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Obama vents frustration at Senate delays
Breitbart (AP) ^ | December 23, 2009

Posted on 12/23/2009 6:59:09 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed frustration with the way the Senate does business, saying the use of delaying tactics there harms the nation's ability to "deal with big problems in a very competitive world."

"Other countries are going to start running circles around us," Obama said in a White House interview with PBS. "We're going to have to return to some sense that governance is more important than politics inside the Senate."

Obama's critique of his former Senate colleagues came just as his allies there were on the cusp of giving him what he wants: passage of a Senate health care bill.

The bare-minimum bloc of 60 senators—all 58 Democrats and two independents—voted to end a GOP filibuster and move toward final passage Thursday.

Obama said the use of that vote-stalling tactic, which requires 60 votes to cut off debate, has been imposed in an "unheard of" routine fashion. He said it's problematic regardless of which party controls the White House and Congress, but conceded that, as president, he doesn't have much power to do anything about it.

As for the health care bill, the version the Senate is expected to pass must still be reconciled with a House-passed measure.

Obama pledged to take a hands-on role in reconciling the two.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; angrydems; bhohealthcare; healthcare; obama; obamacare; reid
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To: Cheap_Hessian

This low-life bastard pos is always frustrated at something. In a google search of “Obama frustrated” - 2,920,000 hits!


21 posted on 12/23/2009 7:16:29 PM PST by balls (Sarah, get off your facebook and do something!)
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To: Typical_Whitey

“We’re going to have to return to some sense that governance is more important than politics inside the Senate.”:

It might also be nice to realize that the citizenry comes before the governance, while we’re at it. Yeah, us. The little people with pitchforks and torches outside the gates letting you know we’re going to break the gates down and throw you out of office if you go forward with the crap you’re proposing.

The ones who you are threatening to rob by force via your beurocracy. Yeah, those schlubs.


22 posted on 12/23/2009 7:16:32 PM PST by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Hey Berry, Talk to the HAND you looser.


23 posted on 12/23/2009 7:18:41 PM PST by Track9 (I'd rather be ruled by the first 100 names in the phonebook)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Everytime this SOB talks anymore, I just want to slap him. I hate his BS rhetoric. Bill Clinton is a class act next to Obama.


24 posted on 12/23/2009 7:19:39 PM PST by Always Right
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To: exit82
This filthy POS Klingon wants the Senate to simply be a rubber stamp for his communist ideology. Doesn't he know that Senate deliberations are part of governance. He is complaining that 24 days to debate a bill that will transform our country forever is taking too long. How I despise this Muslim trogladyte.
25 posted on 12/23/2009 7:19:47 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Cheap_Hessian

I’ve had enough of this kenyan moron and PC posts...

FU** OBAMA.


26 posted on 12/23/2009 7:20:25 PM PST by max americana (i)
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To: toddausauras

27 posted on 12/23/2009 7:20:27 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Shut the hell up, Barry.
Nothing except taxes happens for four years. FOUR YEARS, PUTZ.

Any delay now is but a moment compared to the delay created so the thing would get past the CBO.

28 posted on 12/23/2009 7:20:57 PM PST by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Mr. “President”: G.F.Y. With all due respect, of course.....


29 posted on 12/23/2009 7:23:57 PM PST by clintonh8r (Oath Keeper and Manhattan Declaration signer)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Crybaby.


31 posted on 12/23/2009 7:24:31 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Socialism is the plundering of the productive by the unaccountable)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

The Dems forgot jumpin’ Jeffords and the 24/7 media talk of the threat of the Republicans “going nuclear” in the past. Of course, every day is a new day, new rules, and new definitions for the Dems - as long as it’s their day, their rules, their definitions.


32 posted on 12/23/2009 7:25:15 PM PST by hocndoc (http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.))
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Even Bill Clinton was (eventually) able to STFU when the polls were against him.

This Obama character is a different breed of cat.....a gangster is as close as I can get to describing him.

33 posted on 12/23/2009 7:25:43 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: elkfersupper

I’d call him the devil.


34 posted on 12/23/2009 7:28:03 PM PST by 3boysdad (Governors unite under the 10th!)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

FUBO you deranged narcissist.


35 posted on 12/23/2009 7:29:44 PM PST by mojitojoe (“Medicine is the keystone of the arch of socialism.” - Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Slick, creepy.


36 posted on 12/23/2009 7:30:46 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

This retard will go down in history as the biggest asshat to ever sit in the Presidents chair.


37 posted on 12/23/2009 7:31:37 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: elkfersupper

egggszackly, he’s a gangsta


38 posted on 12/23/2009 7:33:06 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Psycho_Bunny
This retard will go down in history as the biggest asshat to ever sit in the Presidents chair. There isn't enough time left in history for this to be acknowleged. Time is ticking in terms of weeks and months now FReepers, not years. We need to wake up NOW! Implore your Governors to take a stand... NOW.
39 posted on 12/23/2009 7:37:05 PM PST by 3boysdad (Governors unite under the 10th!)
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To: Cheap_Hessian; LucyT; Beckwith; Fred Nerks
"Other countries are going to start running circles around us," Obama said in a White House interview with PBS. "We're going to have to return to some sense that governance is more important than politics inside the Senate." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

THe rudiments of fascism flourish. Thats his idea of bipartisanship. He asked for it by having Hairy and Nancifer freeze Republicans out of the whole legislative process, man boy toy brought it all on himself, and now tries to blame others?

Buahahahahahahaahaa! Not qualified for office. It shows.

Obama knows zilch about how the constitution and our legislative conventions work.So he opts for fascism.


40 posted on 12/23/2009 7:40:14 PM PST by Candor7 ((The effective weapons Against Fascism are ridicule, derision , truth (.Member NRA))
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