Posted on 08/23/2013 6:22:55 AM PDT by markomalley
During President Obama's wide-ranging interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo Friday, the president responded to a question about the "lack of action in Washington" with the claim that when it comes to shutting down the government to kill ObamaCare, his "Republican friends" tell him "privately" that they agree with him but are afraid of Rush Limbaugh and the Tea Party:
Nobody thinks [a shutdown's] good for the middle class. So the question is ultimately, if you are putting the American people first, if you are prioritizing them, then this shouldn't be that difficult. And I've made this argument to my Republican friends privately, and, by the way, 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. And so you got to understand, I'm -- it's really difficult."
Just ten days ago, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said something remarkably similar during a "Morning Joe" discussion about same sex marriage -- that since 2006, "Republican leaders have said one thing in green rooms, another thing on TV and another thing on talk radio.
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Exactly; if Obama is lying or not, the RINO’s SHOULD be afraid. Very, very afraid.
Like the sequester, Obama will close down the government and the Pubbies will get the blame.
This ‘President’ has lied his entire life.
Why should I believe ANYTHING he says??
He must be very afraid of Rush & Sarah, etc.
That is Obamaspeak for "We can't get a handle on how to control these yahoos."
Every politician should fear the populace at all times. The fact that this presser doesn’t understand that is a confirmation that they are not “press” at all.
I WISH RUSH WOULD PLAY MAGIC NEGRO TODAY TO GET UNDER BAMS THIN SKIN!
If they are afraid, they are cowards. But I think they are cowards to admit they are really dimocrats in RINO clothes. Stinking RINOs ARE dimocrats!!!! Plain and simple. They are liberals using the republican name. I think both parties stink.
To this I say, you damn right they’re scared. And they should be scared of the American voters.
Listen to your constituents.
If you could first know where you are and whither you are tending, you could better judge what to do and how to do it.
You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals [1960s psycho, campus spoiled brats and their "Rules For Spoiled Brats" IMO] and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas.
In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.The question today is either the opponents of statism will arrest the further spread of it and place it on course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become permanent.
Have you no tendency to the latter condition?
Let anyone who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination piece of machinery, so to speak compounded of the Republican Party hands-across-the-aisle doctrine and the dreadful actions among statism's chief architects.
Good.
Then all of our hard work is paying off.
The Republican politicians should be afraid of the people that they are supposed to represent.
buttholes like coburn, cochran, snowe, graham, mccain mcconnell and boehner for examples.
LLS
coburn claims he is PERSONAL FRIENDS with obama... mister coburn... you have been outed sir.
LLS
“OBAMA: REPUBLICANS ‘PRIVATELY’ TELL ME THEY’RE AFRAID OF LIMBAUGH, TEA PARTY”
I guess that would be McCain, Christie, Boehner and Rove?
I believe him. He and the Republicrats have something in common. They hate the true meaning of America and those who would give their lives to support it.
It is now clear. There is only Rome. It is Caeser and the Senate against its citizens. The military has been purged, the scribes paid off and the beurocracy to do nothing in place.
BS Obama. Your republican friends are all made of straw like everone else.
I have no doubt much of the GOPe leadership are only pretending
Nobody has proposed shutting down the government. Only Obama and Reid can do that.
Hey, nobama. Most Americans privately tell me you should be in prison.
0bysmal, tell us who these pantywaists are so that we can kick them to the curb.
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