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babylonsister

(171,035 posts)
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 08:15 AM Jun 2014

"I'm not going to apologize for trying to do something while they're doing nothing."




http://politicalwire.com/archives/2014/06/27/quote_of_the_day.html

June 27, 2014

Quote of the Day


"I'm not going to apologize for trying to do something while they're doing nothing."

-- President Obama, in an interview with ABC News, on the lawsuit brought by House Republicans over his use of executive actions.

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"I'm not going to apologize for trying to do something while they're doing nothing." (Original Post) babylonsister Jun 2014 OP
I would have more sympathy if his "something" included any of the things I voted for... Demo_Chris Jun 2014 #1
CHAINED CPI!!!!11 tridim Jun 2014 #3
WORD! imthevicar Jun 2014 #7
+ Several Brazillion! Demeter Jun 2014 #14
I think a better, more accurate, phrasing of your statement would be ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #16
thank you for some realistic thinking heaven05 Jun 2014 #23
My favorite part is the "End the wars" error. jeff47 Jun 2014 #29
Only goes to show ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #30
Don't forget "renegotiate NAFTA"! Romulox Jun 2014 #19
That was during the campaign. Octafish Jun 2014 #20
Maybe if he shook his magic Presidential juju sticks harder...... Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #28
Who gives a crap about your sympathy? A lot good it will do when the Democratic Party doesn't have politicaljunkie41910 Jun 2014 #45
K & R. n/t FSogol Jun 2014 #2
Fortunately for us.. President Obama doesn't let the gop stop him from going Cha Jun 2014 #4
YES rtracey Jun 2014 #5
yes! you say it much better than i ever could nt hopemountain Jun 2014 #41
The GOP is a disgrace, they should quit en masse. Rex Jun 2014 #6
heartily agreed! n/t BlancheSplanchnik Jun 2014 #17
Same for the ones here. I want to say if we can just get them to disconnect from RWNJ TV & radio ffr Jun 2014 #18
DISGRACE is the right word ailsagirl Jun 2014 #44
K&R mcar Jun 2014 #8
potus should sue boner for doing nothing leftyohiolib Jun 2014 #9
Yes, and make a law against doing nothing. Harcourdt Fenton Mud Jun 2014 #11
i saw that episode leftyohiolib Jun 2014 #12
:D C Moon Jun 2014 #40
I think Boehner's suit is, unsurprisingly, ill-timed ... 1StrongBlackMan Jun 2014 #21
Excellent - maybe he's finally done reaching out to sociopaths. polichick Jun 2014 #10
He should petition the public for Congress to refund their pay! dmosh42 Jun 2014 #13
The GOP Conservative party today is not polynomial Jun 2014 #15
We need a class action suit against the do-nothing congress. NYtoBush-Drop Dead Jun 2014 #22
Exactly right. GoCubsGo Jun 2014 #25
hear hear! Iliyah Jun 2014 #32
^^^^^+++ nt. hopemountain Jun 2014 #42
and he shouldn't, ever heaven05 Jun 2014 #24
toon n2doc Jun 2014 #26
K & R Scurrilous Jun 2014 #27
Good for you, Mr. President! stage left Jun 2014 #31
K & R Iliyah Jun 2014 #33
"But above all, try something." pampango Jun 2014 #34
KnR! sheshe2 Jun 2014 #35
Tweet I just saw.. had to share it, she.. Cha Jun 2014 #39
I really like it when he refuses to take their crap anymore n/t eridani Jun 2014 #36
I swear, it is like the House is Obama's straight man sometimes. McCamy Taylor Jun 2014 #37
Get it through your thick numbskulls, GOP Blue Owl Jun 2014 #38
The statements & mark of a true Leader!! Thanks for all President Obama does!! hue Jun 2014 #43
 

Demo_Chris

(6,234 posts)
1. I would have more sympathy if his "something" included any of the things I voted for...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 08:26 AM
Jun 2014

Such as ending these wars, ending Free Trade rather than secretly expanding it, ending the drone wars, reigning in the NSA rather than running full tilt boogie with domestic spying, prosecuting Wall Street instead of publicly funding their fucking bonus checks, single payer rather than insurance mandates, raising the cap instead of chained CPI, etc...

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
16. I think a better, more accurate, phrasing of your statement would be ...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:48 AM
Jun 2014
I would have more sympathy if his "something" included any of the things I WOULD HAVE voted for...


As I doubt you, or anyone else, voted for President Obama to "end Free Trade, end the drone wars, reign in the NSA, or raise the cap instead of chained CPI", because, honestly, no/few of these items were on many folks' radar in 2012, and certainly not in 2009.
 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
23. thank you for some realistic thinking
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:20 AM
Jun 2014

and a lucid response to the I am beginning to believe that he has done his best within the limitations of our flawed and totally compromised political system.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)
29. My favorite part is the "End the wars" error.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 01:04 PM
Jun 2014

They claim they voted for Obama to end the wars, yet Obama explicitly said he was going to continue and probably escalate the Afghan war.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
20. That was during the campaign.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:04 AM
Jun 2014

Everyone knows politicians say one thing to get elected and do another.

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
45. Who gives a crap about your sympathy? A lot good it will do when the Democratic Party doesn't have
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 11:20 AM
Jun 2014

a viable candidate to run in 2016 because the armchair quarterbacks here at DU have trashed them all. Good luck trying to get Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren elected.

Cha

(296,867 posts)
4. Fortunately for us.. President Obama doesn't let the gop stop him from going
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 08:43 AM
Jun 2014

ahead with his EOs to help our country.. And, I have a feeling he really doesn't care about having anyone's "sympathy", either.

thank you, babylonsistah

 

rtracey

(2,062 posts)
5. YES
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 09:08 AM
Jun 2014

YES...good for you Mr. President..... you keep swinging at the heads of the GOP shits, Don't let them bring you down, and you keep trying to prevent them from destroying our country. A lot of people are on this site and not on your side, well from the first day you were president, you were looking out for this country. Yes, I have not agreed with all your decisions, all of your thought processes, like....
I believe ACA should have gone further into single payer health care. I believe we should have added more money to the original govt bailout, but all in all, you came into a crappy situation and have handled it well. I don't believe any president has had to put up with the blatant racism that you have endured.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
6. The GOP is a disgrace, they should quit en masse.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 09:12 AM
Jun 2014

The POTUS is doing everything he can to keep the country running and the GOP is doing everything they can to shut it down and hurt the American people.

I. Hate. Republicans.

ffr

(22,665 posts)
18. Same for the ones here. I want to say if we can just get them to disconnect from RWNJ TV & radio
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:02 AM
Jun 2014

they might begin thinking again on their own, instead of coming across as repeaters. Sometimes I just want to slap the shit out of them. I do occasionally laugh and shout out to them, SAY SOMETHING I HAVEN'T HEARD SOME OTHER RWNJ SAY TODAY ALREADY!!!

Sad really.

No
More
Republis.

 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
21. I think Boehner's suit is, unsurprisingly, ill-timed ...
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:04 AM
Jun 2014

and will likely blow up in the gop's face, at the must inopportune moment ... in the height of the 2104 election cycle.

With this suit, it will be nearly impossible to control the message as the Administration will be able to answer all the "over-reach" charges with: Everything is constitutionally permissible; but more, necessary, as congress has been unable/unwilling to act on important matters of state.

The response to the suit will read as a campaign ad for Democrats ... particularly, those running for a House seat, and to a lesser degree, a Senate seat. The response will highlight all the measures that Democrats/the Administration has put forward to deal with Jobs, the infrastructure, climate change, student debt, workers' wages, and all the other areas where President Obama has issued Executive Orders, only to be killed by the republican House, or "filibustered" in the Senate ... And Highlight what republicans have offered instead ... 50+ votes to repeal the ACA, anti-abortion bills, etc., but nothing to address the areas where Executive Orders were issued.

I can't think of a better way to get the obstruction message out to the electorate, than having to answer this suit.

polynomial

(750 posts)
15. The GOP Conservative party today is not
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 10:42 AM
Jun 2014

The GOP Conservative party today is not what Americans think it is. Especially after listening to Rush Limbaugh making his agreements for hours at a time day after day about who will have control the Congress this next election.

What is funny is that Limbaugh being a very heavy weight insider connected to Bush and company is always in that hateful rant towards liberals. The hateful rant is vividly illustrated by news commenters like Pirro at Fox news to affix blame for anything to President Obama as if Obama is acting to benefit his self.

From my view this type of reporting which is just hate and smear in a consciousness wickedly intended does impair normal political thinking. That is why many consider any Republican Party rant as more in being a Republican political crime syndicate. I do believe it is true.

The news media has been shielding Bush and Cheney from real truths for decades. Hiding the fact Bush and Cheney are very connected as friends and business partners to the very Al Qaeda Arabs we are fighting, the Bin Laden family. That used to be considered treason. Now the media is so in bed with corruption there no recourse but for the media to lie until the boomer generation dies.

This friendly profiteering with the enemy has transpired through decades of very connected political business partnerships with the Bin Laden family. The whole history of doing business with the enemy goes back to Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush financing the Nazi during World War two, profiteering from that war decades ago.

The media has brought America to where we are now by not fessing up to tell the truth about the Bush Cheney Republican Party criminal syndicate. It’s obvious this Republican Party political crime syndicate swindles, profiteers, makes false wars, introduces falsified documentation, and covers up corruption under the blanket of national security secrets. Worse far too many people vote for them.

NYtoBush-Drop Dead

(490 posts)
22. We need a class action suit against the do-nothing congress.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 11:13 AM
Jun 2014

Let's sue them to do their job instead of wasting taxpayer money.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
32. hear hear!
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 03:46 PM
Jun 2014

Class action suit "The United States of America" vs. GOP, et al., for the approximate sum of 25 Billion.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
34. "But above all, try something."
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 03:52 PM
Jun 2014
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

Cha

(296,867 posts)
39. Tweet I just saw.. had to share it, she..
Sat Jun 28, 2014, 12:58 AM
Jun 2014

The White House ✔ @WhiteHouse
Follow
"If you’re mad at me for helping people on my own then join me and we’ll do it together." —President Obama to Republicans and Congress
5:40 AM - 27 Jun 2014 630 Retweets 478 favorites

TOD

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
37. I swear, it is like the House is Obama's straight man sometimes.
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 09:51 PM
Jun 2014

Do you think they realize how good they make him look? Do you think anyone remember what happened to Newt in 1998? I hope not.

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