"You Can't Change Washington From the Inside"

[PapaG]

...so I guess he wants us to vote for the guy who has never lived or served in DC.

“I think that I’ve learned some lessons over the last four years and the most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside,” Obama said, appearing to admit his inability to fully deliver on one of the driving themes of his 2008 campaign. “You can only change it from the outside. That’s how I got elected. And that’s how the big accomplishments like health care got done.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81470.html#ixzz274ZzRoy5

 

[ABM]

It's gonna have to be a crass roots movement.

 

[PapaG]

Romney's immediate response tonight at a campaign rally.

"We face a Washington that's broken, that can't get the job done," the former Massachusetts governor told some 4,600 supporters. "The president today threw in the white flag of surrender again. He said he can't change Washington from the inside. He can only change it from outside.
"Well, we're going to give him that chance in November! He's going outside!" Romney said to cheers from the crowd. "I can change Washington, I will change Washington! We'll get the job done from the inside! Republicans and Democrats will come together!"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-rips-obama-t-change-washington-204610881--election.html

 

[maxiep]

Is that why President Obama spends so much time golfing outside of Washington?

 

[jlprk]

Again, PapaG reads an inconsequential quote and starts a teeny-weeny thread. Then I say no one cares. Then the same 3 Republicans show up to say, I care about it.

This should have been combined with existing threads. No one can keep up with them all on a current basis when there are 40 new theads a day on the OT board.

 

[blazerboy30]

Again, PapaG reads an inconsequential quote and starts a teeny-weeny thread. Then I say no one cares.

It's inconsequential that your president, and the president you voted for, admits he can't change Washington from the inside after and entire campaign build on "change"?

 

[barfo]

Here's the transcript. It doesn't say what you are pretending it does.

Obviously the fact that we haven’t been able to change the tone in Washington is disappointing. We know now that as soon as I came into office you already had meetings among some of our Republican colleagues saying, how do we figure out how to beat the President. And I think that I’ve learned some lessons over the last four years, and the most important lesson I’ve learned is that you can’t change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside. That’s how I got elected, and that’s how the big accomplishments like health care got done, was because we mobilized the American people to speak out. That’s how we were able to cut taxes for middle-class families.

So something that I’d really like to concentrate on in my second term is being in a much more constant conversation with the American people so that they can put pressure on Congress to help move some of these issues forward. (Applause.)

barfo

 

[maxiep]

Nowhere does President Obama say that he is going to work to reach across the aisle. Nixon worked with a Democratic congress, so did Reagan and both Bushes. Clinton worked with a Republican congress. Yet it's too much for President Obama to reach accomodation with one house of congress? What happened to the smartest president ever?

 

[maxiep]

His characterization of how health care was done is hilarious and something out of bizarro world. The good people of Massachusetts elected a Republican to take the seat held by Ted Kennedy to stop it, and they found a way around. Nancy Pelosi told us we had to pass it to find out what's in it. In 2010, there was a landslide to attempt to overturn it.

Bottom line, this bill was written ages ago by Washington lobbyists and was pulled out of the Democrats' file cabinet. No one even read it. If there is an example of a more inside bill, I don't know what it could be.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Our government is such a hated laughingstock. It was easier to take when we were clearly the supreme nation and powerhouse.

Thanks Bill Clinton!

" [T]his agreement will create jobs for America. It will create jobs for labor union members."

"This is a hundred-to-nothing deal for America when it comes to the economic consequences."

Quotes from Bill Clinton regarding China's entry into the WTO and granting permanent normal trade relations with the U.S.

He also asserted that granting PNTR would "increase U.S. jobs and reduce our trade deficit." However, since China entered the WTO the trade deficit has skyrocketed and manufacturing jobs in the U.S. have plummeted.

 

[barfo]

His characterization of how health care was done is hilarious and something out of bizarro world. The good people of Massachusetts elected a Republican to take the seat held by Ted Kennedy to stop it, and they found a way around. Nancy Pelosi told us we had to pass it to find out what's in it. In 2010, there was a landslide to attempt to overturn it.

Bottom line, this bill was written ages ago by Washington lobbyists and was pulled out of the Democrats' file cabinet. No one even read it. If there is an example of a more inside bill, I don't know what it could be.

Have to agree with you there.

barfo