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Obama Is Fighting w/Reid and Biden
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On November 10, 2014 @ 8:33 am In The Point | 16 Comments
It’s a sad state of affairs when Joe Biden appears to have more patience and diplomatic skills than the guy who kept billing himself as a reasonable apolitical common sense guy.
President Obama and Vice President Biden might not see eye-to-eye on immigration strategy. A hint of an apparent disagreement was on display during Obama’s lunch with congressional leaders on Friday at the White House.
“The meeting was tense at times, according to a senior House Republican aide. The aide was not authorized to describe the back-and-forth publicly by name and spoke only on condition of anonymity,” the Associated Press reports.
“Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, about to lose his grip on the upper chamber, barely said a word. The aide said at one point as House Speaker John Boehner was making an argument on immigration, Obama responded that his patience was running out and Vice President Joe Biden interrupted to ask how long Republicans needed. Obama angrily cut Biden off, the aide said.”
Obama is making it clear that he’s not even going to bother playing out a GOP bill beyond a few basic formalities. He lost and now he has nothing to lose and is moving full speed ahead for amnesty.
Biden, for all his obnoxious habits, spent enough time in Congress that he understands negotiating with the other side. Obama spent very little time in Congress. He doesn’t know how to negotiate and doesn’t bother. He has only two modes. Appeasement and abuse. It’s very Middle Eastern in a way. He’s either appeasing you or stepping all over you.
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