Uh, Barry? Just over HALF of America voted for you. So you can have your way just over half the time, ok?
Posted on 02/05/2009 5:58:13 AM PST by COUNTrecount
President Obama, fresh off his first Washington apology tour, grew combative Wednesday, asserting that America voted for him, not the other guy, and demanding that lawmakers "put aside politics" -- well, Republican lawmakers, anyway.
A day before he headed to a luxury resort to meet behind closed doors with Democrats, the Harvard graduate lectured the less economically astute, ridiculing the Reaganomics Doctrine held dear by Republicans, who prefer tax cuts to new spending to bounce America out of its financial mess.
"Now, in the past few days I've heard criticisms of this plan that echo the very same failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems," the president said at the White House. "I reject that theory, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change."
The statement, the first of its kind in public, was reminiscent of what Mr. Obama said in private just days after taking office. In the White House's Roosevelt Room, he told a Republican senator who opposed an element of the stimulus package that "I won. I will trump you on that."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
ping
This guy hasn’t been tested with a real crisis yet.
And now we can see how well he stands up to a little political pressure.
It’s going to be a LONG four years...
Really? I like her soothing voice even more!
“I got elected with 52% of the vote; the rest of you can go to hell.”
Yeah, because Obama claimed his TAX CUTS would be BIGGER than McCain's.
Rush said that was a lie
Rush was right.
I don’t think he understands why many people voted for him. They really did want a change. We’re at war, the Bush administration did not always keep faith on applying conservative economic principals that he talked about and the media hounded the former president constantly. Because people voted against a man that the media told them was a third Bush administration does not mean that they want to fund the Dem’s decades-long, pent-up spending frustrations to keep them in power while mortgaging their children’s future. Winning in the United States means taking the office of president and using it to negotiate with elected representatives of the people. It does not give give ANY presidential “winner” the right to assume a dictatorial role the way that so many African countries are accustomed to doing.
He’s going to a spa?
So the Metrosexual-in-Chief is going on a man-cation to a spa?!?
FABULOUS!!!!!! /San Francisco accent
maybe he'll stomp his feet and hold his breath until he turns blue
< /eeewwww, bad visual>
“And now we can see how well he stands up to a little political pressure. It’s going to be a LONG four years...”
And he hasn’t even begun to substantively deal with foreign policy issues either. I get the idea the zero has zero multitasking capability.
That too,
So get some chi-com plant to start making up sock monkeys and I bet they sell.
GOD I love capitalism.
Yeah, because Obama claimed his TAX CUTS would be BIGGER than McCain's.
**"A total of which includes some 2-4 million fraudulent votes manufactured by my liberal friends at ACORN..."
Uh, Barry? Just over HALF of America voted for you. So you can have your way just over half the time, ok?
What no honeymoon?
Yeah, and she said she was gonna kick Beyonces a$$
He thinks that We are stupid.
Frome the article:
“A day after banning corporate executives from earning more than $500,000 a year via taxpayer bailouts, Mr. Obama on Thursday will head to a Democratic retreat that has burned through half a million dollars in taxpayer cash for annual retreats at luxury resorts.
While President Clinton’s first trip as president was to Detroit, where he held a town hall meeting with average Americans to talk about how to fix the economy, and President Bush flew to Fort Stewart, Ga., to visit soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division, Mr. Obama’s first trip aboard Air Force One will take him to a luxury resort in Williamsburg.
“Well, I’d — you know, I’d — Williamsburg is — has a lofty place in our country’s history,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said, when asked if there was any special significance to the president’s choice. “I don’t know that there’s any great symbolism in this one in particular,” he added at Wednesday’s briefing off the West Wing.
Mr. Obama will head to Kingsmill Resort and Spa in the historical Virginia city to start a three-day planning session. The resort boasts multiple championship golf courses, a full-service spa and six restaurants, noted the Hill newspaper, which broke the story about the Democratic retreats.
Democrats will ride together to the resort on a chartered Amtrak train at a cost to taxpayers of about $70,000, the Hill reported. Taxpayers will also foot the bill for security helicopters to fly above the train. The caucus will spend thousands: In 2003, for example, they spent $11,200 on food and $6,900 on entertainment, the paper said.”
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