Posted on 01/14/2016 3:20:17 PM PST by jazusamo
Elaborating on his failure to heal the partisan divide in Washington, President Obama said Thursday his presidency got off to a bad start in 2009 because some Republican lawmakers were more concerned about their re-election than they were in helping him to save the nation from economic ruin.
Speaking at a town-hall-style event in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the president said he has "done soul-searching" in office about what he could have done differently to work more effectively with Republicans in Congress.
"I think part of it had to do with when I came in, we had a real emergency and we had to act quickly," he said of the recession in 2009 that prompted a government bailout of the auto industry and passage of an $800-billion-plus economic "stimulus" package that cleared Congress.
The problem, Mr. Obama said, was that "people in Washington sometimes weren't always as focused on getting the job done as they were, 'How's this going to position us for future elections'?"
No Republicans voted for the stimulus in the House, and just three voted for it in the Senate -- one of whom, then-Sen. Arlen Specter, quickly fled the GOP.
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Wasn’t this about the time the jock sniffer in chief got his lip busted playing basketball.
Obama really is delusional...
Whose Presidency?
Yep, he’s absolutely delusional.
Exactly right.
What did his highness want that he did not receive?
Liar!
So there would be no flak...preceding his re-election??
This guy is such a lying shilling pussy....
Go away, you anti-American buffoon.
“Selfishly?” Zer0, We have noticed something. It has always been “All about meeeeee!” with you. Now you are reverting to your childhood self, complete with pouts, fits and crying. Folks, it time for a diaper change. Meeee Meeee is about to have a temper tantrum.
LIAR-
I seem to recall....
O’bummer NEVER EVER EVEN MET!!!!!
with ANY of the Repubs the first year!!
The Dims had the house senate (super majority !)
Why waste his time!!
He needed to destroy health care - American military- and allow illegals in!!
I thought our DyckTater was frying around the world pissing everyone off at us.
A Supermax would be too easy. Just throw him out in the general population. The whining would stop and he would learn what bum hurt really means.
His voice is sounding very whiney and a little high pitched. He has never not taken a podium in 7 years without railing on Republicans here in the USA as well as overseas. Is he just daft?
Obama looked up ‘bipartisan’ in the dictionary as being from Chicago they never had to worry about the term before. He read down to where the definition mentioned ‘give and take’, closed the book and said “Wonderful!” They will give and I will take - it is the Chicago way after all!
He always does this after his big SOTU speech. He flies around to a few towns, gives speeches, then forgets all about that and starts playing golf. Holiday weekend coming up, wonder where he and the Mooch are going?
Poor, poor oslama, it’s been so unfair of those nasty republicans to expect him to represent the people of the nation he was elected president of instead of denigrating those people to others around the world while kowtowing to foreign leaders and giving his true support to muslims, that is of course what little time he has while not on the golf course, fundraising or taking frequent expensive vacations on the taxpayers dime. Poor little mulato, life is so hard!
Oballma wants to change the subject quick and fast so people will not catch on to his tactics. The MSM will carry his towel and drink his Koolaid.
The totally ignorant First Megalomaniac actually said that?
Seriously?!!?
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