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Re: Obama
Posted by **Winston OBoogie** on Oct 5, 2013 at 12:11:55 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Obama posted by **BlackMonk** on Oct 4, 2013 at 10:22:50 PM:
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**CNN's Gabe LaMonica
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**Washington (CNN) – A conversation between two Republican senators caught on an open microphone Wednesday provided a candid look into their thoughts about the politics surrounding the government shutdown.
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**Talking about the Democrats' stance of refusing to negotiate a compromise to the shutdown stalemate, Senator Rand Paul told fellow Senator Mitch McConnell:
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**"It's awful for them to say that," Sen. Rand Paul told fellow Senator Mitch McConnell, in regards to the Democrats' stance of refusing to negotiate a compromise to end the shutdown stalemate.
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**"I don't think they poll tested 'we won't negotiate,'" Paul said.
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**Paul was coming off an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, and he told McConnell, who's microphone was switched on for an interview with CNBC, that he has been saying over and over again that "we're willing to compromise, we're willing to negotiate."
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**Earlier, speaking to Burnett on her show "Out Front," Paul said "I would think you have to negotiate, which to me means discussing your differences and trying to get in the middle between the two. So we've been offering some compromises. I think that's what the American people want."
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**He told Burnett that the original Republican position was that they didn't want any Obamacare. "That is what we truly believe," said Paul, "we think it's bad for the country." Paul argued for a compromise to end the stalemate. "The president wants all of it, a 100 percent," he told CNN.
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**Yesterday senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, "what we're not for is negotiating with people who have a bomb strapped to their chest." And both of the Republicans from Kentucky agreed that that kind of Democratic stance will be bad for the Democrats.
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**In the candid moment caught on tape, McConnell told Paul that "after a two hour meeting" with Congressional Democrats, he found that the left side of the aisle is espousing "basically the same view privately as it was publicly."
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**"I know we don't want to be here," Paul told his fellow Republican from Kentucky, but "we're gonna win this I think."
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**It becomes a bit clearer who really wants to work to end this shutdown crap. Maybe it's time for Obama to stop acting the part of a dictator and refusing to bend some in order to end this stalemate. This whole thing is about ready to turn on him.
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**A woman killed for trying to run the White House gate and now a man burns himself up in protest on the National Mall? what's next?
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*"Refusing to bend?" The Democrats were perfectly willing to compromise on the ACA. They did so three years ago. That's why there's no public option. You're asking them to compromise on a compromise. A year from now, you'll be asking them to compromise on the compromised compromise.
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*The time to work on compromises on what a law consists of is BEFORE the law is passed. That was already done.
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And if you remember, Obamacare from day one was basically rammed down everyone's throats and passed by a Democratic Senate before anyone had even taken the time to read it. Pelosi's now famous remark urging the Democrats to "Pass this so we can see what's in it" is a pretty good indicator they just wanted to push something out there to piss off the opposition. It was an example of "my way or the highway" from Obama's point of view.
The American people had no say so in any of it. We didn't vote on it.
63% of Americans now say they don't want Obamacare. And rather than Congress sitting down and hashing out the bugs in it, and perhaps making it something that people will actually want, they want to ram it down everyone's throats and if we don't like it or refuse it, we'll pay a fine? I smell a tyranny coming on..
Have you listened to Obama lately? his refusal to negotiate to end the shutdown and his reference to "it's like having a gun pointed to his head" over it. It's obvious Obama doesn't want to reason it out and he acts like a dictator. If Obama wanted to compromise before how come he doesn't want to now? Is he really to let this crisis get to October 17th when we go into default just because he's unwilling to revise something?
This whole shutdown crisis is going to blow up in his face soon unless he comes back down to earth and is willing to talk it out. It's quite clear that Republicans want to talk it out and the Democrats? all they want to do is walk away and go home.
People are getting fed up with this.
Followup Messages:
- Re: Obama - **BlackMonk** - Oct 5, 2013 at 12:34:58 PM
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