Obama reminds GOP in stimulus meeting: “I won”
posted at 2:19 pm on January 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
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The golden age of bipartisanship beginneth.
During a morning meeting with congressional leaders from both parties, President Obama acknowledged the philosophical differences between his stimulus package and the Republican plan – but, sources familiar with the conversation said, Obama then noted: “I won.”…
But perhaps taking a cue from Obama’s “I won” line when Democrats were asked if they were concerned about Republicans blocking the package, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had a swift one-word answer: “No.”
Vintage O: Always willing to hear the other side out, never willing to actually vote with them. Here’s where we pause a moment to daydream about what a difference 45 Senate seats would have made instead of 41, then come to our senses and realize that it would have made no difference at all. The GOP’s simply not going to obstruct Hopenchange this early, when he has this much goodwill from the public, when the economic circumstances are this dire, and when even conservative economists are endorsing some sort of stimulus.
Just how rancid is this crap sandwich, anyway? Even David Brooks thinks it’s too much of a liberal Christmas tree:
This $825 billion bill has to be passed within weeks. There’s no time for fundamental rethinking or new approaches. Instead, there’s a sloppy profusion of 152 different appropriations — off-the-shelf ideas that mostly create costlier versions of the status quo.
The committee staff took the kernel of President Obama’s vision — infrastructure programs to create jobs — and surrounded it with an undisciplined sprawl of health, education, entitlement and other spending. There’s money for nurse training, Medicare, Head Start, boatyard support, home weatherization and so on. Eleven of the programs in the bill account for the vast majority of the actual job creation. The rest may be worthy or not, but they have little to do with stimulus. The total package is so diffuse, it costs $223,000 to create a single job.
McConnell and Boehner put on a brave face after the meeting but there’s simply nothing they can do. Skip ahead to the end for an inkling of the super-secret plan to jumpstart the economy with hundreds of millions of dollars for contraception.
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Obama better watch out…..he says I won now…
But the Republicans maybe able to say in a few years, It’s your fault, and time for a change….
Palin 2012….
dec5 on January 23, 2009 at 6:09 PM
After the 8 year hubris-driven disaster America has just endured at the fumbling hands of Dubya, the comments about Obama’s “arrogance” are just too ironically funny.
Constantine on January 23, 2009 at 6:09 PM
Good. So for every craptastic bill that comes up, the Republicans should vote no. Let the dems own everything.
Iblis on January 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM
After the 8 year hubris-driven disaster America has just endured at the fumbling hands of Dubya, the comments about Obama’s “arrogance” are just too ironically funny.
:lol this is after the disasterous Clinton administration who
paved the way for 9/11…and it looks like Obama is following
this already…
I doubt the Libs will find anything funny or to gloat about
when or if we get attacked again because of Obama policy.
dec5 on January 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Maybe he’s trying to appeal to Hispanics~ and McCain~ and really said:
“I, Juan.”
profitsbeard on January 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Selected not elected
signed,
ACORN
ClassicCon on January 23, 2009 at 6:30 PM
All the election of 2008 proved it’s really easy to make idiot voters out of ignorant people by promising them free stuff. Odummer didn’t win anything.
tarpon on January 23, 2009 at 6:37 PM
And my response would have been…
I respect that Mr. President, but I was elected to represent my constituents… based on what I ran on… and I will continue to do so…
Romeo13 on January 23, 2009 at 6:39 PM
The GOP [spineless damn fools all] should have told him, ‘If you are just going to do as you please then please do not waste our time. BTW, we also won.’
I’m forced to call Bull$hit! The very least they could do is to raise a stink that even the MSM couldn’t ignore. That would prove how little B. Hussein Obama is capable of working with members of the other party.
DannoJyd on January 23, 2009 at 6:42 PM
I’m waiting for the “I’m President-for-Life” declaration from “the winner.”
If he refuses to acknowledge the millions of people who did not vote for him — and, in many cases, voted for people with far different ideologies — he will be one unhappy puppy.
Or, if he, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of that corrupt, arrogant, unqualified crew persist, Osama Obama may be the second president in US history to preside over a dissolution of the Union….
MrScribbler on January 23, 2009 at 6:45 PM
Michelle O. did say that Barack would make us work. Well, I guess that the taxpaying serfs will have to foot the bill for perpetuity.
Somebody needs to directly ask Pelosi how long her great-great grandchildren will have to labor in order to pay off this debt.
onlineanalyst on January 23, 2009 at 6:47 PM
and yet the Republicans think we should kowtow more to the democrats and not even bother standing up because it isn’t “acceptable”
Bipartisanship is simply the democrats getting everything they want and dragging enough republicans to get the blame when it goes to hell
Defector01 on January 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Has 0 done any reading up on the Weimar Republic or Japan’s lost decade, by chance?
Have any of those idiots in Congress?
Anyways, I was listening to Sirius today and during the break the news announcer pretty much mocked the Republicans’ alternative:
“The Republicans’ alternative? Tax cuts,” he said, sounding amused by the idea. Jerk.
Rae on January 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Don’t forget the 600 mil to “prepare the country for Universal health care.” I kid you not. When’s the revolution going to happen?
jdawg on January 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM
He won. The country lost. Way to reach across the isle there Bomma.
johnnyU on January 23, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Brooks can take partial blame. Hack.
tmq on January 23, 2009 at 6:58 PM
So he won? Then he doesn’t need any GOP votes in Congress, right?
It’s so brilliant that it will succeed? Then he doesn’t need GOP votes for “cover, right”? Why even share the “credit”?
I wish the members of the GOP caucuses would grow some backbone. But most of them won’t.
Wethal on January 23, 2009 at 7:03 PM
Hey! We found $600 million to get READY for Universal Nanny State Care
Pence talked about the $600 mill in his interview with Beck.
Any states seen as a serious possible target to get the state legislature to move toward investigating Secession?
JP1986UM on January 23, 2009 at 7:06 PM
That will be Dem propaganda in the form of “informatonal” mailings, TV ads, etc. They know how hard the “Harry and Louise” ads hit Hillarycare.
Wethal on January 23, 2009 at 7:07 PM
Bull!
Get a shovel and take that crap back to the stable.
rplat on January 23, 2009 at 7:12 PM
You don’t understand–her great-great grandchildren won’t have to labor–they’ll be the liberal plantation owners–labor’s for those lowly serfs!
Modern “Progressive Liberalism”: the new serfdom.
Matt Helm on January 23, 2009 at 7:16 PM
The preceding was an arrogant post about an arrogant preside who made an arrogant comment.
Both comments basically amounted to nana, nana, boo-boo.
kingsjester on January 23, 2009 at 7:18 PM
I hope you don’t mind me correcting your French. “L’etat c’est moi” – and you’re right, that seems to sum up Obama quite nicely. Scary.
ProfessorMiao on January 23, 2009 at 7:20 PM
heh heh heh BHO sure has a way with words. First the press corps now the pubs. The truth is he didn’t win anything. The pubs lost. That is a difference that can easily be corrected in 2010. I hope he continues to alienate the MSM. It will speed up the democrats downfall.
kanda on January 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM
The Republicans will cave…everytime. Too bad they won’t learn a lesson and turn the tables next time they are in the majority. Too bad indeed.
SouthernGent on January 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM
I didn’t realise that becoming U.S. President meant becoming dictator. The GOP reps also won in that they won their seats and have a duty to serve American citizens as well.
Still, funding contraception in a stimulus package is a great economic move in the land of Obamanomics which goes like this: less people, less services and jobs required. Huzza more tax dollars I can keep.
Well done to all those Americans who stayed home and didn’t vote: eat and weep.
saint on January 23, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Remember our revolution when we refused to be taxed while we were without representation. Well, what’s the difference now? We have a serious problem brewing here sports fans.
rplat on January 23, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Gee, I thought if we were Moderate, the Democrats would like us.
I think I’m going to go register as a Democrat. I think we’ll have an easier time moving that party to the RIght, and making them more conservative, then we will getting the Republicans back to the Conservative Roots.
Snake307 on January 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Explain the reasons for your great confidence in this statement. Are those beneficiaries of the Obama/Democrat Congress stimulus going to vote themselves a pay cut in 2010? Do you really think that any but the extreme left will all of a sudden develop principles that go against their wallet? And they surely won’t vote for a more conservative candidate. Isn’t the Obama campaign “ground game” only going to be enhanced from the Oval Office? If you think its hard to unseat the average incumbent, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Media be damned.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 8:01 PM
hummmm…
katy on January 23, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Yes, Obama won an election. So did every Republican in Congress.
Paul_in_NJ on January 23, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Thats what Nixon thought too. You know what happened to him.
Sure the press will turn on Obama if he basically treats them with disdain as he did in the press conference yesterday. He will get a few chances before they turn but once they do turn he is toast.
The press is very fickle. The free press is the watchdog, the defacto fourth branch of the US government. They are the ones who keep politicians honest. Once he is on their bad side they will stop at nothing to expose him as only they can do. Two days in office and the press is already questioning his decisions. It won’t be long.
Obama got elected because more people didn’t want McCain than didn’t want Obama. Many republicans simply didn’t bother to vote for McCain. Obama’s a one termer. A caretaker until a viable conservative is found to lead this nation. Some people see Obama as Clintons 3rd term I see him as Carters second term.
kanda on January 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM
From the NY Post
and
Seems President Obama is becoming a bully who is about to learn why the legislative branch is separate from the executive branch. This is already interesting and it’s only day 3.
kanda on January 23, 2009 at 8:41 PM
I’m afraid that I will have to disagree with you, and say that the media will never turn on him. He is one of their own, and the industry as a whole would suffer great disgrace if he turns out to be less than messianic.
DFCtomm on January 23, 2009 at 8:47 PM
The Republicans should follow Obama’s lead. They should submit to him the same way he submitted to Bush after Bush won twice.
Can be begin calling Obama “totalitarian” now? Can we begin accusing him of wanting to set up an empire?
29Victor on January 23, 2009 at 8:52 PM
Alexis De Tocqueville is either laughing at us, or crying for us. We are losing a demographic war, and nothing short of cataclysm will change that.
DFCtomm on January 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Well, at least he did not bust out laughing when the gop proposed their only idea.
Tax cuts. Same ole failed ideology.
Next they will propose deregulations for Wall Street.
Geeeeeez.
getalife on January 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM
And lets not forget that the majority of the media are dyed-in-the-wool liberals. Not, left-leaning…liberal. Playing the game of “hope and change” for a conservative comeback in two years or even four years only allows them to solidify their base. Expecting the media to call out Obama is, quite simply, foolish and a waste of time. I’d just as soon wait for an asteroid to take out DC first.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 8:54 PM
I’m more optimistic. After all, my lawn grows (root systems) in the Winter; I just don’t see the results until the Spring.
Red State State of Mind on January 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Constantine = Well…… just check it out.
Seven Percent Solution on January 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Dude…get a life. The tax cuts are valid. Un-checked spending by both sides of the aisle is the pink elephant in the room that conservatives have been screaming about for years and liberals won’t acknowledge. Unless you can consider all sides of an issue, then you are merely stooge for one side and of no consequence in this discussion.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:00 PM
I think he was implying that while tax cuts are fine fresh ideals are needed in the GOP, or some very old ones.
DFCtomm on January 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM
Thanks. My apologies. Just a bit tired of the snarky trolls crawling around yapping the campaign talking points. It seemed on that vein.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:08 PM
Middle class tax cuts are already on his agenda. The gop will love his stimulus plan and will vote for it.
It’s nothing but pork.
getalife on January 23, 2009 at 9:12 PM
The press never liked Nixon. His “You won’t have Nixon to kick around any more” whine was a response to their feelings towards him.
The MSM shilled for Obama and put their credibility on the line. It’s pretty much gone. To regain it, they’d have to admit they were shills.
Wethal on January 23, 2009 at 9:12 PM
That is an excellent point. I have to agree that possibility does exist. I think that it is still highly likely the press faced with ridicule and scorn by Obama will turn against him but you make a very persuasive argument.
kanda on January 23, 2009 at 9:13 PM
But, speaking of fresh ideas, how about having a principle and standing by it regardless of the political consequences. We have catered to the whims of political discourse controlled by the left and aided by the media for so long that we find ourselves in our present situation. And no more back room deals where we hold our nose and back liberals in the hope that they will reciprocate. Guess what, they don’t. Compromise=concession.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Gosh et tu genso?… just kidding. You also make a good point. We shall have to see how it plays out but I think the ego of the press in opposition to Obama’s ego will force them to turn against him.
kanda on January 23, 2009 at 9:17 PM
Allow your mind to think of the situation where the media backs Obama regardless of how he treats them…kind of like a battered spouse. Now, how do you feel?
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:19 PM
The more I read your posts an amazed by your wisdom. What you wrote is so true.
kanda on January 23, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I don’t know about wisdom. Just a guy who is fed up with growing government getting shoved down my throat. But, thanks.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:25 PM
The fight for 2010 begins now..With no Obama on the ballot..the GOP has to make significant gains…and we should support them, if they do things that make them worthy of it…
therightwinger on January 23, 2009 at 9:25 PM
I’ve been thinking about how to accomplish this. It seems that the RNC is not taking leadership in finding and promoting conservatives who not only give lip-service to their ideals but actually vote them. I can think of DeMint and maybe a handful more, but no real national leaders. Please fill me in on your ideas.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Yeah, I have no clue what they’re doing, really. I think the strategy is to just let the Democrats screw up (which they will) and go from there….
Jim Demint, Coburn and a few others are solid.
Bottom line is that the Republicans HAVE TO gain seats in the next election. The nation is screwed as/is.
therightwinger on January 23, 2009 at 9:31 PM
I wish we could get these true conservatives to either break from the RNC or stand up to them like they seem to be standing up to the left.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Alas, it could be that the money is for liberalism. If this is so then we will never recover. The rules of Congress and the nature of the voting public revolve around the money. And its not the $200 donations to campaigns.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Stolen from the comments section at Ace:
From “We are One” to “I Won” in two days.
rockmom on January 23, 2009 at 9:39 PM
+1
Hell, +100
califcon on January 23, 2009 at 9:55 PM
America, home of the iron fist bump.
Ronnie on January 23, 2009 at 9:57 PM
That statement will come back to bite him. Its absolute proof of his incompetence and arrogance.
dogsoldier on January 23, 2009 at 9:58 PM
I’m certainly showing my age here but this childish “I won,” reminded me of this! lol…
And… if you watch the whole clip… you might get a greater meaning out of it…
jerrytbg on January 23, 2009 at 10:24 PM
Guess what President Barak Obama. All of those Republican Congresmen and Senators you were talking to won their elections too. They aren’t in the room with you because they lost the election. Americans didn’t elect them just to Bend Over for you. They were elected to represent the citizens of their respective states. We don’t want a stimulus package this year that will rob us of our liberties in years to come.
Tim Pancoast on January 23, 2009 at 10:26 PM
If the GOP finds its backbone and frames the debate with any sort of skill, this stimulus boondoggle will be just as unpopular as TARP. It could be a huge millstone around the Democrats’ collective necks.
ddrintn on January 23, 2009 at 10:37 PM
We have a winner!!
jerrytbg on January 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM
The much publicized selling point of this new round of stimulus spending suggests that massive funds are going to be spent on repairing America’s crumbling infrastructure…you know, highways, bridges, that sort of thing…making it appear that some sort of massive FDR-type CCC is going to spring up under federal tutelege and all out highways and bridges will be made safe once more.
Obama emphasized this rebuild our crumbling infrastructure in his inaugural address.
Bull. It is all bull.
Only about 3% of the total of this new round of stimulus is going to be spent on infrastructure repairs…the rest, 97% will go to individuals and corporations.
And opposing this stimulus is now un-American, or somehow under the evil direction of Rush Limbaugh and the vast Right-wing Conspiracy? No. Opposition is based on recognition of those individuals and corporations standing to get mega-billions…based on their demonstrated political loyalty to Obama and the Dems.
This certainly isn’t the “change” bandied about during the campaign. It is just more of the same kleptocracy found in any dictatorship over the past 100 years.
coldwarrior on January 23, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Except the part where the TARP is hung around Bush’s neck. As long as it was Bush, it was bad. Whatever Obama does will be given a “we-must-give-it-time-to-work” pass.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Bush put TARP around his own neck by pushing it. The Republicans in Congress could have said no. I think if McCain had done so, he might have had a realistic shot.
ddrintn on January 23, 2009 at 10:50 PM
All true, but for it to backfire on Obama, both the media and the GOP will have to grow backbones. Given their past actions, I don’t see that happening.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Seriously, before I leave this world we might have a state secede. But, let’s leave that for a secession thread.
AP, get on it.
Sapwolf on January 23, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I suppose soros is going to be completely repaid, with interest for his investment…In our future…
What a guy!
jerrytbg on January 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
I live in Chicago and have for 40yrs! this guy is a thug and the republicans better wake up and start fighting, this guy will NEVER work with the right. Every time I hear him say he will work with republicans I PUKE!
time2taketheglovesoffGOP on January 23, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Nah, all it takes is for the GOP to stand on principle. If we wait on the MSM to hurt Obama, he’s going to get everything he wants. Or everything his handlers want, rather. I don’t think Obama himself has a clue.
ddrintn on January 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Dizzent be payzreotic. – Snoop Dog
BHO Jonestown on January 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I expect Senator Cornyn and Senator Hutchinson along with Representative Culberson to fight any and all socialist agenda that Obama puts forth. That is what I kept them in office to do.
Obama can spout he won a million times and that won’t change the fact that Congress is a separate but equal arm of the federal branch of government.
Perhaps he needs a refresher course on the U.S. Constitution?
SimplyKimberly on January 23, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Did he giggle when he said it?
Socratease on January 23, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Oh…he knows what’s in it–especially the part where if 3/4 of the states call for it, we get a new constitutional convention–he knows that part very well. That’s why we have to really keep an eye on and get involved in state politics–especially state house races. We have to keep as many state legislatures as possible conservative–or else.
Matt Helm on January 23, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I’d like to think you’re right in this, however, for every DeMint there’s a Graham, I think. Not enough for a groundswell without a media assist. As to Obama, I believe he knows exactly what he’s doing from a campaign perspective. That said, he isn’t a leader and will need the media to help his newly launched 2012 campaign.
genso on January 23, 2009 at 11:40 PM
Amen… A thread a day or so ago talked about his perpetual campaign…
Think there might be a connection?
jerrytbg on January 23, 2009 at 11:47 PM
I’d like to see a little more proof than simply this statement. I don’t doubt that he said it, but I would certainly love some audio.
cannonball on January 24, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I dont doubt it
i saw today as pelozi reid shummer, todd and the rest of the demorats were smiling drunk on their new power
While the republican minority leaders were their
and they looked like wipped puppy dogs
begging their new masters for a morsle
Morons
Why even bother to show up since you know aruging is useless and obama and pelozi are going to
Re-Work turning it into a socialist mecca.
Sure
I dont doubt he said it..
You can see their slick smiles.
Ear to ear..
jcila on January 24, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Hey Jerk, what country have you been living in? Go back under your rock!
N4646W on January 24, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Gotta hand it to the Dems.
Even I didn’t think they’d show so little class in the wake of their victory.
Nancy Pelosi’s buffoonish self-applause during Dick Cheney’s certification of the election results is her defining moment.
Hawkins1701 on January 24, 2009 at 12:22 AM
OH MY GOD! THE HUBRIS! THE ARROGANCE! THE SMIRK! HE’S JUST SUCH AN ASSHOLE!
oh wait, he’s a Dem. Never mind.
Sincerely,
Our douchebag media
Metro on January 24, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Here is a link for all the troll on the site
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/01/20/barack_obama_inauguration_this_emperor_has_no_clothes_it_will_all_end_in_tears
There are a lot more articles out there comming from so called Enlightened Countries.
N4646W on January 24, 2009 at 12:42 AM
This will end in tears.
The betrayal of clerics indeed.
Learning lessons is the hardest thing to do.
Kini on January 24, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Hubris. It is not just for Republicans.
Mr. Joe on January 24, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Really? “I won”? That’s his response? Good to see that the “adult” Barack Obama is now in charge of our nation, and his response to questions of policy closely mirror that of a 5 year old…
Trtle2001 on January 24, 2009 at 1:46 AM
Do it, Boehner! Make the Dems eat that crap sandwich all by themselves!
chunderroad on January 24, 2009 at 1:59 AM
Of course every elected official in the room had WON their place at the table and represents their constituents.Not just the little petulant potus.
clnurnberg on January 24, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Your right, but all you have to do is look back at HISTORY! In most cases, someone else has had to do the learning the hard way. History, History, fools. Why repeat the same mistakes and think they will come out differently? If you bang your head against a wall, it hurts, bang it against the wall again and it still hurts, going to try for a third time and see if it will still hurt? This Nation started as a Republic, now it is a Democracy, Democracies fail…
N4646W on January 24, 2009 at 2:15 AM
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