U.S. President Barack Obama holds a child as he greets the audience at
Democratic National Committee winter meeting in Washington February 6, 2010.
REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
Posted on 02/06/2010 3:36:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama told fellow Democrats on Saturday this is no time to "lick our wounds and try to hang on" and vowed instead to press ahead with financial regulatory and healthcare reforms.
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Obama came out swinging at a meeting of the Democratic National Committee, accusing Republicans of caring more about "scoring political points" than solving the country's pressing problems like high unemployment.
But Obama presented no new ideas on how the Democrats could overcome obstacles that have stalled his domestic priorities.
The political climate in Washington has become more fractured as lawmakers adjust to a new reality now that the Republicans' gain of a Massachusetts Senate seat has given them the ability to block bills using procedural hurdles.
Hammering one of his biggest challenges, Obama said "America can't afford to wait" for a financial regulatory overhaul to plug gaps widely seen as the root of the 2008 markets crisis that tipped the economy into deep recession.
He spoke a day after Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd declared an impasse with Senator Richard Shelby, his Republican counterpart in negotiations to reach a compromise on tightening financial rules. The situation leaves Democrats with the option of trying to proceed alone.
"If we've learned anything from the devastating recession, we know that wise regulation actually can enhance the market and make it more stable and make our economy work better," Obama said. "We can't return to the dereliction of duty that helped deliver this recession."
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod suggested, in an interview to air on C-SPAN on Sunday, that some Republicans were yielding to an "enormous lobbying campaign" by financial firms opposed to reform.
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(Obamassiah licking ice cream pic goes in this spot)
well..with that thought in my head..I won't eat for the rest of the weekend..
U.S. President Barack Obama holds a child as he greets the audience at
Democratic National Committee winter meeting in Washington February 6, 2010.
REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
Democrats will follow this educated idiot to their political doom.
Obama is simply trying to tick a lot of people off on purpose. When is this guy going to give it a break? This is enough already of his bright ideas. People lost in New Jersey, Virginia and even Mass. because of his radical ideas. Unless Obama secretly wants Republicans to win instead of radical Democrats.
HEY OBAMA/DEMS, YOU WON... DEAL WITH IT!
Hitler said the same thing too...just before leading his generals and his troops to ignomous painful deaths, long prison terms in Siberia, total defeat, and the destruction of Germany.
They’re Dems which means they’re probably licking something other than wounds....
Wrong finger!
lick this
Check this lady out. We The People are coming.
Tea Party Convention
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message983106/pg1
"Hey kid... don't tell anyone my brains leaked out when I was your age."
I’d like to see a cartoon on the lines of the scene in Patriot where Mel Gibson picks up the flag and stops the retreat. In the cartoon, Obama would have a hope and change flag yelling we’re almost to the top to the Democrat lemmings. As he’s looking backwards you can see he’s about to fall into the abys. A couple of lemmings named VA, MA, and NJ have already fallen in.
"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
That's quite a contrast with Obama who could be paraphrased as saying:
"Let's ignore the little people. All they have is ballots, and we won't let their votes stop us. We're the government, and the people's only role is to obey."
THESE are the kind of people we need to send to Washington - not career politicians/lying lawyers.
These are the people who are like us - therefore ‘representative’ of us...
Golly, wouldn't it be great to have her and Col West both win and go to Washington? Two brilliant leaders - who just happen to be - gasp - black. But how can that be? Black republicans? ;o)
Yeah, and head and shoulders above any of the black democrats in DC -
The tea party is bringing people out of shadows that will now run - seeing there's a chance to change the status quo in DC, maybe like not since the very beginning of the country. REAL people. Thank for the link!
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