Stephanie
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vote Obama out folks
SNIP:
President Barack Obama talks about Hurricane Sandy in the White House briefing room on Monday. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais~AP
Updated: October 30, 2012 2:18AM
One of President Barack Obamas latest campaign themes is trust that he can be trusted and Republican nominee Mitt Romney cant. Thanks to his own words, we know that Obama can be trusted to put ideology ahead of commonsense economic goals to put people back to work.
In an interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, Obama was asked if he regretted his push to enact health-care overhaul legislation when he had huge Democratic majorities in Congress instead of emphasizing measures to fix the economy. Absolutely not, responded the president.
That must have come as a slap in the face to the 23 million Americans out of work, trapped in part-time jobs or given up looking for work; to the 50 percent of college grads who cant find jobs or labor at doing something below their hard-earned college credentials, and to the 5.5 million unemployed women and the 27.5 million women in poverty, increases of, respectively, 500,000 and 3.6 million over the levels when Obama took office.
Obamas excuse for absolutely not was GOP opposition in Congress. Early in his term, Republicans had just 40 votes in the U.S. Senate, not enough to stop legislation with a filibuster unless they had help from Democratic members. More important, the GOP opposition Obama cited wasnt formidable enough to block his drive to pass Obamacare. In other words, he was willing to take on Republican obstructionism in the name of a long-cherished liberal goal of overhauling the health-care industry but not to combat the unemployment crisis.
Of course, if he had been open to working across the aisle, to accepting conservative fiscal ideas, the president could have picked off some moderate Republican senators for example Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins of Maine, who voted for the $831 billion stimulus package for further economy-bolstering measures. But no, in discussing the stimulus bill with Sen. John McCain, the 2008 defeated GOP nominee, and other Republicans at the White House in early 2009, Obama made clear his view was all that counted when he said, I won the election.
all of it here
Obama erodes the American dream - Chicago Sun-Times
SNIP:
President Barack Obama talks about Hurricane Sandy in the White House briefing room on Monday. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais~AP
Updated: October 30, 2012 2:18AM
One of President Barack Obamas latest campaign themes is trust that he can be trusted and Republican nominee Mitt Romney cant. Thanks to his own words, we know that Obama can be trusted to put ideology ahead of commonsense economic goals to put people back to work.
In an interview with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register, Obama was asked if he regretted his push to enact health-care overhaul legislation when he had huge Democratic majorities in Congress instead of emphasizing measures to fix the economy. Absolutely not, responded the president.
That must have come as a slap in the face to the 23 million Americans out of work, trapped in part-time jobs or given up looking for work; to the 50 percent of college grads who cant find jobs or labor at doing something below their hard-earned college credentials, and to the 5.5 million unemployed women and the 27.5 million women in poverty, increases of, respectively, 500,000 and 3.6 million over the levels when Obama took office.
Obamas excuse for absolutely not was GOP opposition in Congress. Early in his term, Republicans had just 40 votes in the U.S. Senate, not enough to stop legislation with a filibuster unless they had help from Democratic members. More important, the GOP opposition Obama cited wasnt formidable enough to block his drive to pass Obamacare. In other words, he was willing to take on Republican obstructionism in the name of a long-cherished liberal goal of overhauling the health-care industry but not to combat the unemployment crisis.
Of course, if he had been open to working across the aisle, to accepting conservative fiscal ideas, the president could have picked off some moderate Republican senators for example Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins of Maine, who voted for the $831 billion stimulus package for further economy-bolstering measures. But no, in discussing the stimulus bill with Sen. John McCain, the 2008 defeated GOP nominee, and other Republicans at the White House in early 2009, Obama made clear his view was all that counted when he said, I won the election.
all of it here
Obama erodes the American dream - Chicago Sun-Times