OBAMA'S AFRAID OF RUSH
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| Mon, 01-26-2009 - 12:48pm |
Obama: Quit Listening to Rush Limbaugh if You Want to Get Things Done
Obama warned Republicans to quit listening to Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats, during a White House discussion on his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
WASHINGTON -- President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.
"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done," he told top GOP leaders, whom he had invited to the White House to discuss his nearly $1 trillion stimulus package.
One White House official confirmed the comment but said he was simply trying to make a larger point about bipartisan efforts.
"There are big things that unify Republicans and Democrats," the official said. "We shouldn't let partisan politics derail what are very important things that need to get done."
That wasn't Obama's only jab at Republicans today.
While discussing the stimulus package with top lawmakers in the White House's Roosevelt Room, President Obama shot down a critic with a simple message.
"I won," he said, according to aides who were briefed on the meeting. "I will trump you on that."
The response was to the objection by Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to the president's proposal to increase benefits for low-income workers who don't owe federal income taxes.

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Yes, he was definitely marginalizing
I'm sure that you don't just make stuff up and post it. I was just confused about what quote was being discussed. I don't like to comment on something until I fully understand what the poster is referring to in the first place. I was under the impression that the quote you were referring to was the one from Obama in the first post which stated ,"You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,". But then you claimed that from what you heard "it wasn't a tongue in cheek comment" and I was wondering what comment you had heard because the only one I was aware of was the quote that was already given in the first post. Basically, I thought you had heard another comment made by Obama that I was not aware of. Btw, I did find a transcript of the interview you were referring to and John Boehner did say that the comment was "casual" and did not say
You like the other poster, apparently, don't understand what the uproar was about.
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It is a simple case of Democrats, who were not fired from the beginning as they should have been, playing politics against the opposing party. Nothing more. This is a good lesson for future presidents.
I don't know how you can make that claim. Do you have a transcript of what he said? From the reports I've heard on this, he wasn't talking about spin.
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)
Thanks for finding that transcript. Here's the comment Boehner made. Just what I said, that Obama's comment was interpreted that Republicans were taking instruction from Rush and not thinking for themselves (I added that but it's a logical extension and goes with the tone I thought I heard from Boehner). I'm not sure that Boehner characterizing this as a casual remark changes what Obama was saying. To be sure, if I was seating in that meeting, I would have not taking the comment, casual or not, well. More than marginalizing Rush, it also says to those conservative congressmen/women that Obama isn't so sure they are thinking for themselves. Kind of rude and presumptive.
"JB:Well, I don’t want to characterize what went on in the meeting at the White House. That’s not really appropriate. But it was just, it was really just a casual remark as though some of us were taking instructions from Rush. Now I like Rush, but he’s a talk show host, and I’m in the policy-making business. And the President already heard what we had to say, and it didn’t come from Rush Limbaugh. It came from us. And I’m the one that outlined the kind of wasteful spending in here that I don’t think will achieve the objective."
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/talkradio/transcripts/Transcript.aspx?ContentGuid=8570668f-7906-4578-82b8-75d3675fb81d
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." --Eric Hoffer
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"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." -- W.E.B. DuBois (1922)
I think your summation of the scandal may be mistaken.
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