GOP members don’t agree 100 percent with me. After all, I won. Therefore, all gridlock and delays will be all their fault. And the tea partiers. And Rush Limbaugh’s. And Fox News’. And all other bitter, Constitution-clinging Americans who don’t agree with me. And if I can blame George W. Bush for another two years, I most certainly will.
Don’t expect Obama to change his socialist, narcissistic spots anytime during the next two years. “Compromise” is a foreign term to him, listening without yammering a foreign concept. He’s a self-absorbed, lilliputian empty-suit man-child who whines that the press never thanks him, American voters never thank him, and Republicans don’t always speak complimentarily about him.
Smack this crybaby whiner up side the head already…
Trust that he is willfully/angrily/stupidly/cluelessly (take your pick) ignoring his lowest approval numbers EVER — only 39 percent approval now.
While Americans did not vote for gridlock, Mr. President, a considerable majority voted in the mid-term elections AGAINST your socialist/Marxist agenda.
Against your passion for unsustainable spending and borrowing from China.
Against your unconstitutional, trillion-dollar, socialized policies, such as the horrific ObamaCare.
Against bigger and more intrusive government.
Against redistribution of wealth that destroys free market principles.
Against dismantling the rights and freedoms promised in the US Constitution.
Against those in Congress and local governments who share the same destructive, anti-American socialist/Marxist ideologies.
I’d like to think the president will work with both parties. But he hasn’t to date.
If there are only two choices available in Barack’s ego-centric, statist brain — “I won” vs. “gridlock,” I vote for a double patty of gridlock with extra cheese on a sesame seed bun.
Associated Press: Obama: Bipartisan Meeting Was ‘Productive’
From Washington Post, Obama, GOP praise collegiality but make little progress on key issues:
President Obama and congressional Republican leaders praised each other for collegiality after a much-anticipated meeting Tuesday at the White House, but they made little headway on the issues that divide the two parties.
Their most tangible accomplishment was an agreement to work toward resolving an impasse over tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Jacob Lew, head of the Office of Management and Budget, will work with a group of four lawmakers – two from each party – “to break through this logjam,” Obama said.
The meeting, originally scheduled for an hour in the Roosevelt Room, turned into a two-hour session, including a 35-minute gathering in a private dining room that was not attended by Obama advisers. Instead, Obama and the eight lawmakers held what the White House described as a “more intimate session.”
Obama told lawmakers he needed to do more to make sure the two parties could work together, press secretary Robert Gibbs said later. White House officials said the GOP did not offer a similar pledge.
“The president acknowledged he needed to do better,” Gibbs said.
Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) – who has complained that at a bipartisan White House meeting two years ago Obama told Republicans “I won” – said he found a president who very much understood that his party lost the midterm elections.
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Tuesday’s meeting has been a source of controversy. Obama announced the session two days after the elections as a way to effectively launch the second stage of his presidency, one in which he will be forced to share power with the GOP.
But almost two weeks ago, on the eve of the initial date of the meeting, Republican leaders told the White House they were too busy managing their affairs on Capitol Hill, leaving some Democrats – but not the White House – accusing the GOP of snubbing the president.
Obama had initially said the meeting would be held in the afternoon and would turn into a dinner with the leaders, but the two sides instead eventually agreed to a shorter, morning session.
Both sides had heavily anticipated and planned for the meeting, as Obama wanted to use the meeting to demonstrate his commitment to reducing the partisan tone in Washington, as he had pledged in his 2008 campaign. But Republican leaders wanted to emphasize that the voters had given them a mandate in November to oppose Obama’s agenda.
On Monday, Obama said he hoped the meeting would serve simply as a “first step toward a new and productive working relationship” between the two parties, pointing to the “shared responsibility” both sides have now that Republicans are about to assume control of the House.
In an appeal to Republican deficit hawks, Obama on Monday also proposed a two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers, a potential area of agreement that Republicans welcomed, saying it was one of their ideas.
“Going forward, we’re going to have to make some additional very tough decisions that this town has put off for a very long time. And that’s what this upcoming week is really about,” Obama said. “My hope is that, starting today, we can begin a bipartisan conversation about our future, because we face challenges that will require the cooperation of Democrats, Republicans and independents. Everybody is going to have to cooperate. We can’t afford to fall back onto the same old ideologies or the same stale sound bites.”
With just a month of business left until the Christmas recess, the White House is eager to reach agreement on tax cuts to move forward on the president’s other goals, especially the treaty with Russia and the extension of some stimulus funds.
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The Lonely Conservative: Carter Wants Obama to Stop Faking Bipartisanship
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The Conservative Pup: Communist Party USA Comes Out–Transparency At Last!
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