Angry Obama Hits McCain, GOP Senators

Is the Democrat Senatorial Committee paying for this trip of Obama's to California this afternoon? Reason we ask is the Democrats and their lapdog media asked every time President Bush made a campaign trip if Republicans were paying which they always did. We don't remember seeing our MSM asking if the Democrats are paying for Obama's trip.

As the Senate wrapped up its business Tuesday, Obama was flying to California to headline a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer, one of Congress' most liberal members and a top GOP target this fall.

It has been rumored for years that Obama is thin skinned and cannot take criticism. Turns out it is true in the meeting he had with Senate Republicans yesterday. We have always considered Pat Roberts of Kansas a pretty mild mannered person so to see this quote said it all about the demeanor of Obama:

"He needs to take a Valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans," Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told reporters. "He's pretty thin-skinned."

No amount of spin on the part of the Administration is going to change the fact that a United States Senator said he needs to take Valium before talking to Republicans. Shows that he was raised with no criticism and now cannot take it which makes us wonder how he could he could dish it out against President Bush with no problem but now that he is President he wants not one to criticize him. Hypocrite!

It also makes sense about his announcement yesterday afternoon that he is intending to send 1,200 military to the border and allocating money after this meeting when McCain and Kyl became very vocal about Border Security. One problem with the troops Obama is sending is that it came out today they are mostly desk jobs according to Fox News:

Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said he's heard that "the 1,200 border patrol troops are, in effect, desk jobs."

"They aren't boots on the ground at the border," he said, adding that "they were not intended to be deployed to the border."

"Rather they'll be investigating, administrative support, maybe training," he said. "Now that's all fine...but the real value of the National Guard is to be seen."

Was this a publicity stunt by Obama since he didn't bother to tell Senators McCain and Kyl this was planned? Will he really send the troops and ask for the money? In our lifetime we have never witnessed a President that his word is worth nothing. When he said he read the Arizona Immigration Bill, they should have quizzed him on the bill because if he read it, he didn't comprehend the bill.

Last night Greta on Fox News talked to Sen McCain by phone who had this to say after Obama never mentioning a word about sending more troops to the border and 30 minutes after the meeting makes the announcement:

MCCAIN: I don't know, Greta, but I know that this is the most partisan administration that I've ever dealt with. And the fact is that they have not kept us informed on a lot of things. I'm the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee. They don't inform us -- inform me on a number of issues. But it is what it is. And the fact is that Americans have finally got the message through that we need to secure our border and we need to secure our border first.

How he had the nerve to show up at the Republican luncheon and attempt to lecture on bi-partisanship is beyond us. Sen Corker of TN got it right along with McCain and others who were in no mood to be talked down to by this President who is clueless on most issues when pressed without having a teleprompter so someone can tell him what to say.

Even some members of the media are waking up to the fact that Obama does not have the demeanor of a President and cannot take any critcism which is becoming more painfully obvious by the day. Just who is this man we know nothing about because no records are allowed to be released. Maybe refusing to hold a press conference or take questions from members of the media is wearing thin. It should be because the job of the White House Press Corps is to keep America apprised of what is happening when all they get is spin from the Press Secretary.

Someone needs to remind Obama he is a President not a dictator!

Angry Obama Hits McCain, GOP Senators
Tuesday, 25 May 2010 09:18 PM

If President Barack Obama thought having a private lunch with Republican senators would ease partisan tensions in Congress, he grabbed the wrong recipe.

The president walked into a remarkably contentious 80-minute session Tuesday in which GOP senators accused him of duplicity, audacity and unbending partisanship. Lawmakers said the testy exchange left legislative logjams intact, and one GOP leader said nothing is likely to change before the November elections.

Obama's sharpest accuser was Bob Corker of Tennessee, a first-term senator who feels the administration undermined his efforts to craft a bipartisan financial regulation bill.

"I told him I thought there was a degree of audacity in him even showing up today after what happened with financial regulation," Corker told reporters, with perhaps a dig at Obama's book "The Audacity of Hope."

"I just wanted him to tell me how, when he wakes up in the morning, comes over to a luncheon like ours today, how does he reconcile that duplicity?"

Four people who were in the room said Obama bristled and defended his administration's handling of negotiations. On the way out, Corker said, Obama approached him and both men repeated their main points.

"I told him there was a tremendous disconnect from his words and the actions of his administration," Corker said.

White House spokesman Bill Burton, who attended the session in the Capitol, said the exchange "was actually pretty civil."

The senators applauded Obama, who had requested the luncheon, when he entered and left the room. Obama told reporters as he departed, "It was a good, frank discussion about a whole range of issues."

Some Republicans were less kind.

"He needs to take a Valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans," Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told reporters. "He's pretty thin-skinned."

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., said he addressed Obama, "trying to demand overdue action" on the giant oil spill damaging Gulf coast states. He said got "no specific response" except Obama's pledge to have an authoritative White House official call him within hours.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Obama's 2008 presidential opponent, said he pressed the president on immigration issues. McCain said he told Obama "we need to secure the border first" before taking other steps. "The president didn't agree," he said.

Later, McCain said his views were unchanged by Obama's decision to send an additional 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border.

At the lunch, McCain said he defended his state's pending immigration law, which Obama says could lead to discrimination. It directs police, when questioning people about possible law violations, to ask about their immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" they're in the country illegally.

At the luncheon, McCain said, "I pointed out that members of his administration who have not read the law have mischaracterized the law — a very egregious act on their part."

Burton said Obama told McCain that he has read the Arizona law himself, and his concerns remain.

After the luncheon, no one suggested the two parties were even a smidgen closer to resolving differences over energy, immigration and other issues that Obama has said he wants to act on this year.

"We simply have a large difference of opinion that's not likely to be settled until November about taxes, spending and the debt," said Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

Senators said the November elections — all 435 House seats, 36 Senate seats and another three dozen governors' seats are up for grabs — were not overtly mentioned. But they were an unmistakable backdrop.

Republicans hope for big gains, maybe even control of the House. They are banking on voter resentment of Obama initiatives such as the new health care law, and many see little point in cooperating with Obama and Democratic lawmakers at this point.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., complained to Obama about the partisan genesis of the health care law, enacted without a single Republican vote in Congress. Administration aides repeatedly have said GOP input was welcome, but none within reason turned up.

It's hard to know if Obama genuinely thought his luncheon visit would melt some of the partisan iciness. Several Republican senators and aides in the room said he seemed to be going through the motions, not making real efforts at consensus.

"What's really important is not so much the symbolism of bipartisanship as it is the action of bipartisanship," Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told reporters later.

Citing the scant or zero Republican support for the health care law, financial regulation bill and last year's financial stimulus, Thune said, "What we haven't seen is sort of the matchup between the rhetoric and the actions to follow through."

As the Senate wrapped up its business Tuesday, Obama was flying to California to headline a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer, one of Congress' most liberal members and a top GOP target this fall.

Source: Newsmax