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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.

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


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KEYWORDS: dines; gop; obama; sequesterdinner; taxes
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Why not ask for a trillion in new taxes? Two trillion?
1 posted on 03/07/2013 10:50:39 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

That was an expensive lunch! Also, Obama isn’t picking up the tab, we are.


2 posted on 03/07/2013 10:52:22 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Nachum
Obama picked up the tab?

Now, THAT is news!

3 posted on 03/07/2013 10:53:24 AM PST by Slyfox (Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)
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To: Nachum

It looks as though Barry is trying to get the “republicans” in the “free lunch” mode.


4 posted on 03/07/2013 10:53:33 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


5 posted on 03/07/2013 10:53:37 AM PST by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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Why not ask for a trillion in new taxes? Two trillion?

He'll ask for a trillion after the Repubicans agree to the $600 billion. Then, once they agree to the trillion, he'll move the goalposts to 1.5 trillion. And so on, and so on.

6 posted on 03/07/2013 10:53:54 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Nachum

FUBO.

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.


7 posted on 03/07/2013 10:54:20 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Slyfox

Check your wallet.


8 posted on 03/07/2013 10:54:41 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: Nachum

So, this was a five-hundred-million-dollar-a-plate dinner?


9 posted on 03/07/2013 10:55:42 AM PST by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: COBOL2Java

And people will support them regardless. Then bitch.


10 posted on 03/07/2013 10:56:26 AM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: COBOL2Java

Yeah, I know. I thought about that just as I was hitting the post button.


11 posted on 03/07/2013 10:57:07 AM PST by Slyfox (Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness -G Wash.)
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To: Nachum

Note to South Carolinians:

When you flush Lindsay Graham in the primary, PLEASE nominate somebody who listens to Rush Limbaugh or Dana Loesch at least a couple hours a week.

Don’t put up somebody who is clueless about media ambush tactics, steps on a turd, and loses to some Baraqqi in November.


12 posted on 03/07/2013 10:57:18 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Rocky

Oh, wow. Really bad math on my part. It was a fifty-billion-dollar-a-plate-dinner.


13 posted on 03/07/2013 10:57:28 AM PST by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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Obama dines with GOP, asks for $600 billion in new taxes

How about CUTTING SPENDING, you Marxist!!!???

The invited Senators were picked by Obama and by Sen. Lindsey Graham, The RINO senator from South Carolina, who will be in a primary if my dreams comes true!

Fixed it!!

14 posted on 03/07/2013 10:59:45 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (More Republicans stayed home then the margin of victory of O's Win...)
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To: Slyfox

Think of the tip, @ 20%, on that $600 billion. Just, WOW!!!!! That WAS an expensive meal. Not a bucket of cluck from KFC.


15 posted on 03/07/2013 10:59:55 AM PST by NCC-1701 (The LEFT's intolerance of the RIGHT is intolerable.)
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To: Nachum

Obama already knows McCain’s weakness along with Grahams and in turn weak Republicans were asked to join the group. Type that can be persuaded to go along with any thought/bill/spending measure.


16 posted on 03/07/2013 11:00:29 AM PST by YukonGreen
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To: Nachum

The moment he asked for $600B in new taxes.

Think this is analagous to a drunk meeting a group of his enablers to ask for truck load of Maker’s Mark.

And yes, I do think Graham and McCain are enablers.


17 posted on 03/07/2013 11:01:48 AM PST by Made In The USA (I'm not yelling, just... just talking enthusiastically..)
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To: Slyfox

Obama paid for it by taking out a loan from Duke Energy. He won’t have to pay it back, ever.


18 posted on 03/07/2013 11:01:49 AM PST by Hoodat (I stand with Rand.)
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To: nascarnation

South Carolina has its own “Elites”—and they’re firmly on Graham’s side. We need a big name to help primary Graham out vthats why he’s so arrogant towards conservatives. He’s got a lot of money to campaign. But the tea party put Nicki Haley into office with Sarah Palins help. We need that kind of help again.


19 posted on 03/07/2013 11:02:27 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Nachum

Who were the 10 senators who went with McIgnorant and Greyed Ham?


20 posted on 03/07/2013 11:03:33 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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