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This is both puzzling and upsetting. Does President Obama really believe this? The silver lining, I guess, is that the Republican leadership may refuse to pass the Catfood Commission plan just to spite him:
President Obama promises in a major new interview that Americans weary of partisan gridlock that Washington will be much more compromise-friendly if he wins a second term in the White House.
In an interview with the Associated Press published Saturday, Obama says Republicans hell-bent on shutting down his agenda will be more willing to play ball if he’s re-elected.
Dear sweet Jesus. What is wrong with this man? How many times does he have to try to kick the football before he understands what Lucy is doing?
He said two changes — the facts that “the American people will have voted,” and that Republicans will no longer need to be focused on beating him — could lead to better conditions for deal-making.If Republicans are willing, Obama said, “I’m prepared to make a whole range of compromises” that could even rankle his own party. But he did not get specific.
He doesn’t have to. We already know he wants to cut Medicare and Social Security.
Obama painted a picture of the GOP that’s very different from the party in control of the House today. On the campaign trail, Obama has made Republican intransigence a central theme,especially after House Budget Committee leader Paul Ryan joined Mitt Romney’s ticket.
The president does not cast his opponents as the type of Republicans who are willing to compromise. On issues from abortion to taxes, Obama told the AP Romney has taken “extreme positions” that voters must assume will be part of his legislative agenda. The interview was conducted Thursday, one day before Romney made a birth certificate joke on the campaign trail, a move Obama’s campaign said shows Romney has “embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them.”
Obama told the AP Romney owns the positions he’s espoused, even if he personally doesn’t agree with them.“I can’t speak to Gov. Romney’s motivations,” he said. “What I can say is that he has signed up for positions, extreme positions, that are very consistent with positions that a number of House Republicans have taken. And whether he actually believes in those or not, I have no doubt that he would carry forward some of the things that he’s talked about.”
There is major cognitive dissonance here. He sees Romney (and thus, the Republican party) as extreme — but not if he’s reelected. So he doesn’t think the Republicans will be posturing for the midterms? Oy. This is really disturbing stuff.
“that could even rankle his own party.” That was a cute addition, but not by Obama. So the Zionists are furious at Obama and the Democratic Party. Their rage was triggered by the Democratc Party platform. It seems that the Zionists wanted the following language included in the platform: “Jerusalem is and will remain the capital of Israel” and “Isreal is the most important ally of the United States in the Middle East.” Neither of those statements is true and to include them in the party platform would have been ludicrous. So the Democrats did not. Now the Zionists are pissed. Too bad, so sad.
No, he doesn’t believe this. This is the counter to the Republican narrative that government will only get anything done if people vote out those pesky Democrats.
Feel the massive beltway momentum building for the Grand Bargain while us rubes are distracted with billions of dollars of campaign drivel. Apparently, it’s so bad that Democrats will talk about abortion and gays to avoid talking about the economy, jobs, war, civil liberties, and their willingness to cut SS and Medicare/Medicaid.
Susie: All he’s ever wanted to do was to execute an onside kick. Welfare reform was the last second term legacy builder for a Democratic President. Lets see, what Great Society program could we throw overboard next?
If any real people get access to Obama for quetioning (on the record), they damn well better try to pin him down on Medicre and SocSec.
And, as Susie’s post above shows, Bill Clinton told the AR delegation that the solution is to pass Simpson-Bowles recommendations.
Oh, NO, Mr. Bill!!!!!
Say it isn’t so!!!!
Has Obama made some kind of backroom deal with the Republicans????
Obama does that crap, Dems go along with him — the D Party will be dead meat. It will join the Whigs.
They’re doing it. They deserve to join the Whigs.
They’re not leading. They’re not helping. And they’re not (yet) getting out of the way.
The faster they pulverize themselves, the better.
Best would be before this election, but that’s not happening.
Well the Democrats caved in to the Zionists today. Talk about growing a spine. The Zionists wanted “Jerusalem is the undivided capital of Israel” language in the platform and in it went today. Less than 24 hours after they raised a stink. Isn’t it curious that with only 2% of the population of the United States the Jews have such extraordinary clout? Hell blacks make up 20% of the population and they can’t even get a little respect. Something is very wrong with the United States of America and it ain’t Obama.
Convention leaders said the language was added at the express request of Obama.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-09-05/democrats-change-platform-to-add-god-jerusalem
Obama did get an angry call from Alan Dershowitz who is on his advisory board concerning all things Israel. He also got calls from Arutz Sheva the ex-president of AIPAC and a one time Obama aide. As well as AIPAC’s current president Michael Kassen. All of these men threatened Obama with ” very unpleasent consequences” if the Jerusalem language wasn’t restored to the platform. If a loaded gun were aimed at my head I might rethink my position as well. How about you? But it was obvious from the voice vote held on the convention floor that the delegates did not want the “undevided Jerusalem” language in the platform because they know it prevents a Peace deal.