Posted on 02/25/2012 2:08:01 PM PST by Da Bilge Troll
President Obama met with a group of Democratic governors on Friday and discussed plans to work around Congress toward policy goals.
Gov. Jack Markell, the Democratic governor of Delaware and the vice chairman of the National Governors Association, told The Hill that the meeting was “very good” and said many of the governors were responsive to ideas about bypassing Congress.
“There was a sense that none of us should wait, we can’t wait for things to happen in Congress,” Markell said of the meeting. “We’re going to do what we can do [now].”
Obama has positioned himself against Congress as he runs for reelection, arguing lawmakers are failing to solve the country’s problems. “Where Congress won’t act, I will,” he said in October when rolling out a series of executive orders aimed at creating jobs.
Markell said the conversation with Obama did not dwell on Republican opposition to the president’s legislative proposals.
The tone of the meeting was positive, Markell said, and the governors agreed that the Obama administration has been “terrifically responsive” to their state governments.
The Democratic governors discussed the three major job goals from Obama’s State of the Union address: building manufacturing, training workers and increasing American-made energy.
“We had a great conversation very focused, not surprisingly, on jobs,” Markell said, calling jobs the “biggest issue for all of us in the room, no matter where we come from.”
He noted that although they did not discuss the election, the sense in the room was that focusing on jobs is Democrats’ best chance to win in the fall. That is the message the Democratic Party has been sending in full force this season, ranging from Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) to Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who slammed the GOP presidential candidates Friday on CNN for failing to mention jobs in the most recent debate and instead talking about “divisive cultural issues.”
Markell said the discussion with Obama steered clear of the transportation bills that are being fought over in Congress, though “it’s certainly something we as governors feel strongly about.”
The meeting, which lasted about an hour and fifteen minutes, took place in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building and involved more than a dozen Democratic governors and several members of the Obama administration.
Governors present included Govs. Jerry Brown (Calif.), Jay Nixon (Mo.), O’Malley, Christine Gregoire (Wash.), Bev Perdue (N.C.), Peter Shumlin (Vt.), Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii), Deval Patrick (Mass.) and Pat Quinn (Ill.).
The governors are in town for the annual winter meeting of the National Governors Association. Markell, who attended the meeting for the first time as vice chairman of the NGA, also talked up the level of bipartisan cooperation between the governors, which he said contrasted with what has “not been a great level of cooperation between members of Congress.”
“We don’t really care where an idea comes from if it’s a good idea,” he said.
Governors from both parties will meet with the president on Monday.
No, they don’t have the nads.
She has more than one foot out the door while still conspiring? Throw this on her lawsuit pile.
When it comes to Republicans critcizing Obama these days all you can hear are crickets...It’s hard to speak out while hiding in the tall grass, afraid of your shadow.
When it comes to Republicans critcizing Obama these days all you can hear are crickets...It’s hard to speak out while hiding in the tall grass, afraid of your shadow.
Seems like treason to me, but I guess that’s just me.
the Demorat dream is to make Obama a dictator!
But do we have the will and fortitude to do what is necessary? That is the real question, IMO.
THAT is the biggest question of all.
It’s certainly close to that. These uneducated “elites” don’t know much about how and why the Constitution was written and that sovereignty was determined to be OUTSIDE of the government!!!!!!
But do we have the will and fortitude to do what is necessary? That is the real question,...
I honestly don't know for sure, but there are some historical precedents. Only one third of the population of the colonies rebelled against King George. The world knows how that turned out.
Methinks a third of our current population will figure out, either you die on your feet, or live on your knees.
If there is another "Civil War," the next one will make the first one look like a walk in the park on a warm spring day.
May G-d have mercy on our souls.
5.56mm
Executive Orders, and Regulatory Mandates are consistently being used to circumvent Congress, and his placement of Czar's to do his bidding is all about un-elected Socialist bastards doing illegal (un-Constitutional law-making, coupled with Liberal Activist Judges and "Holder's People".)
Knowing he is going to face un-Election in November, they cannot wait to finish up the destruction they've started, so look for more Taxapyer-funded vote-buying with handouts and penalties to "the Rich".
The president has wide legal discretion in the spending of some funds (though not all).
So it’s not treason, it’s just looting.
Dems want every dollar he can toss to them and their cronies.
Only if we all can agree that ignoring the Constitution's limitation of powers IS treason.
Well the imagery of those uber-RATs swinging from the gallows is...interesting.
And why are the Republicans hiding? Are they all crooks? Does Obama have them all blackmailed? I can’t think of any other reason why they are all so silent.
I am hoping that someone is keeping a list of the traitors so we can deal with them one by one in the coming year.
LucyT;neverdem
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Oh yes, by all means, you cabal of worthless gutless anti-Constitutionalists. Keep it up—this hatred of America, this anti-capitalist, pro-caliphate philosophy.
And now Obama has these stupid governors thinking he is their friend. :)
Well, human stupidity and vanity really has no end, does it? These useless idiots are much like the mainstream media: being manipulated like putty for the designs of a fascist.
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