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Obama: Republicans privately 'agree' with me
CNN ^ | Aug 23, 2013 | Dan Merica and Bryan Koenig

Posted on 08/23/2013 10:25:09 AM PDT by Innovative

President Barack Obama argued some Republicans secretly side with him on wanting to avoid a government shutdown, but they're afraid they may face backlash from the conservative right.

"Sometimes they say to me privately, 'I agree with you, but I'm worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the Tea Party back in my district,' or, 'I'm worried about what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about me on the radio,'" Obama said in an exclusive interview with CNN "New Day" anchor Chris Cuomo.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: obama; obamalies; rush; rushlimbaugh
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To: Red Badger
If they agree with you, then they are not Republicans..........

Unfortunately, they are. It's the ones who DISAGREE who need to walk out of the Repubican party.

Starting with a big movement for all conservative Republican voters to UNregister as Republicans and register instead as Independents or Unenrolled. That would put the fear of God in a whole bunch of RINOs.

21 posted on 08/23/2013 10:43:28 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: Innovative

http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/


22 posted on 08/23/2013 10:44:12 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: Innovative

Oh, I suspect that Obama probably is telling the truth here, for once.


23 posted on 08/23/2013 10:44:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: onedoug

Obama is so far to the left, that even many Dems don’t agree with him, much less Republiclans.

But that doesn’t stop him from pursuing his agenda of turning this nation into one totally controlled by the government in every respect — as companies stop providing healthcare benefits, it will be provided by the government.

UPS Removes Health Benefits

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/107401/ups-removes-health-benefits?q=UPS


24 posted on 08/23/2013 10:44:36 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: 1rudeboy
I think it was Sen. "Dirty" Reid(NV-rat)

25 posted on 08/23/2013 10:44:57 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Secret Agent Man

pretty much...love the tag. ;-)


26 posted on 08/23/2013 10:47:26 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income & tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Red Badger
If they agree with you, then they are not Republicans..........

Being a "Republican" just means you are a member of a particular organziation that is chiefly interested in the acquisition of greater political power. It claims to hold a few principles in order to gain a base of support for their attempts to achieve greater political power. If greater power can be achieved by another set of principles, they will have a change of opinion.

If you want to see how the Republocrats work together to seal their monopoly of power, look at the voting system of Oklahoma.

There are many individual Republicans who are trully dedicated to the people (see Ted Cruz). The Republican Party has little to nothing to do with their individual qualities of leadership. Look at how the Republican Party treats Cruz and Lt. Col. Allen West.

27 posted on 08/23/2013 10:50:33 AM PDT by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: INVAR; All

I agree.

Sure looks like 2016 is going to be a shoo-in for the GOP-E Candidate for POTUS!

I’ll bet that even seriously “conservative “ leaders such as ‘Romneycare’ Romney and ‘Wacko Bird’ McCain would agree with the above prediction!

Such a strong grasp of America’s political Reality! Wow!


28 posted on 08/23/2013 10:52:20 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: onedoug
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

-George Orwell, Animal Farm

29 posted on 08/23/2013 10:57:21 AM PDT by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: Innovative

It’s not like a lot of liberals don’t agree with conservatives on many things. They have guns or guards while they try to take your guns away. They praise public education while they send their children to private schools, some with armed guards. They want Obamacare for you but a waiver from it for themselves. They want windmills and alternative sources of power, but the windmills better not be viewable from their East Coast compounds.


30 posted on 08/23/2013 10:59:52 AM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Innovative

I say PHONY President, yes.. wow the real deal:-()


31 posted on 08/23/2013 11:08:20 AM PDT by geo40xyz (BE PREPARED: Geo The Engineer so smart, he doesn't need a TelePrompter to speak. Unlike the AH:-))
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To: Innovative

"Republicans Privately Agree With Me -- OR ELSE"



32 posted on 08/23/2013 11:11:07 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: Innovative

Maybe Obama’s right about a lot of GOP politicians agreeing with him but they work for we the people, and if they don’t vote America’s interests then let’s vote them out in the next primary.


33 posted on 08/23/2013 11:11:45 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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To: Red Badger

Right, AND if they agreed with “O” he’d have it all his own way by now.

Like the man said: ‘If you have to tell people you bad... then, you ain’t’!


34 posted on 08/23/2013 11:14:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms." H. Amiel)
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To: Graewoulf; All

We went full Soviet in the 2012 elections.

Cook County went national.

They waited until GOP/Conservative counties’ votes were in - and in key states needed - Obama comes in with 100% of the vote and ‘wins’ the states needed to “re-elect him’. This after Obama and his media ‘crowned’ Romney as the ‘contender’ 2 years prior.

It’s all to keep an illusion in the minds of the people that they have a ‘choice’ in national elections.

We don’t.

The Ruling Class chooses for us and massages the ‘optics’ so as to continue the illusion we are a free republic.

We aren’t.

We now reside in a post-Constitutional dictatorial single-party tyranny, where the rule of law is whatever the emperor and the politburo says it is.

We’ve seen our last ‘honest’, ‘free’ and ‘open’ elections.

If history is a teacher, then under such an ideology now ruling us - mass misery and death are just around the corner.

The GOP-e thinks they will get to keep their seats at Obama’s table once it all shakes out. They have no idea what they are dealing with.

Or maybe they do - and they are willing to go along with it because like him, they want to ensure the feudal system they prefer is not disturbed.


35 posted on 08/23/2013 11:49:49 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Innovative
When, where and how does Obama converse with these Republicans? Obama barely talks to Democrat congressmen. If he were carrying on a dialog with Republicans it would be big news, to his benefit. You know he's lying whenever his lips move.
36 posted on 08/23/2013 12:02:50 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Innovative

rubio, christie, graham, mccain to name a few RINOS.


37 posted on 08/23/2013 12:04:41 PM PDT by GailA (THOSE WHO DON'T KEEP PROMISES TO THE MILITARY, WON'T KEEP THEM TO U!)
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To: Innovative

Obama has 30-35% approval in Republican districts.


38 posted on 08/23/2013 3:15:24 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Innovative
To the extent there are commies among GOP political elites this might have some truth to it.
Otherwise it's just another tiresome Obama lie.
39 posted on 08/23/2013 4:30:49 PM PDT by Amagi (Buying "Green" means purchasing inferior quality at increased cost.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
When, where and how does Obama converse with these Republicans?

He doesn't.

That's what Boehner and McConnell tell Obama 'privately'.

Which is why I call the GOP leadership our political Judenrats.

Some call them French Republicans; Vichy Republicans etc.

I contend they are worse than surrender monkeys. They are HELPING Obama destroy this country and attack Conservatives. They think they will have a seat at the table of power once the iron fisted MarxoFascist revolution is complete.

And for that, they help the Left herd Conservatives onto boxcars for political oblivion.

And then, one day - it will be for literal oblivion.

40 posted on 08/24/2013 11:49:37 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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