Vote of No Confidence? Dem Rep Says He ‘May or May Not’ Support Obama Reelection
- Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:49am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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President Obama continues to face critics from his own party after brokering a deal with Republicans yesterday that will not raise taxes for any income level. But the criticism is quickly turning into rumblings of a mutiny.
In an interview with Fox News’s Neil Cavuto last night, Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) echoed growing unrest among Democrats over the president’s recent compromise with Republicans, a sign many say points to a lack of leadership. In expressing his anger, Capuano chose not to deny the possibility of him supporting someone other than Obama in 2012.
“I don’t live in an ivory tower,” Capuano said. “I have to pick the best amongst those people who are running, and it may or may not be President Barack Obama’s reelection.”
And in a day where the president chose to use a questionable “hostage” analogy, Capuano posited one of his own: Republicans are a car salesman who duped the president.
“Anybody who buys an automobile or a car, I would say I would not have President Obama representing me in those negotiations,” Capuano said. “I want somebody who understands on occasion you have to get up and walk out of the room, and then you come back and you make a deal. You don‘t just take whatever deal is thrown at you from somebody who you don’t agree with.”
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Comments (47)
mikenleeds
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:36pmsounds like the rats are trying to jump ship …. am amazed that obama actually took a stand against his masters….
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:02pmImagine you’ve worked all of your life building a business and an estate for you and your family to live in the manner you wish them to, you dedicated your life and your hard work to achieve this difficult goal, and here you are on your death bed, and the government who has mercilessly taxed you to death throughout your lifetime, have taxed your purchases, taxed your businesses, taxed your family as well as taxed your assets and holdings, and now they the government want to impose a new law on you, that your estate will be taxed 50% upon your death, as an estate tax.
Report Post »A government who did absolutely nothing demands that they should receive (take away) half of what should rightly belong to your family from your lifetime of effort. What right beyond making laws to rob and steal from you throughout your lifetime does the government have to make laws to steal and rob from you from your grave?
The life of government changes every time a new President is elected, maybe the people should demand a law also be made that the government return half of the countries earnings back to the public after the President’s term is over in a similar manner, maybe the country will take more time and interest in the politicians they elect, so they can receive the dividend back from their leaders hard work on behalf of them. They might find better leaders if they employed the death of office tax on the country’s estate changing hands. Why not, if it’s good for the one, why not apply the same methodology for the good of all? Ha!
jb1972
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:17pm“Anybody who buys an automobile or a car”. LMAO, I didnt know these were different? Its bad for Obama if someone this bright has voted “no confidence”!
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:16pmBeing on the fence still makes you the enemy.
Report Post »sobeit
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:49pmIt’s all a ploy!
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:47pmThe lefts best chances now are an economic crash coupled with violent riots, and martial law. Then they can censor the media so elections will go their way. They need the dollar to collapse so look for a flood of fiat money from the Fed to drive inflation.
Report Post »svedka
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:46pmDid anyone just catch Weiner being a weiner?
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:33pmExcuse me, the Dems get trounced last November. The country completely rejected the direction they are taking us. He compromises on one item and you guys throw a hissy fit? What a bunch of little children the Democrats are. Do you guys not realize that you look like little babies to any person with an IQ above 80? Oh forgot, their base all has IQ’s below 80. Never mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DnA4Ro9tQ
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StMichelob
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 3:05pmreminds me of Forrest Gump “Your momma sure does care for your education, boy…“ ”HEE HEE HEE HEE”
“Stupid is as stupid does, Mrs. Bleu.”
Semper Fi and “I may not be a smart man but I KNOW what a Democratic Republic is. Why don’t you love us, Obama? We’d make a good country….”
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:28pmGood to see them turning on each other. If enough democrats defect we will slaughter them in 2012.
Report Post »OK3Wire
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:25pmWatching the left snipe at each other is like a warm slice of apple pie and some ice cream on the side … delicious!
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:14pmNot to worry, no one will vote for him anyway.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:06pmThey need somebody more like Hitler to get us through the coming meltdown.
Report Post »Conserving Ink
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:55pmThe lines are becoming clearer. Those Democrats who aren’t Marxist/Socialist are facing a party that increasingly looks like the enemy. They‘ll try to take their party back and when they fail they’ll come over to the GOP.
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takemout
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:38pmThe socialists have come out of the woodwork. They are not going to be quiet. The MSM is on their side. Watch out for Hillary. She will resign her post as SOS over some gaffe with “zero” over a foreign policy blunder and will be off and running. She has to run in 2012. She will be 65 and can’t wait any longer. She already is showing her age; shall we say.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:36pmReps from Massachusetts are SO FAR LEFT, they’re almost in Syracuse!
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:24pmi am pleased many demos won’t be voting for him to be re-elected so they say but when it comes right down to it they will be flocking to keep him in office cause stupid is as stupid does besides Obama and Nancy go together like peas and carrots
Report Post »KEA
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:17pmI think they just insulted a lot of great car salesmen.
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:13pmWhy do they keep acting like he’s done us a favor??
Report Post »ADDICTED TO TRUTH
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:56pmThat‘s the part that’s making me sick. He stands up there and claims to “rescue” us from the “hostage taker” Republicans when the Republicans are for ONCE doing what they were told BY the people. The PEOPLE have thrown a bus in the middle of the road to stop all this craziness and yet he stands up there taking credit for it. It’s repulsive and indicates mental ILLNESS!…. See how stupid they think you are?
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:09pmThis is a head fake guys. Oblame-a will be reelected.
Report Post »Who in the LibProg party is more to the Left than Oblame-a that has a shot at winning the election?
takemout
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:29pmHillary!
Report Post »BetsyRoss1513
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:05pmIt’s amazing that liberals (more liberal than him) are angry with him, everything considered. He made a deal he had to make.
Report Post »Did he or didn’t he shove UHC down our throats at the behest of the liberals? He‘d BETTER make a damn deal with Reps if he knows what’s good for him.
TexasCommonSense
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:02pmAs left as Obama is, he isn’t quite left enough for some.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:56amObama should walk out of the room indeed…and not come back…at the very least until January.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:55amPoor Dems are only now starting to figure out that their messiah is a fraud?
Report Post »ConservativeFeminist
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:55amSocialists are coming out of the shadows – they only want Obama to support their radical agenda even though it is against the will of the American people.
Report Post »Konservative PUNK
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 11:54amcould it get much worse than Obama ?
Report Post »americanidiot
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:13pmIt’s all part of their plan; “top down, bottom up, and inside out”. They are playing chess with the American people and actually doing a good job. Like Beck said Ron Paul and Michael Moore agreed on the Julian Assange issue, WOW be afraid be very afraid.
Report Post »FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:18pmYou are correct. The dem’s know they cannot win this one so in order to get something out of it they play like they are all mad at the boss. He then gets all the blind Americans to fall for the fact that he is willing to even go against his own party for their sakes. He is working 2012 as we speak……….I think it will take a lot more than this to keep him in the WH……………………VICTORY OR DEATH
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:25pmNo, it could not get any worse than President Obama.
He is an empty suit that is the product of a leftist machine that for decades has worked from a myriad of ideologies grafted from a litany of political and socio-economic philosophies occupying a blood soaked ash heap of failed history, to destroy the United States and replace it with bankrupt system designed to impose tyranny on people and reduce them to a permanent state of childhood, crushing poverty and disease.
President Obama’s young mind was perverted by largely Marxists, filled with hate and devoid of human aspiration and those long separated from any faith the living God that inspired America’s founders to establish a free government, of, for and by the people – each an individual, joined with their countrymen to form one nation – E pluribus unum!
The saddest part is that President Obama, as a man, seems like a very nice and sincere fellow – a good Dad and husband that loves his family and friends.
Someone needs to set him aside and tell him the truth: “Mr. President, first you must love your country and all its people with all of your heart and despite every flaw, you must love it and them above all else and put it and them above all else. You must stand for and by them against all others and without question or regard to the lies you have been told. You must cheer their every step and stand as a wall against any and all that oppose the country and its people. You must forget the lies and distortions that have clouded your mind and darkened your heart and see the nation for what it truly is, most exceptional in all of human history. You must never down your country, or its people – ever! NOT EVER! and Mr. President, neither your nation, or you may ever be WRONG! The Commander MUST ALWAYS KNOW WHAT TO DO! Even if it is wrong, to do nothing is death and stagnation – the country must move forward and you must never threaten its businesses, their trade, or contracts. You must love every word in the Constitution and recognize it as the enduring document and map that it is. It provides the connection between a government of men and the natural laws as handed down by their creator. Turn away from hate, Mr. President. Turn away from darkness and the lies that you are told and listen to your heart – no man that is good can be held in such darkness. Love ALL of your people, Mr. President and we will love you back!”
Report Post »spendthrift
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:26pmI certainly hope so…
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 12:47pm@LKETCHUM that was so very well said, but you and I and all the rest of us know that those words would fall on deaf ears. Worse, they will fall on an enemy’s ears that hate what you are saying, and will kill you for your words. WAS obama indoctrinated? Sure he was, but his is either in the destruction of America plan whole-heartedly, or he is a “Manturian Canidate”. I actually believe the latter, due to the fact that he can’t give a speach, in fact can’t FUNCTION without a teleprompter in his face. When you think about that fact, and we mostly laugh it off as some funny joke, it should scare us all to death. WHO is writing these teleprompted speaches? I have actually been thinking the last 22 years of presidency and “presidential elections” has been a hoax, and they are all part of some conspiracy to fundamentally change us into a global socialist democracy. (example: Why the HELL was McCain the R choice for president? The most undesirable of the 7 or so running got the nod? Huckabee was winning hands down until super tuesday….Was McCain NOT on board with ‘the plan’? Or was he picked to run against obama because he was so unelectable as to force us to vote for obama?) Still in the early stages of my developing reasoning, but there is a tickle. I have never been a conspiracy theorist, just a watcher of the facts and an analyzer of events.
If you want to see a REAL presidential man, see this speach by my (Thank God) representative, Mike Pence at Hillsdale College. It will blow your mind.
http://www.thehotjoints.com/2010/09/27/video-mike-pence-speaks-at-hillsdale-college/
Semper Fi, and get me some DNA of George Washington so we can clone his ass back to the White House. Ronnie Regan or Cal Coolridge will do also…
Report Post »KaptainKody
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:09pmThe fleas/rats are jumping ship. Obama is toxic and an abject failure in every imaginable category as a president. Consequently, those that rode his popularity when he was cool and hip as a rock-star president (though didn’t have a resume) are now bailing as they now see in hind-site they made the wrong choice from the begining. What did they expect? Success behind this unknown, smooth speakin, purple lipped, loppy eared commy???????
Report Post »CultureWarriors
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 1:25pmcould it get much worse than Obama? Short answer NO. Considering he’s the most unqualified, clueless and least presidential POTUS in history. Jimmy is happy that some one removed him from that dubious distinction. Given Barry’s mental maturity, a 12 year old could do a better job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DnA4Ro9tQ
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StMichelob
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:58pmPLEASE post a comment if you see Pence’s speah…I’d love to know if anyone is seeing it…
Report Post »StMichelob
Posted on December 8, 2010 at 2:59pm*speach….dammit, can anyone donate a keyboard to me?
Report Post »JKN
Posted on December 9, 2010 at 10:17amBarack Obama never had the Right, lost the Independents during the mid-terms, and has now lost much of the Left… What a spectacular failure!
While trying to please everyone, he ended up pleasing no one… Sitting on the fence only gives you splinters, Mr. Obama… The pain clearly shows on his face.
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