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Obama: Foes put party ahead of country
Washington Times ^ | 8/16/11 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 08/16/2011 5:16:06 PM PDT by Nachum

PEOSTA, Iowa — A day after clashing with a tea party activist, President Obama Tuesday told crowds here that it was "a faction in Congress" that was to blame for blocking economic progress. At a rural jobs forum, Mr. Obama ticked off a list of pending bills that he said would create jobs. "The only thing that's preventing us from passing the bills I just mentioned is the refusal of a faction in Congress to put country ahead of party," the president said in a thinly veiled reference to House Republicans backed by the tea party. "That has to stop."

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To: molson209

DumBO thinks that Congress has low ratings because they would not compromise, when, it is low because they did compromise.


21 posted on 08/16/2011 8:37:21 PM PDT by depressed in 06 (I'll follow an eloquent Allen West out of hell.)
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To: Nachum

“The only thing that’s preventing us from passing the bills I just mentioned is the refusal of a faction in Congress to put country ahead of party,”

Gee Zero,

Nice of you to correctly identify the failing of your own party.

Most encouraging!


22 posted on 08/17/2011 5:16:15 AM PDT by roaddog727 (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: combat_boots

“These guys are DC insiders and are scared sh!tless of cowboy boots.”

That may be true but I do agree with his statement about Zero’s hypocrisy.


23 posted on 08/17/2011 11:29:00 AM PDT by Magic Fingers
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