Hey, good news! Obama is going to have Geithner negotiate tax cuts for wealthy w repukes!

[playstation]

Obama makes nice with ascendant Republicans


President Obama told Republican leaders on Tuesday he should have reached out to them more over the first two years of his presidency.

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The president said Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew will meet regularly with four members of the Senate and House to reach a compromise on tax cuts for the wealthy, which the White House wants to end and Republicans want to extend.

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Obama’s White House overtures to Republicans came a day after his announcement of a two-year pay freeze for federal workers, which appeared to draw from the GOP playbook. Republicans praised that proposal while faulting the president for not going far enough. Liberal groups and unions, who worry Obama may pursue President Clinton’s strategy of working with Republicans on some of their ideas, blasted the president’s proposal.

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Gibbs confirmed Cantor’s remark to reporters about Obama telling the GOP that he did not reach out to it as much as he should have.

“I think the president acknowledged that he needed to do better and acknowledged that — rightly — that he would do his part,” Gibbs said at this daily briefing.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/131295-obama-makes-nice-with-ascendant-republicans

I was worried they were going to be extended, what was I thinking?

[ProSense]

1. I

heard.

[playstation]

2. You forgot the part where Obama acknowledged that he needed to do better

at reaching out to the pugs, should have reached out to them more.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. He will get his arm cut off if he reaches to Republicans!

Dems should be Dems - ditch the republicans!

[Bobbieo]

5. Then he'll really be known as "righty"! UGH!!!

[roguevalley]

8. check all the threads about how we pick on poor man all the

time with our expectations that he is supposed to be a dem and work for us, not the fascists.

[Skittles]

4. THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER

gawd

[playstation]

6. *

[awoke_in_2003]

7. "reach out"...

is that like "giving a guy a hand" (if you will pardon the innuendo)