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Obama's 2012 slogan: 'Can't work with others'
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 6, 2012 | Debra J. Saunders

Posted on 01/07/2012 8:26:14 AM PST by opentalk

President Obama is running for re-election with an unusual pitch: He can't work with others. He only gets along with yes-men.

"I refuse to take no for an answer," Obama said Wednesday of his decision to make a "recess" appointment that placed Richard Cordray as head of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Constitution, of course, gives the president the power to make appointments during Senate recesses. Technically, however, the Senate was in session.

The imperial president bypassed Senate rules and years of precedent, because he wouldn't or couldn't cut a deal.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackward; cantworkwithothers; election2012; obamaoneterm
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1 posted on 01/07/2012 8:26:15 AM PST by opentalk
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To: opentalk

I recall “Don’t call my bluff” during the budget “debate” (i.e. Kabuki Theater) in summer of 2010 as well.


2 posted on 01/07/2012 8:28:04 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: opentalk

Constitution? What Constitution? I demand, I want. It’s all about me!


3 posted on 01/07/2012 8:30:41 AM PST by mardi59
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To: mardi59

He acts more like Hugo Chavez every day.


4 posted on 01/07/2012 8:34:22 AM PST by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: opentalk

I graduated from Harvard Law School and I taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago School of Law, but I'm so damn dumb that I've never heard of the concept of checks and balances, and how they're supposed to work.

5 posted on 01/07/2012 8:35:29 AM PST by Zakeet (If Obama had half a brain, his butt would be lopsided)
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To: opentalk

The foreign policy of the Obama regime is to take down secular dictators to replace
them with Islamic extremists.


6 posted on 01/07/2012 8:35:29 AM PST by ASA Vet (Natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. De Vattel)
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To: opentalk
Better yet: “doesn’t work or play well with others!”
7 posted on 01/07/2012 8:36:49 AM PST by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: opentalk

He shouldn’t have to! He’s the President, for heaven’s sake! /sarc


8 posted on 01/07/2012 8:36:56 AM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: opentalk

John Woo, John Yoo.....they’re all the same, right?


9 posted on 01/07/2012 8:37:35 AM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Zakeet

“When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.” — Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Charles Hammond [1821]


10 posted on 01/07/2012 8:38:38 AM PST by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: opentalk
The smart candidate will counter with this argument every time the Kenyan Marxist brings up the do-nothing Congress and pulls his buck-passing song and dance.

By November we will know who was smartest.

11 posted on 01/07/2012 8:39:44 AM PST by truthkeeper (Vote Against Barack Obama in 2012! (That's my story and I'm sticking to it.))
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To: donhunt

It’s in his dna. Dictators hang together.


12 posted on 01/07/2012 8:39:46 AM PST by mardi59
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To: opentalk

The American Tin pot dictator slash community organizer smack down in 2012. I want a picture of the mr and mrs arrogance when the winner is announced on election eve and it aint them.


13 posted on 01/07/2012 8:42:08 AM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: opentalk
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14 posted on 01/07/2012 8:48:06 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: opentalk

“My way or else!”


15 posted on 01/07/2012 8:48:24 AM PST by reg45 (I'm not angry that Lincoln freed the slaves. I'm angry that Franklin Roosevelt bought them back.)
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To: mardi59

Well? Let’s start hanging them.


16 posted on 01/07/2012 8:52:00 AM PST by donhunt (Certified and proud "Son of a Bitch".)
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To: opentalk

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau = Extortion


17 posted on 01/07/2012 9:18:40 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Zakeet

LOL, and very true!!!

The liberals frequently tell us that Obama was a constitutional law professor. This statement is supposed to impress us ignorant conservatives that this president has unique insights and knowledge about the constitution.

So exactly how knowledgeable is he about the constitution, when he ignores one of the checks and balances, with these recent appointments? For all of his alleged constitutional knowledge, he doesn’t understand the fact that there are limits on presidential powers.

Or perhaps it’s not that he doesn’t understand, I should say he has decided to do whatever the **** he wants, and dare anybody to try to stop him. If nobody tries to stop him, he has just expanded his powers, which sets him up for further power grabs down the road.


18 posted on 01/07/2012 9:19:00 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: opentalk

Awwwww...come on, be fair.
He was forced into this position by the Republicans, who
“won’t work with him”-— this has been the mantra since nearly
the beginning—”we must come together,and under me we finally will” (, i.e.-—you have to acknowledge me as the one and only Dear Leader),”all they do is obstruct,they’re the Party of NO,etc.” (they REFUSE to roll over and submit to my plans). See everything Obama and his Dems do and everything they say about Republicans as a relentless example of what Freud called projection.They remove the burdening pressure of unreasonableness , intractability, authoritarianism, off themselves and conveniently place it on the shoulders of Republicans/ it works!!
The not-so-hidden message behind all this,of course, is that they don’t want or expect ANY OPPOSITION. THEIR PROBLEM is that we don’t have outright dictators in this country and we ALWAYS WILL HAVE opposition. Obama may be the first President who was taught all along the way not to EXPECT opposition, so you can hardly blame him for being pissed, in the disgusting, petulant little-boy way he always is/


19 posted on 01/07/2012 9:36:27 AM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Dilbert San Diego

As all here on FR know he understands what he is doing and has been successful at it. Until he is stopped he will keep on going & will become the tin pot dictator that he aspires to be. Unfortunately no-one in congress has the will to stop him because they either agree with him or are afraid to be called the R (racist)word. In the meantime our precious country goes to the dogs. In the meantime the other R(revolution)word gains more meaning.


20 posted on 01/07/2012 9:38:37 AM PST by certrtwngnut (It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Josef Stalin))
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