{"id":10760,"date":"2013-08-02T02:25:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T09:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2013-08-02T03:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T10:26:58","slug":"obama-appears-to-be-on-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/02\/obama-appears-to-be-on-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Appears to be On Target"},"content":{"rendered":"

I keep hearing people express worry that Obama is going to cut a dysfunctional deal with Republicans, and blaming him for things over which he had no control, because he has to follow the law.  I could just ignore the law, like Bush did, but that’s the Republican way, not the American way.  Based on his meetings yesterday with the House and Senate, he appears to be on target with respect to his economic plans.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"2Obama\"President Obama put Republicans on notice Wednesday that he will reject any fiscal deal that only spares the Pentagon from budget cuts.<\/p>\n

Seeking party unity, Obama met with congressional Democrats in both chambers to prepare them for the budget battle that will greet them in the fall.<\/p>\n

His message was unequivocal: no negotiating with Republicans on a debt-ceiling increase and no reductions in the sequester cuts to defense unless domestic programs are spared as well<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“He’s not going to accept sequestration restoration for the military any greater than in domestic. He’s not going to negotiate on the debt ceiling,” Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking member of the Democratic leadership, told reporters after Senate Democrats met with Obama in a room off the Senate floor… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <The Hill<\/a>><\/p>\n

Photo credit: The News Journal<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

No arguments here.  Now, I can’t pretend to say that I actually know what he’s going to do, but I’ve called it right more often than wing-nuts, who claim that they do.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I keep hearing people express worry that Obama is going to cut a dysfunctional deal with Republicans, and blaming him for things over which he had no control, because he has to follow the law.  I could just ignore the law, like Bush did, but that’s the Republican way, not the American way.  Based on […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}