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Republican leaders’ ‘meeting’ with Obama: Seven minutes
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, February 27, 2013 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 02/28/2013 5:06:42 AM PST by Hoodat

Never let it be said that President Obama has failed to spend time with Republican leaders in seeking an alternative to automatic budget cuts that are due to hit most federal departments Friday. On Wednesday, for example, the president gave GOP lawmakers as much as seven minutes, a rare face-to-face encounter that the White House described as a “meeting.”

The White House’s characterization of this momentary huddle at the Capitol as a meeting illuminates Mr. Obama’s strategy in dealing with Republicans on the budget cuts and other fiscal deadlines.

With speeches and other staged events, the president has tried to build public pressure for his agenda of tax increases coupled with spending cuts.

But he has made little time for negotiating directly with lawmakers who oppose his plans.

“It is a sincere conviction among Republicans that the president’s negotiating posture isn’t about getting a deal done, it’s a zero-sum political game where his aim is to destroy the Republican [House] majority in the next election,” said Steve Schmidt, a Republican strategist who served in 2008 as Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign manager. “It’s certainly not an effective strategy for a leader in search of a deal.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 113th; budget; emptysuit; federalspending; obama; sequester
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The money quote:

Said Republican strategist Whit Ayres, “The president is really good at campaigning and really bad at governing. So he’s doing what he’s good at.
1 posted on 02/28/2013 5:06:48 AM PST by Hoodat
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To: Hoodat
Obama: "You guys give up yet"?
'Pubs: "Hell, no"
Obama: "Get the hell out of my office."

Jus' dreamin'...

2 posted on 02/28/2013 5:09:50 AM PST by grobdriver (Vivere liberi aut mori)
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To: grobdriver

I am sure that the ‘pubs have worn their kneepads to the meeting. They will stand like a tower of Jello.


3 posted on 02/28/2013 5:13:46 AM PST by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: Hoodat
Only Obama could get away with dedicating more time to Tiger Woods than to working towards a solution to the Federal financial nightmare he helped create.
4 posted on 02/28/2013 5:14:29 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Hoodat

I am surprised he gave them seven whole minutes....after all the point was he is now able to say “ I meet with the republicans”

His lapdog Media will report he tried....but they did not want to capitulate.... Err....I mean compromise..


5 posted on 02/28/2013 5:17:59 AM PST by JZoback
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To: Hoodat

I am surprised he gave them seven whole minutes....after all the point was he is now able to say “ I meet with the republicans”

His lapdog Media will report he tried....but they did not want to capitulate.... Err....I mean compromise..


6 posted on 02/28/2013 5:17:59 AM PST by JZoback
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To: Hoodat

Does it matter for how long the ‘meeting’ lasted?

Obama is NOT OPEN to anything other than what he wanted.

The End.


7 posted on 02/28/2013 5:19:12 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: Hoodat

Mr. Obama’s motorcade arrived at the Capitol at 10:57 a.m. for the dedication of a statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks. The ceremony began at 11:04 a.m. Somewhere in between, White House spokesman Jay Carney said, the president held a “brief meeting” on the budget cuts with Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, and Mr. McConnell.

Pressed by reporters about the substance of a meeting that lasted less time than the average person’s morning shower, Mr. Carney conceded that the president mainly discussed his “anticipation” of a Friday meeting at the White House with congressional leaders.


8 posted on 02/28/2013 5:19:20 AM PST by airborne (MY HEROES DON'T WEAR CAPES. MY HEROES WEAR DOG TAGS ! ! !)
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To: Hoodat

The Repubs are right. Obama got his tax increase....guess he forgot. Now he wants more??


9 posted on 02/28/2013 5:21:15 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Hoodat

Seven Minutes? SEVEN MINUTES?
WOW!!!
That is exactly eight minutes longer than I would meet with that bunch of Surrender Monkeys.


10 posted on 02/28/2013 5:23:12 AM PST by Tupelo (Hunkered down & loading up)
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To: Hoodat

I am not sure if Obama channels Stalin or Hitler. Either way, living was tough. I guess I will decide when I see if the masses are dying from shots to the back of the head, or being tossed into a furnace.


11 posted on 02/28/2013 5:23:53 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: liberalh8ter

What financial nightmare? The 1% cut in the baseline increase of spending this year? You’ve fallen into the Obama trap if you think this is a financial nightmare.


12 posted on 02/28/2013 5:24:23 AM PST by wolfman23601
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To: wolfman23601
The financial nightmare to which I refer is “baseline budgeting”.
13 posted on 02/28/2013 5:28:14 AM PST by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: Hoodat

The Republicans have everything to win, and nothing to lose if they stand firm on the sequester.

Yeah, Yeah, I know... They will cave any minute.


14 posted on 02/28/2013 5:28:14 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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To: Hoodat
“Republican leaders’ ‘meeting’ with Obama: Seven minutes”, that's long enough for them to fold so why waste anymore time?
15 posted on 02/28/2013 5:34:08 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Hoodat
“Republican leaders’ ‘meeting’ with Obama: Seven minutes”, that's long enough for them to fold so why waste anymore time?
16 posted on 02/28/2013 5:34:25 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Hoodat

What exactly is the point of Obummer running around the country scaremongering? I mean, the reps and congcritters are already elected. Shouldn’t it be THEM that he has to twist arms? It’s as they say, he loves to campaign, and I don’t even consider it campaigning, it’s pure and simple propagandizing.


17 posted on 02/28/2013 5:38:16 AM PST by Thorliveshere (Tais deau sá taghdedaul!)
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To: Hoodat

GeeOpie — Shouldn’t the quotes be around ‘leaders’?

R.I.N.O.s


18 posted on 02/28/2013 5:40:35 AM PST by TArcher
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To: Hoodat

Looks like the anointed One is a big fan of Agile/Scrum. But this would mean the meetings would be daily.


19 posted on 02/28/2013 5:43:27 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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The seven minute meeting will never be publicized as being that brief. The whole purpose of the camapigner in chief was to create a staged meeting to use as anoter “photo op moment”. How may of the liberal media will report it for that purpose and brief duration? Crickets.........


20 posted on 02/28/2013 5:59:09 AM PST by DaveA37
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