LOL!!!-President Obama’s Message To House Republicans Talking Impeachment: Bring It On

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President has called you weasels out by saying:

" Well, I don’t think that’s very serious.....I am not particularly worried about it..."

Your move punks.........



During his CNN interview President Obama not only shrugged off Republican claims of an imperial presidency, but he appeared to challenge the Republicans who are talking lawsuits and impeachment to bring it on.

TAPPER: And let’s talk about House Republicans, because – and – and Senate Republicans. There has been a large contingency of Republicans critical of your new approach. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, who might run for president, calls this the imperial presidency. And in the House, there is this thing, as you know, called The Stop Act. They want to rein in what you’re trying to do.
How do you respond to that?

OBAMA: Well, I don’t think that’s very serious. I mean, the truth of the matter is, is that every president engages in executive actions. In fact, we’ve been very disciplined and sparing in terms of the executive actions that we have taken. We make sure that we’re doing it within the authority that we have under statute. But I am not going to make an apology for saying that if I can help middle class families and folks who are working hard to try to get in the middle class do a little bit better, then I’m going to do it.

And, you know, I think it’s – it’s a tough argument for the other side to make that not only are they willing to do an – not do anything, but they also want me not to do anything in which case I think the American people who’s, right now, estimation of Congress is already pretty low might might have an even lower opinion.

TAPPER: The Stop Act is not something you take seriously?

OBAMA: I – I am not particularly worried about it.


Transcript:

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/30/just-released-cnns-jake-tapper-exclusive-interview-with-president-obama/

[Skittles]

1. he is so diplomatic

you just KNOW he thinks they're a bunch of buffoons

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3. Heh, they don't even know that

they have been cut and are now slowly bleeding......LOL!

[Skittles]

5. oh yes

they're so used to the idiocy of their teabagging dittomasters that nuanced, measured responses fly right over their heads

[longship]

13. I think the term "presidential" comes to mind.

That's a term that the GOP has forgotten.

Their last chance (2001-2008) was more "buffoon" than "presidential".

[Skittles]

14. next to Dubya, Obama looks like Einstein

yes INDEED

[tinymontgomery]

2. How long till Priebus

How long till Piebus comes out and says no republics are allowed to talk to the President till
he apologizes for saying the American people don't think much of them?

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6. Once he gets back his riding boots,..

..they're in for repairs......clink, clink....pop!

[okaawhatever]

4. Obama's message to Congress, they might not like me too much, but they hate you. nt

[bigdarryl]

7. I watched that clip and no where did he say bring it on

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11. The article header is an expression of President Obama's message

to House Republicans who are voicing impeachment threats to 'bring it on'.

[mindwalker_i]

8. I think the majority or people understand who's being imperial

And especially after Lewinsky, they pull something like this and i will end them.

On the other hand, I'd really like to see our side bring lawsuits against Republicans. We've let way too much stuff go.

[JaneQPublic]

9. Yep, the Big Dawg's approval rating spiked after impeachment. (nt)

[bearssoapbox]

10. .

[awoke_in_2003]

12. This is how polite adults say...

"I double dog dare you"

[bvf]

17. And isn't it great to imagine

those being double-dared ending up with their collective tongue stuck to the figurative flag pole!

Let 'em try, and then cry, "Stuck! Stuck! STUCK!!"

This should be fun to watch.

[awoke_in_2003]

18. He should break prototol...

and go straight to the triple dog dare

[JoePhilly]

15. Please proceed, idiots.

[Whisp]

19. +++

so many idiots, so little time.

[BrainMann1]

16. We got your back Prez!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

20. kick !! rec!! wisdom, humility.

And ....welll.....people here taking up torches and pitchforks recently, screeching "F him, that F-ing F" against him....
Reactionary anger, mob mentality, hubris.

Ok, I'm about to get very undiplomatic.

[japple]

22. Yeah. You got that right, Blanche. Although the pitchfork mob where I work

has been very quiet lately about Benghazi, etc. and they were LOUD, very LOUD earlier. And the worshipers of Ayn Rand don't seem to know who she is these days. I think the worm has turned.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. well I'm glad to hear that!!!

DU is a very small subset of the nation.
Luckily, cliques here are even smaller.

[japple]

24. Smilie, :-)

[sheshe2]

30. Wait Wut!?

Did I miss something the last few days? People took up pitchforks and torches!@#$%^*&()* No frickin way would a member of DU say that Blanche!

No way would the people of DU...DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND say that kind of stuff. Ya must have been away in fr**per ville. No wait Margaritaville! Wait Wut. I think I am getting confused.

Blanche!

[japple]

21. Tapper looks like a shar pei or a pug: cocked head/wrinkley brow. I

used to think he was a good journalist.

[red dog 1]

25. "Ted Cruz, who might run for president, calls this the imperial presidency"

Oh Lord, please let Ted Cruz be the Republican nominee in 2016.

What a gift to the Democrats THAT would be!

[BlueStreak]

27. It is like Gingrich calling him "the food stamp President"

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In the end, it is our job to make sure that facts really matter. There hasn't been a single law or executive action under Obama that changed the standards and qualification limits for SNAP (AKA "food stamps&quot until the GOP made the recent cuts. The reason more people are on SNAP is that more people are living in poverty, and the reason for that is the income continues to skew toward the top 0.1%. Those are the facts. The facts matter.

And Obama has done fewer executive orders per year than any modern President. That is the fact, no matter what Cruz wants to say. We have to make sure that the facts catch up to these irresponsible charlatans.

[red dog 1]

28. + 1000

[BlueStreak]

26. First, it is "contingent" not "contingency"

"There has been a large contingency of Republicans"

noun: contingent; 1. a group of people united by some common feature, forming part of a larger group.

I wish people who make a living using the language would take a little time to learn some of the most basic elements of the language.

But I digress. I agree with what Obama said. I wish he would include in these discussions the excellent progress that has been made on energy. Conservation efforts, many of which started before he took office, have us REDUCING our electricity demand (slightly) each year -- not growing. That is fantastic. And here's another fact that I don't recall him ever mentioning. In the last 2 years, wind and solar have been the largest source of net new energy. Some coal plants have been shut down or converted to more environmentally friendly natural gas.

This is not business as usual. We really are in a new era and Obama shouldn't be ashamed to talk about that. Hell, even BP, Exxon and Shell are peeing their pants talking about how committed they are to renewable, carbon-free energy. Sorely our President ought to be able to say a few words about this.

I'll give him credit for at least including a little fo this in the grab-bag of buzzwords that is the SOTU speech, but the interview shown in the OP was a perfect opportunity to get real about this. Here are the comments from the SOTU:

Now, it's not just oil and natural gas production that's booming; we're becoming a global leader in solar too.

Every four minutes another American home or business goes solar, every panel pounded into place by a worker whose job can't be outsourced. Let's continue that progress with a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to fossil fuel industries that don't need it so we can invest more in fuels of the future that do. (Cheers, applause.)

And even as we've increased energy production, we've partnered with businesses, builders and local communities to reduce the energy we consume. When we rescued our automakers, for example, we worked with them to set higher fuel efficiency standards for our cars. In the coming months I'll build on that success by setting new standards for our trucks so we can keep driving down oil imports and what we pay at the pump.

And taken together, our energy policy is creating jobs and leading to a cleaner, safer planet. Over the past eight years the United States has reduced our total carbon pollution more than any other nation on Earth. (Applause.)

But we have to act with more urgency because a changing climate is already harming western communities struggling with drought and coastal cities dealing with floods. That's why I directed my administration to work with states, utilities and others to set new standards on the amount of carbon pollution our power plants are allowed to dump into the air.

The shift -- (applause) -- the shift to a cleaner energy economy won't happen overnight, and it will require some tough choices along the way.

But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. (Applause.) And when our children's children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world, with new sources of energy, I want us to be able to say yes, we did.

[red dog 1]

29. .."the debate is settled ..Climate change is a fact"

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Amen to that.

Many of those Republican tea bagger obstructionists in the House don't even believe in "climate change."

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31. "The Stop Act".. brawaaaaaaaaaaaaaa That's all they do..