Mitt Romney faults President Obama for being “out campaigning to the American people doing rallies around the country,” and John E. Sununu refers to Obama as having “a string of campaign-style rallies across the country.” I applaud the president’s choice of tactics in the face of House Speaker John Boehner’s red-faced intransigence and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s sputtering refusal to acknowledge the results of the recent elections.
If Obama can get the ill-served public to light up the phone lines in the offices of those legislators who refuse to put our country above party, there is a chance for the country to step out of election mode and address its problems.
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I find this letter truly offensive. The writer seems to believe that since Obama won his election, the Repblicans in the House must lay down, ifgorne their voters, and give in to the president's radical demands. I DO NOT applaud the President's childish, red faced antics. There is a need for leadership, which would work to bring the sides together to reach an agreement. Rather than work with Republicans, the President is committed to defeating them. He is not a leader, he is a campaigner.
The sequestration was the idea of the president, designed to embarrass the GOP, and force them to bend to his wishes. They are 100% correct to stand up to such a childish game. We do still miss the quiet dignity of President Bush, who truly believed in America, and tried to be an honest broker for solutions. The gamesmanship of President Obama is a new low for our country.
Every speech he makes that does nothing to solve the problem is another million dollars that he is wasting...
Airforce One, heavy security, media, staff, . . . ect, travelling caravan or a travelling circus?
Circus.
Now comes Richmond12 asserting, “Rather than work with Republicans, the President is committed to defeating them,” a perfect example of “The Big Lie.” Holy Cod…are we expected to forget Mitch McConnell’s bald-faced statement that he and his Republicans had no other goal than to make the President a one term President by absolute non-cooperation. Some politicians and special interests believe the average American voter to have a short attention span but, really…Richmond’s assertion is Orwellian.
Harry Truman once observed that the President is the only official in Washington whose job it is to represent all the people. There are 335 tiles in the House mosaic, roughly by population. 100 Senators are bigger tiles, sometimes representing land more than people, and sometimes less. Why do New York, Rhode Island, Texas and Hawaii have the same number of Senators? (The Federalist Papers have a lot to say about this kind of “diversity.”) But the modern presidency should take a view of the whole, not just its parts or a coalition of parts. Of course, when the President is elected by 5 votes on the Supreme Court or by the Electoral College if he/she gets less than a plurality of the vote, that could gum up that theory.
Sorry, Nahan, but you are completely wrong. The House GOp has passed budgets, that the senate has ignored. They have passed legitlation giving the power to the president to determine how the sequestration speniding cuts would be allocated. He vetoed the bill. The GOp has tried to aork with the president, the president has done nothing but campaign.
Mitch McConnell did want to make the president only serve one term. But he never said he had "no other goal". Funny how the left wing lives and dies by the ten second sound bite.