Thread: GOP leader hopes to work with Obama on some issues

GOP leader hopes to work with Obama on some issues

By Laurie Kellman
October 21, 2010 7:02 AM

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate's top Republican says President Barack Obama and a more-Republican Congress could join to pass laws on trade and spending policy and make changes to the health care overhaul if the administration listens to voters on Election Day.

"I can't believe he's going to continue to ignore the wishes of the American people if his party has a very bad day Nov. 2," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "If he pivots and wants to work with us, obviously I'd be happy to talk to him."

White House spokesman Bill Burton said Obama "is eager to work with anyone, Republican or Democrat, who wants to work together to meet the challenges facing our country.

"After two years of partisan posturing and parliamentary roadblocks, it would be a welcome change if Sen. McConnell were to embrace the politics of cooperation and problem-solving," Burton added. Given the heated campaign trail rhetoric by Republican candidates vowing to overturn the health care law, for example, "we'll wait and see."

The two sides may have little choice but to work together on key issues in the new session of Congress that opens in January. Republicans are expected to gain seats in the House and Senate, if not overturn the Democratic majority, just as Obama's 2012 re-election campaign effectively begins.

Speaking from his home in Louisville, Ky., McConnell said there are several areas of agreement that already exist between congressional Republicans and Obama that, theoretically, could pass quickly.

Those issues, he said, include an arcane tax reporting law on businesses that's part of the unpopular health care overhaul. Even Obama wants the so-called 1099 provision changed so that businesses are not overburdened with paperwork.

McConnell also suggested that the two sides could write into law trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama in an effort to create jobs.

Promoting nuclear energy and working to reduce federal spending and debt are other policy areas on which McConnell predicted the two sides could come to quick agreement.

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The old Republican Guard still don't get it.

No more reaching across the isle, No more compromises. The future of this once great Republic is at stake. (And by the way all you damn politicians should quit referring to what we have as a Democracy, it is a REPUBLIC.)

REPEAL,,,,do not replace.......no tinkering around the edges. We must have Obama's policies fail. So that America wins. Those RINO's that don't go all out in our fight to take America back to its Founding principles will be in our crosshairs as their elections come up again. Investigations into Obama and all his marxist cronies should begin immediately including him having to PROVE that he is actually qualified to be President. No compromise on Border security. No Amnesty of any kind, ever.

There is much work to be done......you MUST attempt to get it done even if he vetoes it. If you don't even attempt, then he has already won. Fight, not for your political future, but what is right for America. That is easily explained and your actions are easily sold to the people.

Who ever you GOOF Balls are that keep Electing these NEO-CON RINO's ARE ... STOP IT ... WE DONT WANT ANYMORE OF THEIR BULLSHIT

No

Give it to Jeff Sessions

Hey Senator Mitch McConnell, here is a NEWS FLASH FOR YOU.

In case you failed to notice, voters are not interested in electing people that want to "work with Obama" and considering the fact you flirted with voting for Amnesty in 2007 until ALIPAC launched almost 1 million robo calls into TN, why don't you just back away from this Lame Duck session talk.

If DC insiders like Mitch McConnell try to ramrod through more trade agreements and other unpopular materials after a major shift on election day, such a move could lead to massive political unrest in America directed at DC.

Let the will of the people manifest and let the new Congress handle these affairs.

W

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