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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEnergized Obama Aims To Start 2015 On His Own Terms
Energized Obama Aims To Start 2015 On His Own Terms
AP | By By JOSH LEDERMAN and NEDRA PICKLER
Posted: 01/03/2015 9:55 am EST Updated: 01/03/2015 1:59 pm EST
HONOLULU (AP) President Barack Obama plans new steps to help more Americans buy a home and attend college, part of a 2015 agenda he hopes can build on the postelection momentum from high-profile moves on immigration and Cuba.
His approach for the new year appears to look straight past newly emboldened Republicans who take full control of Congress on Tuesday.
Fresh from a two-week Hawaiian vacation, the president was readying executive actions and legislative proposals to start promoting right away while advisers and speechwriters flesh out the broad themes that Obama wants to emphasis in his State of the Union address on Jan. 20. It will be his seventh since taking office, but his first before a Congress entirely in GOP hands.
In a sign of their divergent paths, Obama was heading out of Washington on Wednesday just as the new Congress was settling in. He plans stops in Michigan, Arizona and Tennessee aimed at highlighting how his own economic policies were contributing to the country's recovery.
Obama, expected back in Washington on Sunday, has appeared energized by the end-of-the-year action on immigration policy and Cuban relations, suggesting continued presidential relevance despite a political landscape dramatically altered by deep Democratic losses on Election Day.
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babylonsister
Jan 2015
OP
The GOP's are asking if Obama will work with Congress and get something accomplished,
Thinkingabout
Jan 2015
#8
Nah. The gop doesn't want to get anything accomplished while Obama is Prez.
babylonsister
Jan 2015
#10
I hope he was at least able to get some quality R&R! Being the hardest working man in DC ain't easy.
Tarheel_Dem
Jan 2015
#17
msongs
(67,413 posts)1. TPP nt
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)2. YSYOT
#yawnstartyourownthread
sheshe2
(83,789 posts)11. LFAGCBBS
#laughingforagreatcomebackbsis
love ya!
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)12. Hahaha!
sheshe2
(83,789 posts)13. Happy New Year!
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)14. Same to you
and thank you for all you do here! You are terrific, and I love you.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)16. !!!
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)4. Nah, comic relief! A repeating pattern! nt
zappaman
(20,606 posts)5. OMG!
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)7. True?
Cha
(297,297 posts)6. KICK
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)8. The GOP's are asking if Obama will work with Congress and get something accomplished,
My question to Congress is whether they will decide to work at all in 2015. They have been a do nothing Congress, Obama has been issuing EO's so he is doing something, it is on Congress to stay in session long enough to debate some bills. It used to be debates and amendments and they just stopped doing this.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)10. Nah. The gop doesn't want to get anything accomplished while Obama is Prez.
But I hope I'm wrong. Maybe some grown-ups might show themselves.
Who am I kidding? That veto pen might become really powerful.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)9. KnR. Looks like shave-ice time in that photo!
So glad he could get out of Foggy Bottom for some energizing sunshine and trade winds -- a very good attitude adjustment scheme.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)15. "The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword"
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)17. I hope he was at least able to get some quality R&R! Being the hardest working man in DC ain't easy.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)18. Right on, Mr. President!
I wish him well!