Posted on 09/16/2015 11:41:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
Urging business leaders to lobby Republican lawmakers for higher spending, President Obama said Wednesday that partisan gridlock in Washington is a bigger threat to the U.S. than Chinese cyberattacks or Russian military aggression.
“Our problem is not that China’s going to out-negotiate us, or that [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is sort of out-strategizing us,” Mr. Obama said. “Has anybody taken a look at the Russian economy lately? That’s not our problem. Our problem’s us, typically. We engage in self-inflicted wounds, like this potential government shutdown. It’s unnecessary.”
The president spoke to the Business Roundtable in Washington as the Oct. 1 deadline approaches without a federal budget for fiscal 2016. Mr. Obama said Democrats are ready to negotiate, “but it should be over legitimate questions of spending and revenue, not unrelated ideological issues.”
Some conservatives want to block federal funding for Planned Parenthood after a controversy over the agency allegedly selling fetal tissue for research. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, has said there won’t be a government shutdown over that issue or any other.
“Today some are suggesting the government should be shut down because they don’t like Planned Parenthood,” Mr. Obama told the business leaders. “That’s not good sense. The notion that we’d play ‘chicken’ with an $18 trillion economy and global markets that are already skittish, all because of an issue around a woman’s health provider that receives less than 20 cents out of every $1,000...
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In other news:
GOPe: Conservatives a bigger problem than 0bama or Clinton.
Progressives always see other Americans who disagree with them as stupid and evil and they desire to punish all who oppose their sick agenda. Nothing new here. The usual evil.
He was, is and always will be, clueless.
Wow...I had to check that I wasn’t reading the Onion or some such thing.
Did you notice the Russian tanks in Syria you dolt? How great was the German economy in the run up to WWII?
“self-inflicted wounds” = Obama
Actually, the government ought to come to a screeching halt exactly because of the Butchers of Planned Parenthood! Further, we should get down on our knees and repent over the atrocities of carving up live human babies.
Amen to that.
That should be clear to anyone who is not engaged in disinformation or newspeak.
Gimmie more, more money, more regulations, more ego!
Gimme less, less opposition, less scrutiny, less criticism!
he’s not only an enemy agent,
he’s actually insane
I agree with the imposter. The GOP is the greatest problem facing America today. Nothing else gets fixed until we get an opposition party.
Putin and China can do what they want and Obama could care less.
To Obamanation, The GOP is thorn. He has no problem with Issad or the moods because they are allies. They are doing all they can to ruin the USA. McConnell is neutral.
What a uniter this guy is!
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