{"id":3696,"date":"2010-12-23T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2010-12-23T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:15:59","slug":"obamas-lame-duck-session-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/obamas-lame-duck-session-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Lame Duck Session Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"23Obama\" border=\"0\" alt=\"23Obama\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/23Obama.jpg\" width=\"264\" height=\"148\" \/>As usual, I found things in Obama\u2019s press conference with which I agree and those with which I don\u2019t.&#160; I still think Republicans caved on START and the 9\/11 Responders bill, because they never intended to do otherwise unless Democrats surrendered again.&#160; I still think that the Republicans that caved on DADT did so because support for it in their states is so strong that they feared to do otherwise.&#160; I still thing Republicans would have caved on the tax bonus for millionaires and billionaires, had not Obama surrendered first by proposing the Tax Capitulation Act.&#160; I do not think that the Tax Capitulation Act made the rest possible.&#160; That said, in the last two years Obama has accomplished more sweeping legislation on more areas than any President since FDR, with the caveat that most of that legislation fell far short of what I wanted to see accomplished.&#160; In the press conference, the ivory tower Obama was back and the campaign Obama, so evident in DADT speech, was nowhere to be seen.&#160; Here is the entire 30 minute video, or of you prefer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2010\/12\/22\/news-conference-president\" target=\"_blank\">click here for the transcript of Obama&#8217;s press conference<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p> <object width=\"480\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"282828\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/24673\/config.xml&amp;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&amp;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" flashvars=\"config=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/xml\/video\/24673\/config.xml&#038;path_to_plugins=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/default\/modules\/wh_multimedia\/wh_jwplayer\/plugins&#038;path_to_player=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/all\/modules\/swftools\/shared\/flash_media_player\/player5x2.swf&#038;share_url=http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/photos-and-video\/video\/2010\/12\/22\/presidential-press-conference-a-historic-congressional-session\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, I found things in Obama\u2019s press conference with which I agree and those with which I don\u2019t.&#160; I still think Republicans caved on START and the 9\/11 Responders bill, because they never intended to do otherwise unless Democrats surrendered again.&#160; I still think that the Republicans that caved on DADT did so because <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/obamas-lame-duck-session-press-conference\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","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\/3696","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=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}