PRESIDENT OBAMA ADDRESSES HOUSE REPUBLICANS
January 29, 2010 by Aaron Roberts
Filed under NEWS
In what can only be described as an unprecedented move, President Obama, only days after his first State of the Union address, makes his second town hall meeting since Wednesday’s speech to a different type of town hall. Unlike the one in Tampa, Florida only twenty-four ours prior, this one held in Baltimore was not just your typical citizens mixed with supporters and skeptics alike. This group instead was comprised COMPLETELY of House Republicans.
In an arena packed with his fiercest political adversaries, the president was tasked with trying to bring civility to the political discourse that has taken over the process, of convincing the same group that offered him zero votes on his first budget, that their political gamesmanship was severely obstructing progress in accomplishing important agendas for the American people. In short, he had to make the satisfaction of passing meaningful legislation such as health care and financial reform more appealing than handing the Obama administration political defeat for the sake of GOP’s short term gain. Perhaps one of the most notable moments used to accomplish this was by reminding them that using the intense rhetoric to describe health care reform, all the ones made famous by the infamous posters displayed during the Tea Party rallys, only boxes Republican lawmakers into a corner. It forces them to either reject his good ideas (bad for the people yet politically popular) or accept his proposals, a turn off for their base as they look like they are in alliance with the Stalinist grandma killer. Brilliant move!
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