OBAMA'S AFRAID OF RUSH

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Registered: 01-09-2009
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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Registered: 01-07-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 9:32pm

The important part of your post: " I feel he wants them on the hook because I know the stimulus won't work.

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Registered: 01-07-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 9:36pm
That point would have had far more validity had we not just ended a republican presidency that outspent previous administrations, not to mention increased the size of government.
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Registered: 01-04-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 9:45pm
I don't believe the bill will pass as it is today.

 

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Registered: 11-23-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 10:12pm

Do your figures for the out spending include the war? I'm curious where all the numbers come from.

You are right though, the Republicans were shameful in their spending spree while in control of Congress. It's a shame that it would take a change in leadership for them to get their heads out of where ever they had them, but I welcome some fiscal conservativeness in Congress. For me, that's more important than why right now. Although I do think conservatives need to take a long hard look at themselves when they scream "debt" And remember what it means to be fiscally conservative and why it's important to model it.

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Registered: 01-07-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 10:29pm
Thank you, because it does seem a bit disingenuous to be crying debt now after the fox has already been in the hen house for quite some time!
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Registered: 01-05-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 10:30pm

"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.


 

 

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Registered: 01-05-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 10:32pm

OOps sorry.

 

 

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-07-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 10:47pm

Of course it is easy to believe people would interpret it that way.

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Registered: 11-07-2008
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 11:08pm

>>I find it rather unnerving that Obama would be telling people, whether the general public, or Congressmen, not to listen to someone because they have opposing views.<<


Except, of course, that isn't what he did.

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Registered: 01-21-2009
Tue, 01-27-2009 - 11:18pm

<<saying quit listening to rush if you want to get things done is telling them not to listen to rush, semantics is fun however>>


As I already stated, he did not say to not listen to Rush. Nor did he say "Quit listening to Rush if you want to get things done."

Chrissy

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