What a cry baby. He's losing it; he's getting out of control. This speech was outrageous; who does he think he is? If he wants this bloated useless so called stimulus Bill, then all he has to do is have the Democrats pass it over the objections of the Republicans (the Democrats have enough votes) and then he can sign it, end of story.
President Obama is in a real hard spot here because he so desperately wants the Republicans on board so that when this pig of a spending Bill fails to do what they have hyped it up to do, then they, the Republicans, can share the blame.
I would advise the Republicans to stay as far away from this useless big government spending Bill as they can. I don't want one Republican voting for this Bill. The Democrats have been bragging about how smart they are, and how much better of a job they could have been doing on the economy, the wars, the war on terror etc., well this is their chance, this big fat pork filled spendulus government expanding Bill that masquerades as stimulus is theirs, and they are the ones who should be held responsible when it fails.
Jbranstetter04
In Stimulus Debate, Obama Drifts Into Campaign Mode
President Obama is facing growing questions about his tone and the effectiveness of his leadership after he spent Thursday night mocking his political rivals and accusing them of playing games with the economic stimulus.
In an off-the-cuff moment during his speech to House Democrats at a retreat in Virginia, the president ribbed Republicans, including former rival John McCain, who call the recovery package a "spending bill."
"So then you get the argument, 'well, this is not a stimulus bill, this is a spending bill.' What do you think a stimulus is? That's the whole point," Obama said to laughter.
Conservatives are complaining that while Obama held a set of good-faith bipartisan meetings with congressional leaders in January, now he's reverted to campaign mode in a bid to muscle the more than $900 billion package through Congress. Obama said Friday it is "inexcusable and irresponsible" to delay passage of the recovery plan.
"He reduced himself from being president of all the American people to being the partisan leader of the left," former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said of Obama's Thursday night speech. "The first month of your presidency is not a very good time to give a campaign speech."
Senate Democratic leaders are scrambling to pick off the bare minimum of votes needed to pull the contentious stimulus package across the finish line. Republicans and some Democrats are still concerned about the size of the more than $900 billion package and want to pare it down considerably, though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants a vote by late Friday afternoon.
Obama, who cultivated the image of a post-partisan leader, has been hitting campaign themes in recent days, accusing Republicans in media interviews, an op-ed in The Washington Post and public speeches of reverting to the failed policies of tax cuts. He referenced his own political capital Thursday night and Friday.
"They did not choose more of the same in November," Obama said Friday. "They sent us here to make change."
He dismissed what he called "phony arguments and petty politics" Thursday.
"You can nit and you can pick and, you know, that's the game we all play here. We know how to play that game. What I'm saying is now we can't afford to play that game. We've got to pull together," Obama said.
But those who are negotiating a compromise measure do not consider their meetings a political ploy.
While Obama points to Friday's Labor Department report -- which shows more than a half-million jobs lost in January -- as another warning of the coming "catastrophe" if Congress does not act, many lawmakers think the long-term damage of a bloated spending bill is just as dangerous.
They say the bill, which some have taken to calling the "spendulus," still contains billions of dollars in wasteful spending. Though moderates are trying to pare it down to close to $800 billion, the joint tax committee just came out with a new price tag putting the current package at about $937 billion. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell continued to raise flags about the size of the bill Friday, saying, "We need to get it right."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/06/stimulus-debate-obama-drifts-campaign-mode/
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