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PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, you know, I think that if you look at my track record over the last four years, I have consistently sought compromise. Sometimes, to the point that Democrats have been mad at me, but I didn't care because I did what I thought was best for the country...
The problem that we have right now is that on the other side, just a faction of the Republican party -- it doesn't represent all Republicans -- that have decided to take a very extreme position and to use very extreme tactics in order to get stuff done. And the more moderate, reasonable members of the Republican party up in Congress often times have difficulty dealing with that faction. And, what we've seen as a result is the kind of mess that we're seeing today.
So, the upshot is this: if you look at both my policies as well as the approach that I've taken in governing, there is a lot of overlap between what I'm proposing and what Republicans have proposed in the past. I take their ideas all the time. What we haven't seen is a willingness on the other side to engage in the basic compromises that are required for governance.
This is yet another "Tea Party Denial Syndrome" thread!
Everyone knows that President Obama and the Democrats had absolutely nothing to do with any of this the last 2 weeks.
This was about the Yosemite Sam wing of the Republican party totally stealing the nation's attention for their own narcissistic pleasure. And they got away with it because the rest of their party allowed it and is too afraid of being "primaried" by a TP.
It's now got the Republicans singin' the Teabagger Blues.
Republicans are at 74% disapproval after the last 2 weeks, while Obama's polling average has him up the high 40's again while Obamacare actually gained in double digits.
Republicans did an incredible disservice to all of us. Wasted time. They could have passed this stuff 2 weeks ago and then used all this time to pick at Obamacare, but no, they shot themselves in the foot from day 1, and got nothing. They lost big time. Period.
Everyone knows that President Obama and the Democrats had absolutely nothing to do with any of this the last 2 weeks.
...and....the small fact that Obama has not vetoed...one...single...bill...during any of this.
He has not played any major part at all in the shutdown or debt ceiling! The whole fiasco was fought by Reid almost exclusively other then Obama giving a few public speeches/announcements here and there.
Bush never admitted..
in before the ...well, you know
Any guesses on what the answer was?
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, you know, I think that if you look at my track record over the last four years, I have consistently sought compromise. Sometimes, to the point that Democrats have been mad at me, but I didn't care because I did what I thought was best for the country...
The problem that we have right now is that on the other side, just a faction of the Republican party -- it doesn't represent all Republicans -- that have decided to take a very extreme position and to use very extreme tactics in order to get stuff done. And the more moderate, reasonable members of the Republican party up in Congress often times have difficulty dealing with that faction. And, what we've seen as a result is the kind of mess that we're seeing today.
So, the upshot is this: if you look at both my policies as well as the approach that I've taken in governing, there is a lot of overlap between what I'm proposing and what Republicans have proposed in the past. I take their ideas all the time. What we haven't seen is a willingness on the other side to engage in the basic compromises that are required for governance.
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