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Senate jam: DeMint also vows to block Obama speech
POLITICO ^ | August 31, 2011 | JONATHAN ALLEN

Posted on 08/31/2011 5:31:33 PM PDT by maggief

Sen. Jim DeMint vowed Wednesday to try to block President Barack Obama from addressing a joint session of Congress on the same day as a Republican presidential debate next week.

Obama could learn something from the GOP, DeMint reasoned, in adding his voice — and his vote — to a growing chorus of Republican objections.

“The president should pick another night. I’m planning to watch the Republican primary debate … and the president should watch it, too,”

The iconic South Carolina conservative said. “If he has a jobs proposal, put it in writing, give us a cost estimate, and send it over. I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter. If he insists on playing politics by picking the night of the GOP debate, I will object to the session.”

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; demint; election2012; gopdebate; jobsspeech; jointsession; obama; obamajobsplan; obamajobsspeech; palin; presidentialdebate; totus
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To: maggief; All

Obama is getting worked over pretty good right now on Twitter #Obama.

One guy looks to be part black like Obama says...

Obama’s words are a lot like our currency - they’re worthless, abundant, and backed by nothing...

Thanks to #davebrock


21 posted on 08/31/2011 5:52:24 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: maggief

BRAVO DEMINT!!

This was a puerile and divisive stunt on Obama’s part!


22 posted on 08/31/2011 5:52:46 PM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: maggief

Why does it have to be an address to the joint session of Congress anyway? Why doesn’t he just give the speech from the WH?


23 posted on 08/31/2011 5:53:55 PM PDT by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: Red_Devil 232

My new tagline, and such a powerful statement from DeMint.


24 posted on 08/31/2011 5:53:59 PM PDT by Carling (DeMint to Obama: I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter.)
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To: ohioWfan

“Jim DeMint has always had a spine.........as have many others in the Republican party.”

Man, will you get blasted for that line...even though it’s true.


25 posted on 08/31/2011 5:54:12 PM PDT by BobL (PLEASE READ: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2657811/posts)
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To: maggief

Bachmann evidently stated: Obama shows ‘insecurity’ with debate move - Kay Henderson reports from Iowa.

What a hoot...


26 posted on 08/31/2011 5:55:11 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (McCain 5 yrs Left/1 year right "BAD!" - Republicans 3 yrs Right 1 year Left to elect RINOs. "Good?")
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To: Rudder

Actually Demint can block the a joint session speech. It takes a joint resolution by congress to allow the president to speak in congress. Obama is not a king and it’s time the congress make that clear to the little punk Chicago thug.


27 posted on 08/31/2011 5:55:15 PM PDT by penelopesire (Let The Congressional Hearings Begin!)
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To: Rudder
Correct

Barry can give his latest reading of crapola from the Oval Office during the GOP debate and give the same speech he'd give to a joint session of Congress. Hopefully, the GOP has learned from the treatment Barry gave Paul Ryan, and if you want to go back, Justice Alito and the USSC, in these staged "bi-partisan" Obama political events/joint sessions. At this point, if the GOP gives this lame duck President anything, then they really are the party of stupid.

28 posted on 08/31/2011 5:58:09 PM PDT by Carling (DeMint to Obama: I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter.)
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To: maggief

Ummm... Mr 0bama....see the wind stopped....and we do not have electricity....to power TOTUS.

Good luck with your address!


29 posted on 08/31/2011 5:59:18 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: FrdmLvr
The joint session would be for the “I'm in charge here” optics. Unless this idiot starts WWIII, the GOP shouldn't give him a joint session outside of the 2012 State of the Union until we all vote him out of office.
30 posted on 08/31/2011 5:59:44 PM PDT by Carling (DeMint to Obama: I want to read the bill, not listen to talking points off a TelePrompter.)
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To: onyx; 506Lake; alrea; Amanda King; americanophile; Babsig; be-baw; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
Thanks for the ping onyx.

Jim DeMint: serving up platefulls of awesomesauce.

  
Jim
DeMint
Ping!

Want on or off this ping list? GET WITH THE PROGRAM! Just FReepmail me.

Follow Sen. DeMint on Twitter.

31 posted on 08/31/2011 6:01:27 PM PDT by upchuck (Rerun: Think you know hardship? Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: Biggirl
At last the GOP is begining to get a SPINE.

Coincides quite nicely with Bambi's approval nosedive...


32 posted on 08/31/2011 6:03:16 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: maggief
I know better then to love any politician but I have a soft spot for him.

DeMint says Obama should pay attention to his would-be opponents. “He will hear job creation ideas that don’t involve more wasteful stimulus spending,” DeMint said. “And he’ll hear ideas that don’t include job-destroying tax hikes."

So much for using the Senate chamber. LOL

Whenever he does give this speech after all this fuss he's just going to look worse then usual. It'll offer nothing useful or new and his mystique is gone.

33 posted on 08/31/2011 6:03:58 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (“I will work every day to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your lives as I can.”- Perr)
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To: maggief

ho-ly-cow

Demint and Boehner both found a set!?


34 posted on 08/31/2011 6:04:23 PM PDT by fnord (Republicans are just the right-wing of the left-wing of American politics)
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To: upchuck

Sign me up... Jim DeMint for President!!!!!!!


35 posted on 08/31/2011 6:04:59 PM PDT by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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To: maggief

Ummm... Mr 0bama....see the wind stopped....and we do not have electricity....to power TOTUS.

Good luck with your address!


36 posted on 08/31/2011 6:05:21 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: maggief

Has Obama responded yet? He’s going to say the GOP is putting party ahead of the country. We’ll see if America is dumb enough to fall for it.


37 posted on 08/31/2011 6:07:23 PM PDT by Huck (I don't believe there is just one God--humanity seems like the work of a committee to me.)
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To: Biggirl
The commie in chief and his bright red comrades running the "Democrat" party need to start killing and arresting the opposition if they have hope to have any chance of carrying their marxist agenda forward.

Apparently HUSSEINS CPUSA and COMINTERN masters didn't think the plan through .

The American officer corps would rather attack DC than carry out any more operations in support of our enemies foreign and domestic.

The vacationer in chief and his muslim brood will be kicked out on their crooked communist asses soon enough, the reds haven't figured out a way to stop election day.

38 posted on 08/31/2011 6:11:28 PM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: maggief

Nah, just let ‘em both go on. If the debate outrates the speech, we’ll call it a referendum on the Presidency, if not, we’ll change the subject. Gotta learn to start playing these things with the Dummy’s rules.


39 posted on 08/31/2011 6:12:38 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Huck

all the news snippets and reports that I’ve been hearing are stating that Obama is going to make a joint session speech next wens nite...as if it’s written in stone.

I heard it on our FOX affiliate hear in MO and on the ABC radio news at the top of each hour.


40 posted on 08/31/2011 6:12:38 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (Palin/Perry, Perry/Palin, Palin or Perry, Perry or Palin. 2012 Any questions?)
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