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President Obama: GOP ‘says no to everything’
« on: September 01, 2014, 09:19:44 pm »
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=58BBAC9A-9759-4E3C-BD54-57934540F8CC

 President Obama: GOP ‘says no to everything’
By: Kendall Breitman
September 1, 2014 04:07 PM EDT

President Barack Obama used his Labor Day speech on Monday to slam Republicans for opposing an increase in the minimum wage, equal pay for women, affordable health care and more.

“Republicans in Congress love to say ‘no.’ Those are just facts, they’re facts of life. They say ‘no’ to everything,” Obama said to the crowd gathered at Milwaukee’s Laborfest.

The president began to outline his goals for working-class families, saying that he has “put [his] money down” on the middle class.

“I want an economy where your hard work pays off with higher wages, and higher income and fair pay for women, and workplace flexibility for parents, and affordable health insurance and decent retirement benefits,” Obama said. “I’m not asking for the moon, I just want a good deal for Americans.”

He continued, “Most of the policies I’m talking about have two things in common: They’re going to help more working families get ahead, and the Republicans who run our Congress oppose almost all of them.”

As the crowd began to boo, Obama responded, “Don’t boo, vote,” a motto he has used before when directing speeches against Republicans as midterm elections approach in November.

“If we had a Congress that cared about policies that actually help working people, I promise you we could get everything done that we’ve talked about doing,” Obama said. “But until we have that Congress, it’s up to us to fight for these policies.”

Obama traveled to Wisconsin on Air Force One with Secretary of Labor Tom Perez and several labor union leaders, according to White House press pool reports. The president was greeted at the General Mitchell International Airport by Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate who’s locked in a close reelection battle this year, and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, a Democrat.Wisconsin has faced scrutiny from labor unions since Republican state lawmakers voted to revoke collective bargaining rights for public employees in 2011.
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Re: President Obama: GOP ‘says no to everything’
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2014, 09:41:43 pm »
No, Mr. President, they just say no to you. Now if you want a guy who likes to truly say no to everything, take a look at the person in charge of the Senate.
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Re: President Obama: GOP ‘says no to everything’
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2014, 11:29:11 pm »
No, Mr. President, they just say no to you. Now if you want a guy who likes to truly say no to everything, take a look at the person in charge of the Senate.

The President, as is his wont, revels in reducing his opponents to mere caricatures, and the worth of their arguments to a species of thoughtless cruelty.

He does so because in truth, he but a caricature of a real President, and one fully imbued with the meanness of spirit he reflexively assigns to those who oppose him or worse, who threaten to reveal his one and only true object: his own glorification.

We have for the first time in our nation's history a President who genuinely and devoutly opposes the central principles upon which the American nation was founded: individual human liberty, the inalienable rights of all bequeathed by a just and loving Creator as a right of birth, not as a gift from a benevolent state power, or from its leader, whether chosen or not.

Do we oppose Mr. Obama? Yes, we do.

Because it is right and just to oppose a government that seeks not to protect rights but to impose endless laws, regulations and taxes that constrain and punish hard work, honor, and achievement, while rewarding sloth, immorality, and dependency.

Because it is right and just to promote liberty, commerce and voluntary association by a free people, and to oppose statism, collectivism and illegitimate means of social control by a central government that has forgotten its place.

Because it is right and just to promote a common culture and community by which all may prosper, and to oppose the divisive politics of group grievance.

Because it is right and just to promote human virtue, as reflected by honor, respect, decency, love, compassion, learning, and by productive enterprise.

And it is equally our duty to oppose a so-called "leader" who promotes the very opposite of virtue, and who practices it daily, with reckless abandon.
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Re: President Obama: GOP ‘says no to everything’
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2014, 12:00:01 am »
The President, as is his wont, revels in reducing his opponents to mere caricatures, and the worth of their arguments to a species of thoughtless cruelty.

He does so because in truth, he but a caricature of a real President, and one fully imbued with the meanness of spirit he reflexively assigns to those who oppose him or worse, who threaten to reveal his one and only true object: his own glorification.

We have for the first time in our nation's history a President who genuinely and devoutly opposes the central principles upon which the American nation was founded: individual human liberty, the inalienable rights of all bequeathed by a just and loving Creator as a right of birth, not as a gift from a benevolent state power, or from its leader, whether chosen or not.

Do we oppose Mr. Obama? Yes, we do.

Because it is right and just to oppose a government that seeks not to protect rights but to impose endless laws, regulations and taxes that constrain and punish hard work, honor, and achievement, while rewarding sloth, immorality, and dependency.

Because it is right and just to promote liberty, commerce and voluntary association by a free people, and to oppose statism, collectivism and illegitimate means of social control by a central government that has forgotten its place.

Because it is right and just to promote a common culture and community by which all may prosper, and to oppose the divisive politics of group grievance.

Because it is right and just to promote human virtue, as reflected by honor, respect, decency, love, compassion, learning, and by productive enterprise.

And it is equally our duty to oppose a so-called "leader" who promotes the very opposite of virtue, and who practices it daily, with reckless abandon.

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Re: President Obama: GOP ‘says no to everything’
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2014, 04:13:36 am »
no to all of this POTUS's loopy ideas is completely appropriate