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W.H. attacks worry moderate Dems
.politico.com ^ | October 23, 2009 | politico.com

Posted on 10/23/2009 8:58:34 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

A White House effort to undermine conservative critics is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill — and not just from Republicans.

“It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a moderate Democrat from western Pennsylvania. “I think it’s beneath the White House to get into a tit for tat with news organizations.”

Altmire was talking about the Obama administration’s efforts to undercut Fox News. But he said his remarks applied just the same to White House efforts to marginalize the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business lobby targeted for its opposition to climate change legislation.

“There’s no reason to gratuitously piss off all those companies,” added another Democrat, Rep. Jim Moran of Virginia. “The Chamber isn’t an opponent.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; chambercommerce; democrats; dems; fnc; foxnews; moderate; obama; waronfox; whattack
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1 posted on 10/23/2009 8:58:36 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

They worry because they see themselves as the target of conservative and moderate voters in their district. I pity them not.


2 posted on 10/23/2009 9:00:12 AM PDT by DarthVader (Liberalism is the politics of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
"The Chamber isn't an opponent."

Yes, Congressman Moron, it is. To the radical communist, ANYONE who isn't with dear leader at that particular moment is an enemy, not just an opponent, and your ilk will find that out if he ever gets total power.

3 posted on 10/23/2009 9:00:16 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
I love this worry about the compromising of a totally whorish lot. The suffering of ‘blue-dog democrats’ has gotten old. The White House will call and they will dance.
The White House will call and the will run around with their knickers on their heads. That's what Democrats do/
4 posted on 10/23/2009 9:03:42 AM PDT by Hans
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Eventually, it will come time to make an offer to the moderate Dems: how would you like to cross the aisle en masse?

Of course, the hard-core conservatives will not like this proposal, but it would reduce the Obama administration to impotence. We can worry about what to do next after the next election.

Many of them are more conservative than some of the Republicans we’ve got now, and overall it would be pretty much a wash - except the chairs of all the committees would shift over.


5 posted on 10/23/2009 9:03:59 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Obama administration will be a lame duck by the end of the year to many mistakes to fast and no answers to problems and democrats know 2010 elections will be a blood bath for them.


6 posted on 10/23/2009 9:04:01 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: LS
Well said. Everyone sees it but Barry Soetoro's narcissist administration.

Quote of the week IMO-from the article...

"Boehner’s No. 2, Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) complained that the nation’s problems are growing while the White House “bickers with a cable news network.”

7 posted on 10/23/2009 9:04:57 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: Hans

If you doubt me, read up on the Church Committee in 1975. Made my hair go white.


8 posted on 10/23/2009 9:05:51 AM PDT by Hans
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To: proxy_user

The only thing that could make them cross the isle is free food.


9 posted on 10/23/2009 9:07:26 AM PDT by Hans
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To: Vaduz

The ending of the article about Obama and the Chamber of Commerce is a must read. I still can’t believe politico is calling Obama out on this.


10 posted on 10/23/2009 9:08:31 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Gee! Who would have thunk it?...You put the most radical whack leftist you can find in the White House and he goes bizerk trying to pass as much of his socialist agenda as fast as he can....What the hell did everyone think he was going to do?....


11 posted on 10/23/2009 9:16:59 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: proxy_user

AMEN!!! I’ve posted this numerous times.

The GOP should make an offer to the moderate Dems: join us and dump Pelsoi NOW!!! The committee chair business could be set up as a type of power-sharing arrangement.

We can worry about the smaller details after the next election, SAVING OUR COUNTRY COMES FIRST!!!


12 posted on 10/23/2009 9:22:48 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

—A senior House Democrat, speaking on the condition of anonymity while questioning the wisdom of the White House strategy, said: “I have no problem with [going after] Rush at all. I don’t have much of a problem with Fox. —

Afraid to let them use his name! Big talker, as long as it’s confidential!


13 posted on 10/23/2009 9:23:01 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Obama’s BS has ran it’s limit even politico has opened it’s eyes.


14 posted on 10/23/2009 9:26:10 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: GOPsterinMA

SAVING OUR COUNTRY COMES FIRST!!!

And that’s exactly what it’s coming to. This socialist has put this country so far in debt already that our country may not survive!!!


15 posted on 10/23/2009 9:31:41 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: GOPsterinMA

OBAMA IS A DAMN TRAIN WRECK!!!


16 posted on 10/23/2009 9:32:57 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

A not-thread-related request for help - how can I increase the monthly allotment I give to FR?


17 posted on 10/23/2009 9:33:26 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (I loathe the ground he slithers on!)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

No question about that!!!


18 posted on 10/23/2009 9:34:35 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA ("Henceforth, you shall be known as...'Nobel Obama'".)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

The list of unpresidential acts by Barry Soetoro just keeps growing.

Late Night Shows

Begging for the Olympics

Calling out private individuals (Rush)

Attacking FOX

Barry Can’t Help Himself...he thinks he is god and he IS DAMNING AMERICA, just like his immam told him to.


19 posted on 10/23/2009 10:19:10 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: DarthVader
(OBAMA'S WAR AGAINST THE PRIVATE SECTOR). obama defiantly is engaged in a war against the private sector. He is a paranoid who views Main Stream America more of a threat than any dictator or communist country. He is systematically destroying the country's economic infrastructure.

It is too bad the GOP in the US congress is afraid of their own shadow. The so called moderates of the GOP are responsible for the downfall of the Republican party. The people of this country are sloppily figuring out the what the left wants for this country will destroy it as the economic and military superpower in once was.

The democrats feel they must pass a health care bill. To them even a terrible bill is better than no bill when NO health care bill is better than a poor one. The people of this country did not want a total overhaul of the health care system. Adding illegal aliens to the system will bring about the demise of this country at even a faster pace. Obama says illegal aliens will not be covered under this bill. He does not tell the whole truth. He does not say that he will not grant them amnesty. He will add them to the health care system by making granting them amnesty and making the legal.

Big government will destroy this country, reducing it to socialist russia model. Obama is on the course to unilaterally disarm the US both militarily and economically.

20 posted on 10/23/2009 10:20:36 AM PDT by FAIRNBALANCED101
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