Obama: I Won – Don’t Listen To Limbaugh
At first we were tempted to just let these items pass.
But they really do demonstrate the hollowness of the promises from Mr. Obama about setting a “new tone” of “post-partisan” “unity.”
First there is this from the Wall Street Journal:
Obama to GOP: ‘I Won’
January 23, 2009
Jonathan Weisman reports on the White House.
The top congressional leaders from both parties gathered at the White House for a working discussion over the shape and size of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. The meeting was designed to promote bipartisanship.
But Obama showed that in an ideological debate, he’s not averse to using a jab.
Challenged by one Republican senator over the contents of the package, the new president, according to participants, replied: “I won.”
The statement was prompted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona , who challenged the president and the Democratic leaders over the balance between the package’s spending and tax cuts, bringing up the traditional Republican notion that a tax credit for people who do not earn enough to pay income taxes is not a tax cut but a government check.
Obama noted that such workers pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, property taxes and sales taxes. The issue was widely debated during the presidential campaign, when Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, challenged Obama’s tax plan as “welfare.”
With those two words — “I won” — the Democratic president let the Republicans know that debate has been put to rest Nov. 4.
Democratic and Republican aides confirmed the exchange. A White House spokesman said he wasn’t immediately aware of the exchange…
[O]ther Democrats echoed the sentiment. As he left the White House, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina was asked about Republican complaints that Democrats aren’t listening to what their GOP colleagues have to say. “We’re responding to the American people,” he said. “The American people didn’t listen to them too well during the election.”
Then this from the New York Post:
PREZ ZINGS GOP FOE IN A $TIMULATING TALK
By CHARLES HURT, BUREAU CHIEF
January 23, 2009 — 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." …
How soon before he starts wearing a red shirt like Hugo Chavez?
(Of course he is already wearing it on his heart.)
BARACK OBAMA-YOU ARE AN IDIOT. Okay, I feel better now.
AN interesting take on “the One,” and how soon he might use up his popularity. Mike Volpe at
http://theeprovocateur.blogspo.....ourth.html seems to think O-Who will use up his goodwill..
Point is.. he IS a cocky SOB, and “bipartisanship,” a word I quite frankly loathe.. will not quite be the same as time wears on.
Right now the public would be wise to listen to Limbaugh, Coulter, and Malkin..
Jason, Who else is there to listen to? They are going to get roughed up good, believe me. I can see it now, as time wheres on. The black community is really going to give them a hard time eventually. I mean, in a way it will make nightly news. But they have got to, as Bill O’Rielly would say “Wise people up”. I am concerned greatly about these muslim schools in this country and the martyrdom they teach at birth. I just hope for all there sakes….Ann, Rush, Beck, Malkin, etc. they have the heart muscle to handle the hardship that’s a head for them. Let us pray!
@BL, honestly do you think the black community will ever throw him under the bus? It’s a long and convoluted story but when my husband went into the “Green to Gold” program he went to an Historically Black University through ROTC. One of our good friends (who was always a good friend to my husband while in college and since I married him as been a good friend to me) was telling me just yesterday that the black community will never tire of his silliness. She just left the Army after 10 years as an Officer herself but 22 years (having been born into it) as the daughter of an Enlisted man. Neither her father or herself thought he would make a good CIC but they voted for him anyway and they will again in 2016. I just don’t see him losing his “good will” with that group or with the liberal white guilt group anytime soon.
catie, thanks for that telling story. It’s a grave concern. It’s so easy to play around with every day freedom. They just don’t get it. I wish so much that people like Oprah, Bill Cosby, etc. could just always keep in mind that they have benefited tremendously from capitalism. I can never understand when people do legitimatley earn millions and millions and they want to destroy the very ways that allowed that to happen for them. It’s a mystery to me. But, of course I do agree. He can do whatever and they will never concede or criticize him. It’s dangerous I tell ya.