outsidethebeltway.com - 1/24/2009
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President Obama urged bipartisan cooperation in putting together a stimulus package — so long as it’s bipartisan in his direction. Charles Hurt for the NY Post:
“You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,” he told top GOP leaders, whom he had ...
politico.com - 1/23/2009
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politico.com —
Obama acknowledges differences between his stimulus package and
the GOP's, but tells bipartisan Hill leaders that he's in...
charge.
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Obama to GOP: 'I won'
blogs.wsj.com - 1/23/2009
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Jonathan Weisman reports on the White House. The
top congressional leaders from both parties gathered at the...
White House for a working discussion over the shape and size of President Barack Obama s economic stimulus plan. The meeting was ...
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Obama to GOP: ‘I Won’
downwithtyranny.blogspot.com - 1/28/2009
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downwithtyranny.blogspot.com —
Limbaugh-- doing what he does best By now
you've probably heard the infamous rant Rush Limbaugh did...
last week on his radio show explaining that he hopes President Obama fails. It's the most rank and vicious kind of partisanship you will ever hear ...
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Outrage Continues To Build As Limbaugh's Hateful Remarks ...
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Obama’s ‘I Won’ Comment
The Moderate Voice —
... it sounded more like “I’m the Decider” …
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning - but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.
Based on that account, my initial reaction was very similar to James Joyner’s:
[Obama] was elected president, not king — or even prime ...
"All too often the United States starts by dictating"
sisu —
... Egad. If only he really wanted to engage seriously in a dialogue with the people on the other side of the aisle in Congress and such as ourselves in a two-way dialogue. But he doesn't. His way or the highway. "I won." ...
Just Another NOT-Bush Nobel Peace Prize
Gates of Vienna —
... about the press’ treatment of him has abated, but the Nobel Committee has just increased Obama’s narcissistic quotient immeasurably. Now he can say “I won” with even more dismissive emphasis. For Obama, winning means never having to negotiate with your peers. And he has definitely proved in his time in office that he's clueless about bi-partisan negotiations with the Republicans. The irony is his reputation as being a leader who negotiates. In reality, he capitulates and calls it dialogue. The Russians are still gloating over that one. This man does not play well with ...
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“I won.”
redstate.com 1/23/2009 — No argument from me: you won .
In fact, let the record show that your official response to the GOP’s offer of assistance and advisement was “I won.”
So, it’s all yours. Your responsibility, your obligation, your reputation ...
Obama to Republicans on Stimulus Package: I Won:
volokh.com 1/25/2009 — True, but Obama won by, among other things, promising a net decrease in federal spending. Here he is during the third debate: "what I've done throughout this campaign is to propose...
Obama says: "I won."
althouse.blogspot.com 1/24/2009 — Ha ha. I hope he says that a lot. He needs some catchphrases, and that one is so amusingly reminiscent of Richard Nixon's "I am the President."
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But We Won
corner.nationalreview.com 1/31/2009 — Ramesh asked yesterday: "I'm not quite sure why so many liberals are spluttering with rage over the Republicans' failure to go along with their stimulus ideas." He then went on to provide perfectly rational explanations for why liberals should still ...
Obama to GOP: "I Won"
openleft.com 1/23/2009 — Ha! Just when I was criticizing Obama for the position he forced himself into via bipartisan rhetoric , he comes out and changes his tune :
President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional ...
He Won
julescrittenden.com 1/24/2009 — Obama, still a little cranky a day after getting testy with the press, demonstrates his across-the-aisle manner, lecturing Repubs on electoral politics when they raise concerns about a giveaway of your money. Politico: "I won."
It's a good line, ...
Obama tells GOP, 'I won'
washingtonmonthly.com 1/24/2009 — OBAMA TELLS GOP, 'I WON'.... President Obama is, for good or ill, making a sincere effort to work with congressional Republicans, most notably on an economic stimulus package. That doesn't mean, however, that's he's going to get pushed around. ...
HuffPo: The Media Is Racist
riehlworldview.com 2/3/2009 — Unfortunately there are too many plots and subplots within this ridiculous HuffPo piece to relate them all. It seems that when a member of the White House press corp has the audacity to ask the POTUS a question in the White House press area, clearly ...
Why Obama won
politico.com 11/5/2008 — The coalition of voters that Obama assembled to win the election was as modern as the technology his campaign employed. See also: History happens
Demetri Martin's New Show: A Seriously "Important Thing"
huffingtonpost.com 2/5/2009 — NEW YORK — No one would dispute the importance of things like Power, Safety or Chairs. But to build a half-hour of comedy around any of them _ that's a whole other thing.
All the more reason for Demetri Martin to be doing it. As he proves anew in "Important Things With Demetri Martin," ...
Obama meets with economic advisers —
CNN Political Ticker 1/24/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Shortly after President Barack Obama painted a bleak economic picture Saturday in his weekly address to the nation, he met with with his economic team to talk strategy and the national budget.
White House Press Secretary ...
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