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My hope is that I can cooperate with Republicans, but obviously the kinds of compromises that are gonna be made will depend on what Capitol Hill looks like, you know, who's in charge.

If we've got Republicans in control of the House, that means that they will want to dictate the terms of those compromises.

Their desire to roll back health care reform, which they have already announced, their desire to roll back financial regulatory reform that they've already announced, that's going to be their agenda.
 
SmarterThanYou said:
and we'll see how willing you are to 'compromise' with that.
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I hate to be pessimistic, but I think we're in for a couple of years of full-blown gridlock.

I don't think Obama react like Clinton did after '94. I don't think he'll budge on any aspect of HC, just for starters. And I don't think the GOP will make any attempt to give him anything palatable...I think they'll want him to veto as much as possible, to try to defeat him & further their gains in '12.

Hope I'm wrong, though...
 
Onceler said:
I hate to be pessimistic, but I think we're in for a couple of years of full-blown gridlock.

I don't think Obama react like Clinton did after '94. I don't think he'll budge on any aspect of HC, just for starters. And I don't think the GOP will make any attempt to give him anything palatable...I think they'll want him to veto as much as possible, to try to defeat him & further their gains in '12.

Hope I'm wrong, though...
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nothing wrong with gridlock, in my mind.
 
Over the last two years we have made progress, but clearly too many Americans have not felt that progress yet, and they told us that yesterday, and as president, I take responsibility for that.

People are frustrated.

They are deeply frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery and the opportunities they hope for their children and their grandchildren.

Yesterday's vote confirmed what I have heard from folks all across America.

Now, I am not recommending for every future president that they take a shellacking like I did last night.

I am sure there are easier ways to learn these lessons, but I do think that this is a growth process and an evolution.

I told John Boehner and Mitch McConnell last night I am very eager to sit down with members of both parties and figure out how we can move forward together.

I am not suggesting this will be easy.
 
Some election nights are more fun than others.

Some are exhilarating, some are humbling.

It feels bad.

It’s hard, and I take responsibility for it in a lot of ways.

It underscores for me that I've got to do a better job, just like everybody else in Washington does.

There is an inherent danger in being in the White House and being in the bubble.

The responsibilities of this office are so enormous, and so many people are depending on what we do.

In the rush of activity sometimes, we lose track of the ways that we connected with folks that got us here in the first place.

As I told John Boehner and Mitch McConnell last night, I am very eager to sit down with members of both parties and figure out how we can move forward together.
 
Damocles said:
There is if you want to roll back any portion of the HC debacle.
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thats going to be democrat gridlock....now...the dems will likely be the parthy of no...hopefully the republicans get serious and either start producing some good legislation or dismantling bad legislation like the h/c law
 
It's an ugly mess when it comes to process.

That is something that really affected how people viewed the outcome.

We'd be misreading the election if we thought that the American people want to see us for the next two years re-litigate arguments that we had over the last two years.

In these budget discussions, the key is to be able to distinguish between stuff that isn't adding to our growth, isn't an investment in our future, and those things that are absolutely necessary for us to be able to increase job growth in the future.

What the American people want is for us to mix and match ideas, figure out those areas where we can agree on, move forward on those, disagree without being disagreeable on those areas that we can't agree on.

This is a growth process and an evolution, and the relationship that I've had with the American people is one that built slowly, peaked at this incredible high, and then during the course of the last two years, as we've together gone through some very difficult times, has gotten rockier and tougher.

That is something that I regret, but I think the outcome was a good one.
 
Yurt said:
thats going to be democrat gridlock....now...the dems will likely be the parthy of no...hopefully the republicans get serious and either start producing some good legislation or dismantling bad legislation like the h/c law
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Nice to see you finally admit that the GOP has been the party of no....
 
Yurt said:
thats going to be democrat gridlock....now...the dems will likely be the parthy of no...hopefully the republicans get serious and either start producing some good legislation or dismantling bad legislation like the h/c law
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All of it?
 
Every election, regardless of who wins or who loses, in our democracy the power rests not with those of us in elected office but those who we have the privilege to serve.

People are frustrated.

I've got to take responsibility in terms of making sure that I make clear to the business community, as well as to the country, that the most important thing we can do is to boost and encourage our business sector and make sure that they're hiring.
 
Onceler said:
I hate to be pessimistic, but I think we're in for a couple of years of full-blown gridlock.

I don't think Obama react like Clinton did after '94. I don't think he'll budge on any aspect of HC, just for starters. And I don't think the GOP will make any attempt to give him anything palatable...I think they'll want him to veto as much as possible, to try to defeat him & further their gains in '12.

Hope I'm wrong, though...
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Probably not wrong. Mitch McConnell: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president”.

Screw the issues.
 
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