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Obama: Just-Say-No is Over
The New York Daily News' Mouth of the Potomac ^ | Michael McAuliff

Posted on 11/14/2010 2:18:03 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Ahead of his meeting with the Republican leaders this week, President Obama today warned them the era of just-say-no is over.

The GOP opposed nearly every initiative Obama and the Democrats offered — and sometimes passed — over the last two years.

The were so successful at casting those policies as job-killing bailouts that were deadly to the economy that voters on election day still believed — by a two-to-one margin — that the economy was shrinking, bailouts were ongoing and their taxes were going up — even though the opposite was true.

With the GOP gaining greater say in the Senate and taking over the House, Obama thinks they’ll have to play the game differently over the next two years.

“Campaigning is different than governing,” Obama told reporters as he flew home from his 10-day Asia trip this afternoon, suggesting Republicans will walk back some of their more adamant rhetoric in coming days as they take stock of reality.

“They are flush with victory after a campaign of just saying no,” Obama said. “But I’m sure the American people did not vote for more gridlock.”

Still, on the Sunday shows today members of the GOP did not sound in a very compromising mood yet — unless the President wants to start on their side of the issues.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a favorite of the Tea Party crowd, signaled he would not accept a Democratic compromise of extending some of the Bush-era tax cuts — those for the middle class.

But he said he’d be willing to talk if the President is at least offering a temporary extension of all tax cuts, including for the wealthy.

“I think if he can work on our side of the ledger, I think we might can work together,” DeMint said on Fox News Sunday.


TOPICS: Issues; Parties; U.S. Congress; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2010; congress; obama; taxes
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s only *now* that the GOP has the power to say “No” at all.


21 posted on 11/14/2010 2:33:57 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: COBOL2Java

“...I’m sure the American people did not vote for more gridlock.”

Right, and when the election comes around we will vote in a president FOR the USA and people will not have to vote against the communist takeover, otherwise known as ‘no gridlock’.


22 posted on 11/14/2010 2:35:01 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: COBOL2Java

won on “no”
don’t want gridlock

It only become a gridlock if OBama say no


23 posted on 11/14/2010 2:35:07 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep! Hardened in wrongdoing or wickedness.

Obdurate is a very appropriate word for _resident Zero.


24 posted on 11/14/2010 2:35:20 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: A CA Guy
I can't believe McCain managed to get reelected. I wonder what drugs are in Arizona water? They are voting as bad as people do here in CA IMO.

Well, don't forget, there were also outside forces. Palin and most all of the Republican "leadership" got behind him and pushed hard.

25 posted on 11/14/2010 2:42:45 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Here it is in black and white: The pinkos went green 'cause they're too yellow to admit they're red.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Campaigning is different than governing

Someone must have fed him that line because HE certainly doesn't behave as if he recognizes any difference!

26 posted on 11/14/2010 2:44:01 PM PST by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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To: COBOL2Java
But I’m sure the American people did not vote for more gridlock.

Dems controlled the executive branch and both houses of Congress! What gridlock is he describing and to whom does he ascribe said gridlock?

27 posted on 11/14/2010 2:45:57 PM PST by relictele (Me lumen vos umbra regit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

his days of warning republicans are over . . .


28 posted on 11/14/2010 2:46:05 PM PST by smonk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks. Great word.

Other words applicable to His Obamaness,.....fake, fraud, phony, traitor, Manchurian POTUS, pathetic sissy butt boy,coward, POS, putz, schmuck, liar,........the list is endless.


29 posted on 11/14/2010 2:46:17 PM PST by garyhope (It's World War IV, rig ht here, right now, courtesy of Islam and illegal immigration.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ahead of his meeting with the Republican leaders this week, President Obama today warned them the era of just-say-no is over. The GOP opposed nearly every initiative Obama and the Democrats offered — and sometimes passed — over the last two years.

This from the man who just had his political head handed to him and claimed that he wads "anxious" to work with Republicans. Expect more of the same-old, same-old!!

30 posted on 11/14/2010 2:48:19 PM PST by DustyMoment (Go green - recycle Congress in 2012!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Holy crap! Was this article written by the DNC?


31 posted on 11/14/2010 2:48:42 PM PST by winner3000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Holy crap! Was this article written by the DNC?


32 posted on 11/14/2010 2:48:51 PM PST by winner3000
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“...the era of just-say-no is over”

Welcome to the “hell no” era.


33 posted on 11/14/2010 2:49:17 PM PST by Gil4 (Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Why don't DeMint and other GOP spokespeeples add ONE freakin' sentence to their talking points on extending the tax cuts to the middle class AND WEALTHY!!!!

Just this: "Who creates the employment in this country, the welfare class or the 'wealthy'?"

Just so all the dummies get it.

Leni

34 posted on 11/14/2010 2:54:49 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: smonk

What right does he have to “warn” them about anything? He was out of line.


35 posted on 11/14/2010 3:10:17 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: COBOL2Java

He’s right, the American people didn’t vote for gridlock, They voted for REVERSE, then turn right, hard.


36 posted on 11/14/2010 3:12:03 PM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

Somewhat. The biggest problem with Arizona is the open primaries.


37 posted on 11/14/2010 3:12:26 PM PST by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You are right... the era of HELL NO has arrived... kenyan... you bastard of a whore and a drunk commie.

LLS

38 posted on 11/14/2010 3:12:40 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: Gil4

excellent- bumper sticker material!


39 posted on 11/14/2010 3:13:16 PM PST by silverleaf (All that is necessary for evil to succeed, is that good men do nothing)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Screw you Obama, NO, the newest old thing for lunch.


40 posted on 11/14/2010 3:14:08 PM PST by dforest
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