Obama Drops The Reality Hammer On Republicans, “Nobody’s Stopping You From Passing Bills”

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Obama Drops The Reality Hammer On Republicans, “Nobody’s Stopping You From Passing Bills”
By: Jason Easley
Sunday, November, 9th, 2014, 12:37 pm


President Obama is turning up the heat on the incoming Republican congressional majority by bluntly telling that nobody is stopping them from passing bills on issues like immigration.

Video @ link~

When asked about immigration on Face The Nation, President Obama said,

The minute that they pass a bill that deals with the problems of immigration reform, I will sign it and it supersedes whatever actions I take, and I’m encouraging them to do so. On parallel track we’re going to be implementing an executive action, but if in fact a bill gets passed, nobody’s going to be happier than me to sign it. Because that means it will be permanent rather than temporary.

So,they have the ability, the authority, the control to supercede anything I do through my authority by carrying out their functions over there. And if in fact it’s true that they want to pass a bill, they’ve got good ideas, nobody’s stopping them, and the minute they do it, the minute I sign that bill, what I’ve done goes away.

Beginning in January, congressional Republicans won’t have Harry Reid to blame for their obstruction anymore. Boehner and McConnell are already blaming President Obama’s executive action for their refusal to pass an immigration bill, but the new political reality is that there is nothing stopping them for passing an immigration bill.

In fact, there will be nothing stopping from passing bills to do what the American people want. Voters overwhelming supporting raising the minimum wage, but McConnell and Boehner have already said that it won’t be happening. The same thing with infrastructure spending and other broadly popular ideas.

Immigration reform is just one example of the new world that Republicans will be entering into when they take the majority. The days of hiding their obstruction are over. Their butts are on the line now, and they have a small window to either put up or face losing their new Senate majority in 2016.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. So, put up or shut up, Republicans!

[KingCharlemagne]

8. I prefer STFU! :) - nt

[BlueCaliDem]

2. In a world where the M$M isn't all pro-GOP propaganda every which way they can muster,

what the president said is absolutely true - Republicans have to either put up or shut up.

But in the United States where corporations prefer Republicans controlling government and where corporations OWN all news media, all McConnell and Boehner have to do is block any immigration reform, any bills to help your average American, and anything else that might strengthen our meager social safety net, and then turn around where M$M mics and cameras are on the ready and just say "The president and his Party are blocking all meaningful legislation!" and they'll get away with it, unquestioned, just as they've been getting away with it these past six years.

Unless and until the American people accept and understand that our Fourth Estate is dead and buried, and that they've been taken over by corporate propaganda outlets posing as news media, Republicans can continue, unchallenged, outright lying to the American people and these people will either not vote or vote for the very Party that's out to destroy their quality life in favor of millionaires and billionaires and more corporate power.

This is the sad reality of our country at this moment. In order to break through the well-funded propaganda machine, we need candidates who are charismatic, interesting, and have the ability to force the M$M to report on them in order to get the message out. Republican candidates have no such threshold, but it's one that Democrats are now forced to abide by. Disheartening but true.

[Fred Sanders]

3. In other words we need a slightly more polished Alan Grayson?

[BlueCaliDem]

5. Hadn't thought about it, but yes! A slightly more polished Grayson is what it takes

for any Democrat to finally get decent coverage in our M$M.

[jen63]

10. That would be Sherrod Brown.

The man needs a lot more air time!

[BlueCaliDem]

12. That's the problem. M$M won't give more air time to a truth-teller like Senator Brown

no matter how outrageous he is in order to get attention unless it's to embarrass this president or besmirch the Democratic Party in any which way because that harms their chances of getting an all-Republican, anti-American, anti-democratic government. And to be fair, Senator Sherrod Brown has calmed down considerably since coming to the Senate.

[jen63]

16. I don't ever remember him being

that way. Just speaking truth to power. I think he's definitely more polished and likable than Grayson. We need to raise his national profile and visibility. He and Warren or Sanders would be a powerhouse ticket if he became more visible. It's sad that our media has come to this.

[BlueCaliDem]

20. Sherrod Brown, as U.S. Rep., was far more fiery than Sherrod Brown as U.S. Senator. I saw the change

almost immediately when he won his election as Senator. I guess they're told to "refine" their overall behavior the moment they enter the Senate - which is supposed to be "the deliberative body" of Congress.

I hope Sherrod Brown will run in the primaries. He, Warren, and Sanders are Democratic powerhouses (I know Bernie isn't a Dem, but he embraces the original Democratic platform), but M$M will tear them apart for every tiny mistake they might make while completely ignoring their message, all the while ignoring, even defending, the GOP candidates' foibles. That said, those three Senators can hold their own and give as good as they get.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

23. Sherrod Brown has good hair.

And he's cute, as his wife said.

(Totally superficial and vacuous comment here from a female voter)

[BlueCaliDem]

29. Indeed he does!

But I admire his brain under that great crop of hair the most.

By the way? On DU, we have an allowance of five vacuous comments a week so have at it!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

44. Oh, hey, I didn't know there was a limit!

I swear, every day I feel like I'm a twelve-year-old girl with a crush on the Beatles. Except now the crushes are guys in their sixties. Maybe it means I'm still a teenager on the inside? Or the eyeballs still work?

Lewis Black has a routine where he was at a party in Hollywood and Paul McCartney winked at him from across the room. Lewis said, "And it was then that I knew I had the heart of a twelve-year-old girl."

[jen63]

33. He's cute and he has charisma

along with the good hair. Connie is a powerhouse in her own right also.

[jen63]

25. They're our only hope

for true liberalism. My only fear is that Brown isn't well known enough. If he would lose big he may be done for as a serious candidate. Sanders and Warren are more widely known. I don't have a problem with Sanders at all. If he runs it'll have to be on the Democratic ticket. He said as much. I guess I hope they all get in. It'll make for a much better outcome.

[BlueCaliDem]

30. I don't know about that, but I know they can fire up the Millennials to get out and vote.

Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would do that very well, and once people hear Sherrod Brown speak on the issues - and he puts that fire in his words - they'll LOVE him. Now...how do we get pro-GOP U.S. media to pay attention when they only want to report negatively about any and all Democrats? I really don't have a clue.

[jen63]

32. That is the problem isn't it?

[mythology]

31. I would guess that any change in behavior is more due to electoral considerations

A House district, especially in the current overly gerrymandered districts, has a much different electorate than a state as a whole.

His district has been a Democratic seat since the 1976 election. That's a pretty safe seat. Ohio as a state on the other hand is not so reliably a Democratic bastion.

[KingCharlemagne]

9. LOL! Hah! Howard Dean could do it, I think - nt

[Mr.Bill]

4. They'll pass lots of bills.

And every single one of them will have a provision attached to it to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

[el scorcho]

6. and all of them will be veto'd

so Boehner and McConnell will accomplish exactly zero.

[BlueCaliDem]

14. Exactly. The might've won in last week's elections, but they didn't get 2/3rd majorities

meaning, they can't override President Obama's vetoes.

[Hulk]

7. Will THIS message ever get heard...

except on progressive/liberal web sites? THIS is the problem. Piss poor coverage of what this President is saying. fox-nonsense will broadcast a few of his speeches, but then morons like vannity, blondie, etc. interrupt his speech and talk right over him with their sarcasm and snide remarks. When they've had enough, or feel threatened with what he is trying to portray, they cut away and go into "smear-mode".

THIS is our problem. When he does address the nation with important messages, like this; nobody hears but we few on the web.

[dickthegrouch]

11. I think that was the strategy all along

*WE* have now given them enough rope to hang themselves with in the next two years.

I am hoping that things will be so obviously worse that the Dems can come swooping back in with a huge majority to achieve what's actually needed in 2016.

The Good Old Pricks in the Republican party won't be able to demonstrate anything other than a worsening of everything.

HOWEVER, *WE* dems have to make sure that the electorate is FULLY aware of how good things are right now in terms of unemployment, health care, equal marriage rights, etc. It may be expensive, but it will be much more expensive to let the GOP win in 2016.

[Major Hogwash]

37. You may be right.

The Republicans are the ones who have been whining that they were the ones being obstructed for the last 6 years, so now that they have control of both Houses of Congress, let's see what they do with it.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
But, give a 4-year old a lot of power, and he doesn't know what the fuck to do first!!

McConnell is screwed.
Immigration reform is going to be the big issue in the next 2 years, and if the Republicans don't do something that can get signed in to law by President Obama, they can kiss the 2016 elections good-bye.

[kentuck]

13. He needs to repeat this over and over

...and over.

[IkeRepublican]

19. Damn right

Sick and tired of him hopping over to something else. He needs to stay home, go public as much as possible to cut through the Fox/Repuke TMZ and grill their fucking asses publicly - repeatedly.



"Get 'em on the ground, twist in the spikes and show them no mercy. Sudden death, gentlemen. That's how they (Democrats) play it and we will too." - Richard Nixon, 1967 (to campaign assistant Bob Haldeman)

Obama is FAR overdue to the do the same.

* Oliver Stone deliberately fucked up that quote, put it in 1971 and aimed it at the cabinet.

[mcar]

26. Yes because presidents should not be

"Hopping around." WTF?

[bloomington-lib]

15. If republicans were smart, they would pass some of the bills dems would have liked,

but take credit for it themselves. Pass an immigration bill along with strong infrastructure spending and I think they would have a decent chance in two years. Americans are all about the what are you doing now than what you have done in the past.

[kentuck]

17. No. That means they would have to count the votes in their caucus..

They don't have time.

[WinkyDink]

40. See now, it's your opening dependent clause that is the real point. IF.

[world wide wally]

18. There is an old expression that goes "if you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with

Bullshit.
This will be the Republican approach in the coming years just as it has been for the past few. They will pass outrageous bills that force the President to veto them. Then when they refuse to act on bills that are actually beneficial to people, and 2016 approaches, they will point to Obama and the Dems as the obstructionists. With the help of the M$M people will be thoroughly baffled once again.

[WinkyDink]

41. Never heard it. But I'd amend it to make the first clause alliterative, 'cause that's how I roll.

"blind them with brilliance"

[world wide wally]

45. I like it better too!

[Voice for Peace]

21. But there is something stopping them.. they have no idea what they are doing.

Paralysis on all fronts except obstruction, criticism, ebola and war frenzy.

[spanone]

22. my prediction. they won't do shit. blame it on Obama. will be supported by a willing media.

so it goes.

[ReRe]

24. I can't wait to watch them actually...

... work! Question is, can the Legislature write something PO can in good conscience sign? PO is a speed reader, don't 'ya know? If there's a little pickle in the banana pudding, he'll find it.

[Historic NY]

27. Limpballs doesn't want them to govern.

from the mouth of their own asses....


http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/11/05/Rush-Limbaugh-GOP-Elected-Not-to-Govern-Work-Together-But-Stop-Barack-Obama

[freshwest]

28. Time to quit whining and try something unknown to them: Work!

[Major Hogwash]

38. Great post!!

They think they are so clever by pointing at someone else and saying "he's to blame".

They got nothing!

They even got nothing more now than they did last year when they shut down the government!!

[WinkyDink]

42. GOP: Guilty Old Party.

[rhett o rick]

34. I was hoping that Pres Obama would stand in their way, but I guess he cleared that up.

"nobody is stopping them from passing bills on issues like immigration. " And the TPP, fracking, the Keystone pipeline, and on and on.

[BrotherIvan]

35. Thanks, reading this thread felt like opposite day

Where is the mighty veto pen we've been hearing about all week? Because if one takes words at their meaning, then "nobody is stopping them" means just that. And the fairly clear statement that the bills they pass he will sign. And for that we are treated to a whole string of applause? Huh? Yeah pass those laws Republicans, we double dog dare you! Because bipartisanship I suppose.

[rhett o rick]

47. If Obama says "nobody is stopping them" it must mean, including him. nm

[FSogol]

46. It is called, "calling their bluff." You should probably avoid playing poker.

Just saying.

[Major Hogwash]

36. The Jobs Bill that Boehnor passed last year was great!

No, wait a minute, that wasn't a Jobs Bill that Boehnor passed, it was just a chili fart!

[WinkyDink]

39. Bwahaha! LOVE that headline! Pick up the gauntlet, mofos!

[B Calm]

43. If Obama doesn't stop them, who will?