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Obama dines with GOP, asks for $600 billion in new taxes
The Daily Caller ^ | 3/7/13 | Neil Munro

Posted on 03/07/2013 10:50:35 AM PST by Nachum

President Barack Obama picked up the tab for a March 6 dinner with 12 Republican senators, winning himself some very cheap publicity for his new legislative strategy of outreach to swing-voting GOP lawmakers.

Senators leaving the event were complimentary about Obama’s statements and responses to their views, despite the deep ideological differences over spending, guns, families and immigration.

The invited Senators were picked by Obama and by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the high-profile Republican senator from South Carolina.

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KEYWORDS: dines; gop; obama; sequesterdinner; taxes
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To: Nachum

RINO bimbos. All Obama has to do is talk nice at them and they swoon. He’ll have is way with them.


21 posted on 03/07/2013 11:06:54 AM PST by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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To: TexasRepublic

It probably came from the white house Public tours fund.


22 posted on 03/07/2013 11:07:32 AM PST by Revel
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To: Nachum
"The invited Senators were picked by Obama and by Sen. Lindsey Graham, the high-profile Republican senator from South Carolina."

So, it was a "Pimps and Whores" Party.

23 posted on 03/07/2013 11:07:43 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: Rocky

More like a $50 billion a plate dinner.


24 posted on 03/07/2013 11:08:44 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: Nachum

***...despite the deep ideological differences over spending, guns, families and immigration.***

Methinks that somehow those ideological ‘differences’ evaporated mighty quickly as the booze started to flow. And those girls brought in afterward were something else!

Sure, it’s good to be king. But being a RINO in obamaland ain’t half bad either...


25 posted on 03/07/2013 11:09:22 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (A return to Jesus and prayer in the schools is the only way.)
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To: Nachum

Obama will without a doubt get a handful of GOP squishes in the Senate to go along - there are always a few who lust for those rare editorials professing newfound respect which will magically appear in the NY Times and the Washington Post. The Senate will pass a huge increase, completely ignoring the constitutional mandate that revenue bills originate in the House. (They take some competely unrelated House bill languishing in the Senate awaiting action, strip it of all it’s provisions and substitute their desired tax, and pass it on the flimsy pretext that they are simply amending a House bill, which the Senate may do. That is how we got ObamaCare, after all.) They will likely get away with it. Obama will be able to count on at least Roberts and probably Kennedy on the SCOTUS performing amazing feats of pretzel-twisting logic to rule that the Senate did not in fact violate the origination clause.

Meanwhile, Ryan and other key players in the House, which under our constitution (remember that silly old thing) is where revenue bills must originate, didn’t get a free dinner on the taxpayer dime with Obama. Classic divide and conquer. And I expect it will work.


26 posted on 03/07/2013 11:10:18 AM PST by Spartan79 (I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
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To: Nachum
calm
27 posted on 03/07/2013 11:13:41 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (RETURN TO MECCA [http://youtu.be/zWQkaDUCJ_Y])
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To: Nachum

28 posted on 03/07/2013 11:14:50 AM PST by Casie (democrats destroy)
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To: Nachum

Encouragingly, those republican leaders are getting smarter. Now they make the boss take them out for dinner before getting f***ed.


29 posted on 03/07/2013 11:16:16 AM PST by ryan71
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To: ExCTCitizen

No better traitor to help you pick out weak Republicans than Lindsey Graham.

And certainly Obama did not pick up the tab, who said that??

Maybe Lindsey is taking Reggie Loves place.


30 posted on 03/07/2013 11:17:16 AM PST by Venturer
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To: TexasRepublic
Obama dines with GOP, asks for $600 billion in new taxes
that's one expensive hot dog / cola / Golf trip?...
Hope They Don't Bite; If they do, primary them!

31 posted on 03/07/2013 11:20:06 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (who'll take tomorrow,$pend it all today;who can take your income,tax it all away..0'Blowfly can :-)
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To: Nachum
"Why not ask for a trillion in new taxes? Two trillion?"

A gazillion quadrillion!

Let's not sell out TOO cheaply.

32 posted on 03/07/2013 11:20:28 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: Da Coyote

33 posted on 03/07/2013 11:21:09 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Nachum

I’ll bet the farm the jackasses capitulate, right there juan mc lame you piece of crap?


34 posted on 03/07/2013 11:21:42 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

To this day, I still have no idea what the heck was going on in that pic.


35 posted on 03/07/2013 11:22:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Da Coyote
"AND FU to ALL the RINOslime that lowered their standards and actually allowed themselves to be in a room with the low IQ quota boy."

I wonder if any of them got home and took a good long shower...

36 posted on 03/07/2013 11:22:15 AM PST by hummingbird
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To: Nachum

Here we go again.

Zer0 takes out 12 politicians to a super expensive DC watering hole, while all the cooks and waitstaff at the White House take the evening off, with pay.


37 posted on 03/07/2013 11:24:57 AM PST by Noob1999 (Loose Lips, Sink Ships)
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To: TexasRepublic

Oh c’mon now. A liberal friend of mine assured me just yesterday that he pays for his own way on his vacations. Good Lord.


38 posted on 03/07/2013 11:26:41 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Nachum

How can anyone be surprised? The House Repubs fully funded ObamaCare yesterday after promising to not do so during the last campaign. The Republican Party is dead but the body is so huge you can’t tell yet.


39 posted on 03/07/2013 11:27:48 AM PST by pabianice
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To: Nachum
It's important that we have a dialogue with the communist.

Puke.

40 posted on 03/07/2013 11:28:22 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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