Posted on 02/15/2009 8:20:36 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama plans to travel and campaign more to pressure Republicans in Congress rather than trying to win their loyalty, sources say.
Now that a mammoth, $787 billion economic stimulus bill has been approved virtually without Republican support, White House advisers have determined that Capitol Hill horse-trading with GOP opponents wasn't successful and that Obama should instead tap his immense popularity and public salesmanship skills to push legislation in the future, the Washington publication Politico reported Saturday.
"We've got to get him out of that White House," a unnamed top White House adviser said, listing "some very valuable lessons" learned from the stimulus fight. "He's happier, he's better, he's more effective. The inside game is important, but it's actually not where the success of his presidency is going to come."
Obama plans to use the tactic in upcoming pushes to pass New Deal-style plans to rescue struggling homeowners and rewrite regulations on the financial markets, plus a budget proposal that lays the groundwork for sweeping healthcare reform, Politico said.
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This is priceless! After almost four weeks in office an unnamed top White House adviser is telling us in not so many words that HolyO has no business being in the White House, that’s he’s NOT happy, NOT effective, that he’s going crazy because he literally doesn’t know what he is doing. So they are making a traveling salesman out of him. And so who will be minding the store???
Indeed! WHO will be minding the store?
“We’ve got to get him out of that White House,”
Now that’s a great idea!!
Yes, we need to cut this experiment short in 2010 because 2012 will bring the big money back, and Obama will have a billion to spread around.
“White House advisers have determined that Capitol Hill horse-trading with GOP “
LIARS!
I hate when the press lies like this. There was NO horse trading or any compromise. PELOSI rammed a very liberal bill through the House and got the expected partisan result from her partisan action.
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