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Subscribe to RSSThe New York Times’ Baker: “Mr. Obama, scarred by failed negotiations in his first term and emboldened by a clear if close election to a second, has emerged as a different kind of negotiator in the past week or two, sticking to the liberal line and frustrating Republicans on the other side of the bargaining table. … Until Republicans offer their own new plan, Mr. Obama will not alter his. In effect, he is trying to leverage what he claims as an election mandate to force Republicans to take ownership of the difficult choices ahead. His approach is born of painful experience. In his first four years in office, Mr. Obama has repeatedly offered what he considered compromises on stimulus spending, health care and deficit reduction to Republicans, who either rejected them as inadequate or pocketed them and insisted on more.”
The AP: “The White House says Republicans should come clean about how much they're willing to raise tax rates on the rich. Republicans counter that President Obama's latest plan is a joke that avoids tough decisions on the nation's biggest entitlement programs, including Medicare.”
Obama golfed yesterday with Bill Clitnon and Terry McAuliffe. Here’s a picture.
On the agenda today, the Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov (pronounced baw-REES-awf) will be at the White House discussing NATO and Afghanistan. Later, Obama speaks at a nuclear proliferation symposium started by ex-Sens. Lugar and Nunn.
“It survived a historic Supreme Court fight and a bruising presidential election. Next up for President Obama’s groundbreaking law to expand health insurance coverage: winning over a skeptical and, in much of the country, downright hostile public,” The Boston Globe reports. “Health care advocates say lessons — and inspiration — can be drawn from the Massachusetts experience, where a multipronged publicity blitz helped the state achieve near-universal coverage more quickly than lawmakers anticipated when they passed the 2006 law.”
About 800,000 are expected for Obama’s second inauguration, down from the record 1.8 million that showed up four years ago.
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obama needs to relax maybe go over and see if he can find the saudi kings zipper and give a little head.
Since when does a 2-3 Percent win constitute a Mandate ? This is the most Divisive President to ever sit in the white house, he must be incredibly dense to think the election results are a Mandate. Both Sides need to STFU and Get the F%*( to Work, Do the Business of the Country, enough of the Showboating Crap. Please Go Ahead and Raise the Taxes on the Upper 2%, and when they haul ass because they can, guess who's going to be stuck paying the bills. So Much for Working for the Middle Class.
wow - obama goes from arrogant , prancing little narcessicst to "no more mr.nice guy - wow - he's grown
Dumb leaders on the right, (Boehner, MacConnell) have not understood that being elected is to do peoples business and not GOP business. The country should have priority to make things right, which Bush had messed up with unpaid wars, Tax interests of the few instead looking out for the many. Macconnell faces a real challenge in the next election and hopefully the people will send him back to Kentucky for good.
no more mister nice guy he never was nice, just stupid
wow....incredible how wrong non obama supporters are on every issue...seems like the dems in here are little mice in obama's pocket that see and hear everything these two say to each other
don't confuse me with facts...I know obama is jesus
Yes, Obama forced the issue over health care. Other than that he's tried over and over to find middle ground with Republicans whose idea of middle ground is far right of what most Americans want. I am so tired of people who get on these forums who pay little or no federal tax, suck up medicare and social security benefits, and do nothing but complain that their taxes are too high, because they think being a dittohead is a good thing.
Go put on a three corner hat, waive a flag with only 13 stars on it, and chant "don't tread on me." You're only proving you're irrelivant in a world where our children are working for peanuts while corporate robber barons laugh all the way to the bank.
It was never about being Mr Nice Guy, it was about growing some F@CKI@G balls and standing up to the GOP, something he THOUGHT he could get around by being the ultimate compermiser.
reb's or dem's they are all the same and all are to blame for this country's mess. not the nose to the grind stone hard working citizens in this country. they're in office so we could spend the time making a living for our selves and our families. they have sold out this country time and time again with their treasnous act's that will live infamy.
What do you mean "No more Mr Niceguy"??? When was Obama ever nice? He talks a good game about working together, but he is the most finger pointing, name calling, blame everyone else president I have ever seen in my 48 years.
Obama, nice? hahahahahahaha! That's really pretty hilarious.