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Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« on: December 13, 2010, 07:14:03 PM »
Obama vows to fight Republicans -- next year
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/12/obama-vows-to-fight-republicans----next-year/1


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As fellow Democrats accuse him of caving in to Republicans on the tax cut deal, President Obama is repeatedly promising them that he will fight the GOP aggressively when it takes over the U.S. House and adds senators next month.


"I will be happy to see the Republicans test whether or not I'm itching for a fight on a whole range of issues," Obama said last week. "I suspect they will find I am. And I think the American people will be on my side on a whole bunch of these fights."


Obama has echoed this pledge repeatedly as House and Senate Democrats wrestle with the package that also includes items sought by Obama, including a 13-month extension of unemployment benefits and an array of middle class tax cuts. In a conference call with political supporters, Obama said: "We are going to go right back at Republicans in showing why the things that they wanted in this compromise don't make sense."

One of those fights will be over the very thing that some Democrats are angry about: The two-year extension of George W. Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest Americans.

"When they expire in two years, I will fight to end them," Obama said. "Just as I suspect the Republican Party may fight to end the middle-class tax cuts that I've championed and that they've opposed."

Another issues: Budget deficits that, Obama agrees, will rise under the Bush tax cut extension deal.

"Republicans are going to have to explain to the American people over the next two years how making those tax cuts for the high end permanent squares with their stated desire to start reducing deficits and debt," Obama said.

Republicans are also sharpening their weapons, saying that raising anyone's taxes in a bad economy is a bad idea.

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a key member of the new House Republican majority, said yesterday on Fox News Sunday that his party will produce a package of spending cuts next year.

"We are not interested in raising taxes," Ryan said. "We're going to come out of the gates going after spending ... spending cuts, spending controls, reforms of the structure of spending."

Another possibility is tax reform, Ryan said, one that involves "broader based lower rates for economic growth."

In deferring these kinds of battles until next year, Obama has said that without a deal the Bush tax cuts would expire and everyone would see their taxes rise, and "I want to make sure that the American people aren't hurt because we're having a political fight."

That presumably comes next year.

"I'm looking forward to seeing them on the field of competition over the next two years," Obama said.

(Posted by David Jackson)


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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2010, 07:22:22 PM »
I get dizzy from reading all the spin that emanates from anything Obama says
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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2010, 07:39:08 PM »
Yeah let's blame the gop for bamas hyperpartisan stance.

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2010, 08:06:39 PM »
Yeah let's blame the gop for bamas hyperpartisan stance.

what is his "hyperpartinsan" stance?

was it something about no negotion on anything?

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2010, 08:08:16 PM »
Straw - mcconnell said that bama never called him once in 18 months.

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2010, 08:12:56 PM »
not a wise move on his part.  IMO he should be talking about how much he wants to work WITH them.  let them look like the bad guys

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2010, 08:15:40 PM »
240 - he never had any intention of working with them from day one.

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2010, 08:25:40 PM »
240 - he never had any intention of working with them from day one.

what about him caving completely on tax cuts?

you don't consider that working with them?  He gave them 100% of what they wanted on that case.

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2010, 08:34:48 PM »
Straw - mcconnell said that bama never called him once in 18 months.

bfd - McConnell has been in plenty of meetings and had all the access he needs

McConnell was out there early on opposing anything and everything that Obama was in favor of just because Obama was for it.

Republicans (probably McConnel) vote against legislation that they conceive and sponsor when Obama get's on board

is there anything else that leads you to conclude Obama is hyperpartisan other than McConnell has his panties in a twist becasue Obama hasn't called him?


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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2010, 08:45:41 PM »
what about him caving completely on tax cuts?

you don't consider that working with them?  He gave them 100% of what they wanted on that case.

No he didn't.  They wanted to make the tax cuts permanent.  He only agreed to extend them for two years. 

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2010, 08:50:19 PM »
No he didn't.  They wanted to make the tax cuts permanent.  He only agreed to extend them for two years. 

And is trying to add a bunch or "pork"
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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #11 on: December 13, 2010, 08:51:10 PM »
No he didn't.  They wanted to make the tax cuts permanent.  He only agreed to extend them for two years. 

they compromised

that's one thing I'm learning about this deal where I can see that Obama did get concessions from the Repubs

same goes for the estate tax but I'm hoping they get more before it's done

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #12 on: December 13, 2010, 08:56:07 PM »
And is trying to add a bunch or "pork"

They already added it.  It's loaded. 

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2010, 08:57:02 PM »
they compromised

that's one thing I'm learning about this deal where I can see that Obama did get concessions from the Repubs

same goes for the estate tax but I'm hoping they get more before it's done

 ::)  Aren't you the same person who repeatedly said Obama should not compromise with Republicans?  Just another liberal hypocrite.  ::)

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2010, 09:03:17 PM »
Straw - mcconnell said that bama never called him once in 18 months.

if he said it it must be true...duuuhhhhh  ::)
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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2010, 09:04:43 PM »
::)  Aren't you the same person who repeatedly said Obama should not compromise with Republicans?  Just another liberal hypocrite.  ::)

I probably first said that Repubs had no intention to compromise so therefore Obama should ignore them

that's what I recall writing but if you can find something different I'll look at it

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2010, 09:11:36 PM »
::)  Aren't you the same person who repeatedly said Obama should not compromise with Republicans?  Just another liberal hypocrite.  ::)


you dont have to take the insults from him, straw.

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2010, 09:17:30 PM »
you dont have to take the insults from him, straw.

I don't care

anyone can "insult" me all they want

If it bothered me I would quit posting

if thats all you've got then its just weakness

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2010, 09:22:15 PM »
you dont have to take the insults from him, straw.

lol

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2010, 10:22:20 PM »
I don't care

anyone can "insult" me all they want

If it bothered me I would quit posting

if thats all you've got then its just weakness
or when they show you to be an idiot  ;) :D

you gonna post the counter arguments for the top 10 myths of the bush tax cuts i posted?

didnt think so playboy...

but hey i guess i insulted you...even though it was by making you look foolish  ::)

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2010, 02:05:17 AM »
I don't care

anyone can "insult" me all they want

If it bothered me I would quit posting

if thats all you've got then its just weakness

Oh brother  ::)--  someone has an inflated ego; People here make fun of you because you have the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise, not because anyone cares about whether or not you post in this forum. Besides, its hard to cause a closeted homosexual with no life, no intelligence and no clue about any of the topics in which he posts to feel "shame" or induce anything resembling self awareness.

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2010, 04:39:13 AM »
How do you know he is a homo? ???

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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2010, 07:20:53 AM »
what about him caving completely on tax cuts?

you don't consider that working with them?  He gave them 100% of what they wanted on that case.

He had no choice in the matter. If taxes go up on us, Obama is as good as DEAD in 2012.

If he didn't, the GOP-run Congress would have written a much tighter bill, with none of the unemployment benefits. Obama would have been eventually FORCED to sign it, or feel America's wrath for the tax-hikes.


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Re: Obama: "I'm Itching for a fight with the GOP"
« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2010, 07:29:01 AM »
what is his "hyperpartinsan" stance?

was it something about no negotion on anything?


"GOP is enemies of hispanics"

"GOP are hostage takers" 

"White executves dont want to pay taxes since it funds inner city education"   

etc etc.