Posted on 11/07/2014 4:52:12 PM PST by servo1969
Obama met with Republican leaders today at the White House for a “bipartisan lunch.”
This was his first meeting with Republican leaders after Democrats were shellacked in the midterm elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HxyrML3Wkww
Obama lashed out at Republicans when the cameras were turned off.
The AP reported:
Republicans attending the postelection lunch at Obama’s invitation said they asked him for more time to work on legislation, but the president said his patience was running out. He reiterated his intent to act on his own by the end of the year if they don’t approve legislation to ease deportations before then and send it to him to sign.
The Republicans’ approach, three days after they resoundingly won control of the Senate in midterm elections, “seemed to fall on deaf ears,” Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said in a telephone interview. “The president instead of being contrite or saying in effect to America, ‘I hear you,’ as a result of the referendum on his policies that drove this last election, he seems unmoved and even defiant.”
“I don’t know why he would want to sabotage his last two years as president by doing something this provocative,” said Cornyn…
…The meeting was tense at times, according to a senior House Republican aide. The aide was not authorized to describe the back-and-forth publicly by name and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, about to lose his grip on the upper chamber, barely said a word. The aide said at one point as House Speaker John Boehner was making an argument on immigration, Obama responded that his patience was running out and Vice President Joe Biden interrupted to ask how long Republicans needed. Obama angrily cut Biden off, the aide said.
DEFIANT IN DEFEAT: Obama tells GOP: MY mandate is bigger than yours http://t.co/OCPbN5j4ZV #tcot pic.twitter.com/J8xejzLK9S
— slone (@slone) November 8, 2014
The president is going full Alinsky. The GOP better grow a pair.
As I’ve stated in the past, and I mean stated as fact “the man (Obama) is a punk”.
I agree with rushs approach clearly the key to Obama is to force him to act and get on the record as acting.
Obama has spent his entire political career voting presence on contraversal bills because his real opinion was unacceptably radical. Now its time to force him on record for everything.
We can destroy much of the democratic machine this way. Force them to alienate every part of their own base. As they have skillfully attempted to do using their idiot puplets john and Mitch.
The best part is if we craft the bills right they might even be forced to cave and we get real progress back to liberty.
Good one. Captures his delusions perfectly.
How t win Friends and Influence People!!!! NOT!!! he ONLY knows how to be nice to Black THUGS and COMMUNISTS!!!
I can’t believe how awkward they all look.
Walk out
Don’t dtand for bs
That would require assertiveness. It’s doubtful that the “leadership” can muster it.
Start the impeachment ball rolling and get rid of the nacisist bastard. He is long over due for a real head spinning and there is no time like the present. Go for the throat.
Wonder if some of the Dems are starting to think... Geezz is this Apocalypse Now playing out here?
I wonder how many Dems at that meeting realize they may be indictment, soon??
McConnel needs to tell him that if he dares do this its total war and he will lose.
No bills except republican, no compromises. no nothing.
It is time he understood he is not a king.
Congress should insist that deportations be increased.
His patience is running out? He doesn’t get it that he has to compromise and practice political give and take. Biden gets it even if Zippy doesn’t.
It will be a red letter day here at FR.
O’Bastard - Elections matter.
Republicans can’t do anything by year’s end without Reid, who has blocked more than 350 pieces of legislation from the House, including budgets.
So is mine.
Isn’t this why we have 3 branches of government? Send him a bill from the congress and senate. If he doesn’t sign it put it through again and override him.
Have I forgotten something?
They shouldn’t we know who this man is by now. Obama is at heart a shorted signed sick, little punk with no respect for anyone but himself.
The Good news is now that we finally have the ability to force him on record we can uses this against him by forcing him to express his true views on every matter alienating the people from him and his party. Making his successor unpalatable,
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