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 senatorsall 58 Democrats and two independentsvoted 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.
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This low-life bastard pos is always frustrated at something. In a google search of “Obama frustrated” - 2,920,000 hits!
“Were 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.
Hey Berry, Talk to the HAND you looser.
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.
I’ve had enough of this kenyan moron and PC posts...
FU** OBAMA.
Any delay now is but a moment compared to the delay created so the thing would get past the CBO.
Mr. “President”: G.F.Y. With all due respect, of course.....
Crybaby.
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.
This Obama character is a different breed of cat.....a gangster is as close as I can get to describing him.
I’d call him the devil.
FUBO you deranged narcissist.
Slick, creepy.
This retard will go down in history as the biggest asshat to ever sit in the Presidents chair.
egggszackly, he’s a gangsta
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.
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