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Rightward Tilt Leaves Obama With Party Rift
The New York Times ^ | July 30, 2011 | JACKIE CALMES

Posted on 07/31/2011 10:35:14 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

WASHINGTON — However the debt limit showdown ends, one thing is clear: under pressure from Congressional Republicans, President Obama has moved rightward on budget policy, deepening a rift within his party heading into the next election.

Entering a campaign that is shaping up as an epic clash over the parties’ divergent views on the size and role of the federal government, Republicans have changed the terms of the national debate. Mr. Obama, seeking to appeal to the broad swath of independent voters, has adopted the Republicans’ language and in some cases their policies, while signaling a willingness to break with liberals on some issues.

That has some progressive members of Congress and liberal groups arguing that by not fighting for more stimulus spending, Mr. Obama could be left with an economy still producing so few jobs by Election Day that his re-election could be threatened. Besides turning off independents, Mr. Obama risks alienating Democratic voters already disappointed by his escalation of the war in Afghanistan and his failure to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, end the Bush-era tax cuts and enact a government-run health insurance system.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budgetbattles; obama
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama hasn't actually 'moved' anywhere. The fact that he says whatever he thinks is convenient to any given audience isn't a sign he's moving at all, except from podium to podium.

The man doesn't have a plan. He doesn't have the deal-making skills a negotiator or veteran politician would have. His vision is a half eaten plate of warmed over Marxist theory, social justice yearnings, and anti-colonial guilt, smothered in the gravy of narcissistic self-adoration.

So, for the New York Times to think they can detect some kind of drift is absurd. This is no more than watching him push the fork around the plate, and wait for Mom to pour more gravy on it.

21 posted on 07/31/2011 10:53:19 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

Where’s Al Sharpton? He always needs more walking around money and manages to profit handsomely whenever he runs, then has a convenient fire at his campaign HQ just before the FEC audits him.


22 posted on 07/31/2011 10:55:14 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: ken21

Yep....Democrats need to decide whether they want to go with a looser, which I believe they’ve got now, or look for someone they feel can win the election. I think Obama is finished and the country is finally figuring that out. He, along with his people, are going to be stopped from ruining this country.


23 posted on 07/31/2011 10:55:41 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
That has some progressive members of Congress and liberal groups arguing that by not fighting for more stimulus spending, Mr. Obama could be left with an economy still producing so few jobs by Election Day that his re-election could be threatened.

After trillions of dollars Obama has realized that the government can only create government jobs, only the private sector can create real jobs.

24 posted on 07/31/2011 10:58:18 AM PDT by oldbrowser (They're socialists don't call them liberals)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
Am I the only guy who can predict the end of this? Deal will crash and burn and Obama will go on National TV and blame the Republican “Far Right” for the “calamity”. This is sooooo predictable.

The other scenario is that the GOP caves on something and Obozo is the nation's sole SAVIOR - we will see TV and print pictures again with a halo around his head - headlines blaring "Pharaoh Obama saves the Nation from the evils of the Tea Party."

Tea Party must be rounded up and imprisoned, will be run in the NYSlimes headlinesm quoting Crappy Nappy.
25 posted on 07/31/2011 10:58:37 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Siena Dreaming
And that's what they're calling him over at DU..."Capitulator-in-Chief" LOL.

You don't suppose he is changing partys do you? /s

26 posted on 07/31/2011 10:59:38 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Which “rightward tilt” is that? He’s talking about trampling the Fourteenth Amendment right now. I wouldn’t call that a “rightward tilt”.


27 posted on 07/31/2011 11:00:51 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Barry! Compromise this!!!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Just came back from DU (yes I showered afterward) and they all swear he has turned conservative and they will never vote for him again. lol
Even if they do vote for him they won’t work for his reelection.
Obama threw them under the bus.
fricken hilarious


28 posted on 07/31/2011 11:03:03 AM PDT by sheana
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To: FlingWingFlyer

rightward tilt is only viewable by Stalinist


29 posted on 07/31/2011 11:04:45 AM PDT by Rodm
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To: indylindy

Go back! It’s a trick!

They WANT people to think he’s tilted to the right.


30 posted on 07/31/2011 11:13:04 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: Principled

Maybe they’re comparing him to Bush.


31 posted on 07/31/2011 11:18:14 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Hussein is NOT tilting to the right. What a pile of dog dung.


32 posted on 07/31/2011 11:43:43 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“rightward tilt”?? You mean like FDR and Stalin?

What drugs is the NY Times on?


33 posted on 07/31/2011 11:47:34 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: Siena Dreaming
"And that's what they're calling him over at DU..."Capitulator-in-Chief" LOL. "

What the DU Dummies and the other deficit spending addicts don't understand is that Buraq 0bama is doing what he thinks he has to do to get them their next public money spending fix before they start climbing the walls from withdrawal.

34 posted on 07/31/2011 11:56:10 AM PDT by YHAOS (you betcha!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The only idiots who think Obama has been going rightward are outright commies who think Stalin and Mao were of a capitalist pigs.


35 posted on 07/31/2011 11:57:36 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: RightGeek; SierraWasp; NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; Marine_Uncle

Man,...thanks for the Link....some good stuff!!!


36 posted on 07/31/2011 11:58:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Siena Dreaming

See link at #18.


37 posted on 07/31/2011 11:59:30 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Terry Mross

Of corse they do. They have been trying to play this game for a while now. I really don’t think too many people buy it though.


38 posted on 07/31/2011 12:00:15 PM PDT by dforest
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To: indylindy

corse=course


39 posted on 07/31/2011 12:01:07 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The only idiots who think Obama has been going rightward are outright commies who think Stalin and Mao were capitalist pigs.


40 posted on 07/31/2011 12:01:38 PM PDT by driftless2
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