Posted on 01/23/2009 10:04:12 PM PST by Hildy
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who's in charge of these negotiations. "I won," Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
The exchange arose as top House and Senate Republicans expressed concern to the president about the amount of spending in the package. They also raised red flags about a refundable tax credit that returns money to those who don’t pay income taxes, the sources said. The Republicans stressed that they want to include more middle class tax cuts in the package, citing their proposal to cut the two lowest tax rates — 15 percent and 10 percent — to ten percent and five percent, rather than issue the refundable credit Obama wants.
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When is the GOP going to do something. PUT IT ON TELEVISION...Tell the people what the Dems are really doing with their money. DO SOMETHING.
I feel like I'm living in an alternative universe and it's spiralling down into a deep black hole.....
The GOP is too busy crossing that aisle and kissing this guy’s behind. It’s disgusting, and by the way Obama, you did not win, the media won for you.
Too bad we didn't have a GOP with balls, who'd respond, "So did we. We're here to make sure you don't think that means you're emperor."
"I won"??? This guy is an even bigger tool than I thought.
It is childish and arrogant and quite unbelievable.
I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I’d give my right hand to have Hillary as President right now.
There's a joke that could get one banned in there... ;)
GOP to Obama: You won a battle. The war continues. We will never surrender.
“...kissing this guy’s behind.”
A LEGENDARY SMOOCH!
We’re doomed.
“I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but I’d give my right hand to have Hillary as President right now.”
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I agree with you.
Hillary is a criminal but she doesn't think she's a goddess. Obama thinks he's The Chosen One, and beware all those who dare oppose him.
I can't get over this--"I won"! He sounds like someone just elected class president.
The details of this “stimulus” bill need to be shouted from the mountain tops. This is going to be nothing but one GIANT trillion dollar barrel of pork.
Not one republican should vote for this, and they should VOCALLY oppose it. Remember how much hell the democrats raised over Bush’s tax cuts? This spending is going to dwarf those tax cuts in size and should be fiercely resisted.
so the idea of checks & balances is foreign to him?
>>Hillary is a criminal but she doesn’t think she’s a goddess. Obama thinks he’s The Chosen One, and beware all those who dare oppose him.<<
Hitlery and Bill are criminals but they appreciate the hand that feeds them and will preserve that hands ability to continue doing so. Obama wants to cut off the hand.
He’s moving fast.
At this pace you should all be packing your things and readying to board the trains to the “internment camps” for non-Democrats.
And once they marginalize the Republicans, which is inevitable, the battle will be between Dems and the communists—guess who wins that one...
There was something about Hillary doing shots in Pennsylvania during the “bitter clinger” scandal that warmed my cold cold heart, and I thought to myself “you know? She isn’t Obama!”
I’d actually feel a lot safer with Hillary in the White House right now, I know, sounds crazy, but we know Hillary, we know NOTHING about Obama, except for the fact that he is a total fraud
I saw pictures of her in a pub or bar with a shot glass.
But we can’t ever forget that they are all our enemies.
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