"Obama’s annoyance with Congress boils over"

[applegrove]

Obama’s annoyance with Congress boils over

By Dan Balz at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-annoyance-with-congress-boils-over/2014/07/02/fe3ee72e-0206-11e4-8572-4b1b969b6322_story.html

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“Republicans in Congress, they’re patriots, they love their country, they love their families,” he said from the Key Bridge. “They just have a flawed theory of the economy that they can’t seem to get past. .?.?. That’s their worldview. I’m sure they sincerely believe it. It’s just not accurate. It does not work.”

The object of Obama’s anger Monday was the stalled immigration reform bill, which has been bottled up in the House because of divisions among Republicans. The influx of children on the U.S.-Mexico border has created a fresh immigration crisis for him to deal with. Meanwhile, he wants administration officials to draft proposals for him to act on his own to deal with the overall problem.

On Tuesday, his unhappiness was directed at the lack of progress on legislation to replenish the Highway Trust Fund, which is set to run out of money later this year. There is a bipartisan proposal in the Senate from Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) that would provide a permanent solution.

The Corker-Murphy bill calls for increasing the gasoline tax by 6 cents a gallon in each of the next two years and then indexing the tax to inflation, with offsets to keep the measure revenue-neutral. The administration has proposed a shorter-term solution, not a long-term fix. For now, nothing is moving, although the trust fund long has been supported by Republicans and Democrats.




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1. Sorry, Mr. President. They are NOT patriots & they hate you more than they

love their country. That is what you are dealing with. I am so sad and angry about that.

[applegrove]

4. Don't you think he is appealing the the low information voter when he says that. He doesn't want to

alienate them as he asks for them to support him.

[catbyte]

5. He has already alienated the Republican, low information voter by the amount of melanin

in his skin.

[applegrove]

7. But some of them don't see themsleves as anti-american or racist. I'm talking about the low

information voter who may be waking up to all the issues, not the Tea Party base.

[Rex]

2. You can be nice and even flattering, but glad you noticed they are a bunch

of bums that seem to have their heads back in the 18th century. The GOP is an obsolete party not qualified to run a Baskin Robins. Just one, in the desert. They would somehow catch the place on fire and sue each other.

[msongs]

3. took him 6 years to recognize what we at DU knew the day of his inauguration lol nt

[liberal N proud]

6. Republicans don't love their country - they are consumed by hate and GREED!