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Jan 28
2010
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Matthew Brusky, Political Director
President Obama spoke this afternoon to the House Republican retreat in Baltimore . It was a very revealing encounter. Obama continued his year-long pitch for a bi-partisan approach to confronting America’s problems. However, he also called out Republicans for being combative with him and agitating their own base. Obama commented:
"So all I'm saying is, we've gotta close the gap a little bit between the rhetoric and the reality. I'm not suggesting that we're gonna agree on everything, whether it's on health care or energy or what have you. But if the way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives, what happens is you guys don't have a lot of room to negotiate with me. The fact is that many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable with your own base in your own party. You've given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion because what you've told your constituents is this guy is doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's gonna destroy America."
This analysis of the GOP’s political reality is accurate. Hopefully, it was not discovered by Obama and Congressional Democrats too late for health care reform. If Obama listens to David Axelrod and leads it won’t be too late. My concern is he will keep following Rahm Emanuel and put health care on the back burner.
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