Obama signals compromise with GOP on tax cuts The president said he was eager to sit down with the leaders of both political parties "and figure out how we can move forward together."
Which is a bit different from his "Eff you, I won" attitude from two years ago. Maybe if he hadn't tried that from the start things would have been a bit different.
He also virtually abandoned his legislation — hopelessly stalled in the Senate — featuring economic incentives to reduce carbon emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources.
"I'm going to be looking for other means of addressing this problem," he said. "Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat," he said, strongly implying there will be others.
In other words, he still knows what is best for all of us and will keep trying to ram it down our throats.
I think people started looking at all this, and it felt as if government was getting much more intrusive into people's lives than they were accustomed to," he conceded. But he wasn't talking surrender either.
He sought to tread a careful line, suggesting he would cooperate with Republicans where it was possible and confront them when it was not.
"No one party will be able to dictate where we go from here," he said, a clear warning to Republicans that he won't simply bow to their demands for a sharply conservative switch in economic policy.
As much as he, Queen Nancy, and Prince Harry tried to do just that and attempted to brow-beat the GOP into submission. And as much as he will still try to do it.
"If Republicans have some ideas" for cutting costs of health care or making other changes in the bill, he said he would be glad to take a look
Gee...you mean finally? After shutting them out of any discussion for a few years?
Famously unemotional in public, Obama was asked whether he needs to change his leadership style, and he responded: "When you're in this place, it is hard not to seem removed."
Which is pure bovine excrement. Bush, Clinton, GHW Bush, Reagan, and even Carter managed to not be elitist and aloof from the great unwashed masses that are so beneath Obama and the rest of the Deem (sic) leadership. He sees himself as superior to everyone else, and to suggest he isn't goes against his self importance.
Westbrook v. Mihaly 2 C3d 756 - Constitutional rights may not be infringed simply because the majority of the people choose that they be.
Horatio Seymour - The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.
