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.
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The DUmbass wasn’t even in the Senate long enough to know how it operates, but that’s understandable since he wasn’t in this country long enough as a child to learn that there are FIFTY states and not 57.
Creepy evil POS....
Yeah, well, welcome to reality, Barry. Though I usually despise this kind of bureaucratic crap, I have to admit that, overall, it saves us from some really bad ideas. Usually. In theory.
Perhaps the Kenyan doesn’t know the story of George Washington referring to the Senate as the saucer he pours his coffee into to let it cool for awhile. They probably didn’t teach that at the madrassa.
He misses Larry Sinclair?
Cheers!
He misses Larry Sinclair?
Cheers!
Not even gonna say what I am thinking.
But if he DOES have lung cancer, he needs Obamacare, not top of the line crap.
President Obama...STFU!!!!
OMG that is so bizarrely funny!
He dares to talk about competition??
And we are going to lose out to other countries (China, Cuba, etc.) because our political system is no good!
What a nightmare Obama is.
Since when did Ed Schultz become a FReeper?
He MUST lose.
Liver Lips is such a freakin’ empty suit....The Manchurian Candidate, for sure.
This from a man that says “don’t think we’re not keeping score brother”
If I was a Senator (especially a Dem) I would verbally bitch slap that snot nosed punk back to Jakarta. Someone needs to remind that arrogant POS he is not the their boss.
I am puzzled as to why all 60 Dems in the Senate have relinquished power to the Oval Office. Byrd was the only one who got it, but he's too old to do anything but show up in a wheelchair.
You know there are members in both Houses of Congress who are sweating bullets as we enter the election year. I don't know what is going on in the cloak rooms between Harry, Nancy and their bitches, but sooner or later, it's going to blow.
This from a man that says “don’t think we’re not keeping score brother”
Um, check out COMMUNIST China.....The Chicoms LOVE big corporations as longm as they and their family members run them!
I heard it from one of my long time friends today (one who has unfortunately turned into a betwetting lib) - the reason why Detroit is a mess is because of the auto makers, and a “big part of the solution” is to have government health care - like Canada and Mexico.
These guys live in a complete fantasy world. We can’t let these children run things anymore.
It struck me — he is really nutso.
This from our NAZI Kenyan. The kid is a terd.
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