Thread: Obama: I Have Bent Over Backwards Working with the GOP

Obama: I Have Bent Over Backwards Working with the GOP

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by William Bigelow 3 Oct 2013, 1:43 AM PDT

President Obama told CNBC’s John Harwood that while he’s been president, he’s “bent over backwards to work with the Republican party.”


Obama boasted:

During the course of my presidency, I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican party. I think I’m pretty well known for being a calm guy. Sometimes people think I’m too calm. And am I exasperated? Absolutely, I’m exasperated. Because this is entirely unnecessary. I am exasperated with the idea that, unless I say that, ‘Twenty million people, you can’t have health insurance,’ these folks will not reopen the government. That is irresponsible.

The President asserted that he’s the most malleable of men; he said he was prepared to “negotiate on anything.” There’s just one tiny catch: the GOP has to submit a bill that’s a clean piece of legislation (read: funds Obamacare) to reopen the government and let him raise the debt ceiling.



Obama explained:

Until we get that done, until we make sure that Congress allows Treasury to pay for things that Congress itself already authorized, we are not going to engage in a series of negotiations. It is not acceptable for one faction of one part in one chamber to say, ‘Either we get what we want or we’ll shut down the government.’ Or even worse, ‘We will not allow the U.S. Treasury to pay its bills and put the United States in default for the first time in history. If we get in the habit where a few folks, an extremist wing of one party, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, are allowed to extort concessions based on a threat of undermin[ing] the full faith and credit of the United States, then any president who comes after me, not just me, will find themselves unable to govern effectively.

Obviously bitter that the initial stock market reaction to the government shutdown was an uptick, Obama warned Wall Street to get its act together and start worrying, saying, Wall Street “should be concerned. It is not unusual for Democrats and Republicans to disagree. That’s the way the founders designed our government. Democracy’s messy. But when you have a situation in which a faction is willing potentially to default on U.S. government obligations, then we are in trouble.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/02/Obama-I-Have-Bent-Over-Backwards-Working-With-the-GOP?utm_source=BreitbartNews&utm_medium=facebook

Remember this si the same person who when a senator voted against a debt increase to send a message?!

This is the only bowing i have ever seen.

36 Things Barack Obama Won’t Say About the Shutdown:

Posted by Rodney Lee on Oct 3, 2013



36 Things Obama Won’t Say About the Shutdown
- and neither will the mainstream media:

#1 85% of all government activities are actually being funded during this “government shutdown”.

#2 Approximately 1,350,000 “essential” federal employees will continue to work during this “government shutdown”.
#3 Overall, 63 percent of the federal workforce will continue to work during this “government shutdown”.
#4 The U.S. Postal Service will continue to deliver our mail.
#5 U.S. military personnel will remain on duty and will continue to get paid.
#6 Social Security recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#7 Medicare recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#8 Medicaid recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#9 Food stamp recipients will continue to get their benefits.
#10 Those on unemployment will continue to get their benefits.
#11 Federal retirees will continue to get their pensions.
#12 The federal school lunch program has enough money to go through at least the end of this month.
#13 Public schools all over the country will continue to stay open.
#14 Almost all federal law enforcement officials will continue working.
#15 The Federal Reserve will remain “completely functional“.
#16 The Supreme Court will continue to operate normally and federal courts have enough money to keep going for at least two weeks.
#17 TSA employees will continue to molest travelers at our airports.
#18 Air traffic controllers will continue to monitor traffic at our airports.
#19 Hopelessly outmanned border patrol agents will continue to try to stem the tide of illegal immigration.
#20 Visas and passports will continue to be issued by the State Department.
#21 The Veterans Administration will continue to offer substandard medical services, and it will be able to continue processing benefit payments at least for now.
#22 The Obama administration apparently has plenty of money to spend on closing open-air memorials that are usually open to the public 24 hours a day.
#23 The Department of Defense announced the awarding of 94 new contracts worth a combined total of more than 5 billion dollars on September 30th – the day right before the “government shutdown”.
#24 The “government shutdown” has not prevented the new two billion dollar NSA spy center from opening up.
#25 Federal prisons will continue to operate normally.
#26 Amtrak trains will continue to run.
#27 The Patent and Trademark Office will be open.
#28 The Consumer Product Safety Commission will continue to issue product recalls if the products “create an immediate threat to the safety of human life“.
#29 The National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center will continue to track weather patterns.
#30 If the federal government needs to respond to a natural disaster, this “shutdown” will not affect that.
#31 NASA will continue to support the Mars Rover and the two American astronauts up on the International Space Station.
#32 All city employees of the D.C. government have been deemed “essential” and will continue to go to work.
#33 Even though the Obamacare exchanges are not working properly, people will still be able to access them.
#34 The IRS will continue to collect taxes, but it will be suspending punitive audits of conservative organizations.
#35 Barack Obama will continue to get paid for the full duration of this “shutdown”.
#36 The U.S. Congress will continue to get paid for the full duration of this “shutdown”.
And everyone else is on paid leave. They’ll get their backpay when we open back up for business..

Read more at http://joeforamerica.com/2013/10/36-...2ZfV8xq9YDX.99

Now pay attention here folks there are "essential" and there are "non-essential", and we don't get the right to pick which is which!!!!