Posted on 08/23/2013 9:23:57 PM PDT by yoe
In an exclusive interview with CNNs Chris Cuomo on Friday, President Barack Obama said that the upcoming fight over the continuation of a resolution which will fund the government does not have to be a fight at all. He said that enough Republicans in Congress agree that seeking to defund the Affordable Care Act is a bad idea, but they are afraid of angering their base or of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
Congress doesnt have a whole lot of core responsibilities, Obama said. One core responsibility is passing a budget, which they have not done yet. The other core responsibility that theyve got is to pay the bills that theyve already accrued.
Obama said that, if Congress does their jobs on those issues, then they can tackle big, structural changes like what he is proposing to the nations higher education system.
How much of the lack of action in Washington do you put on yourself in terms of blame? Cuomo asked.
Ultimately the buck stops with me, Obama replied. I get frustrated, and Ive said before and I continue to say Im willing to do whatever it takes to get Congress and Republicans in Congress in particular to think less about politics and party and think more about whats good for the country.
He said that the notion that Republicans would shut down the government over the ACA is not good for the nation. He said the GOP sees this as their last gasp.
Ive made this argument to my Republican friends privately, and, by the way, sometimes they say to me privately, I agree with you, but Im worried about a primary from, you know, somebody in the tea party back in my district or, Im worried about what Rush Limbaugh is going to say about me on radio.
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Obama says congress is supposed to pass a budget? Man, this guy is a piece of work. Actually he, and all his lovers, are pieces of something else.
If it’s true about his friends worrying about being defeated by a tea party candidate, he should name names then he could help get rid of the spineless bastards. Plus, he doesn’t think Tea Party candidates can win so what is he worried about? Oh, well, just another lie his lovers will blindly accept.
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Thats one of Marxist Saul Alinsky’s most effective rules.
Rush must be in his head
The whole world understands that Obama is a joke. The whole world except for the Americans, thanks to the mainstream media. Maybe someday America will catch on.
Whenever President Bush made public statements about the Congress, the Democrats would respond immediately, deflecting blame back on Bush. Apparently it stuck.
Obama gets up there and LIES, and LIES, and LIES and we hear nothing from the “Loyal Opposition”, BECAUSE NONE EXISTS.
Who do we have on OUR SIDE, Senator Cruz, a few Congressmen and Sarah Palin? That’s a small team trying to take down the Communist Democrat Party.
I am sad to say I see no overwhelming dissent coming from Politicians or the People as a whole.
THEY LIVE, and we’re the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.
Obama is a pyromaniac in a field of straw men.
FUBO
FUCONgress
FUUSSC
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Limbaugh is loving this! Remember how the enemy kept insisting he was irrelevant? They won’t be making that claim anymore.
It’s not Obama. And I despise him.
It is congress. No need for civil war. Just vote them out. All of them. Sometimes the good guys gave to go too. But if you want change, that is where to start.
It seems we blame everything on the head guy. It’s Congress folks. Obama doesn’t pass a single piece of legislation.
Finally, I agree with Obama! Congress DOES have two jobs!
We are a badly divided country.
Sounds like Rush is living rent free in Obama’s head.
Obama makes Carter look like Winston Churchill.
I am so sick and tired of existing under the RULE of uncivilized negros and their thug supporters.
I suppose that once BO gets his ‘million man’ army he can bus them to Rushs private residence just like he did with the Wall St GM bond holders that held out for the rule of law.
The thing is negros have always viewed the law as an hostile entity unless if specifically favors them over and above everyone else. Pandered negros have been conditioned that they should be treated as Americas Royalty.
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