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Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« on: July 14, 2011, 12:22:42 PM »
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Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
   
Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama bluntly told Republican congressional leaders Wednesday they must compromise quickly if the government is to avoid an unprecedented default, adding, "Don't call my bluff" by passing a short-term debt limit increase he has threatened to veto.

The presidential warning, directed at House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., marked an acrimonious end to a two-hour negotiating session at the White House that produced no evident progress toward a compromise

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Cantor quoted Obama as saying the talks had reached the point that "something's got to give," and demanded Republicans either jettison their demand for deficit cuts at least equal to the size of the debt limit or drop their opposition to tax increases.

"And he said to me, `Eric, don't call my bluff.' He said, `I'm going to the American people with this.'"

Read more: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_DEBT_SHOWDOWN...

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1. Cantor just doesn't get it! Obama is PRESIDENT! He's not a junior staffer.
   
This disrespect is very offensive.

And, it is intentional.

He thinks he can "cut Obama down to size".

I call "Bullshit!"
Listen up SharonAnn, you DUchebag, Cantor didn't think he can cut President X into size.  He already did.

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5. The only person Cantor is cutting down to size is himself.

And you are as big a DUchebag as SharonAnn
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 12:24:53 PM »
The primitives are just now finding this story?

It's so old it's dropped off the front pages everywhere.
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2011, 12:30:01 PM »
The primitives are just now finding this story?

It's so old it's dropped off the front pages everywhere.
Amazing ain't it.   :rotf:
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2011, 12:31:17 PM »
So, is the Kenyan admitting he's bluffing?
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2011, 12:36:21 PM »
So, is the Kenyan admitting he's bluffing?

He sure is.  Just like he was when he said social security checks might not go out.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2011, 12:40:08 PM »
Well, after saying that, he's certainly going to be the one with the poop sticking to him if the only thing Congress can agree to pass is a short-term deal, and he really does veto it.
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2011, 01:39:04 PM »
Obama to GOP: "Don't call my bluff-A-low. Me-Shall gets violent if she's interupted while she's eating."
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2011, 02:08:54 PM »
"Don't call my bluff........."

Interesting.......

One wonders if the "smartest guy ever to be president", knows that a "bluff" is a gambit that is only employed when one is holding a losing hand.........

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2011, 02:09:56 PM »
Pretty obvious Obama doesn't play poker worth a damn.  First off, you only bluff if you DON'T think your opponent has the balls to call you.  Second, you never bluff with your entire chip stack.
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2011, 02:16:06 PM »
"Don't call my bluff........."

Interesting.......

One wonders if the "smartest guy ever to be president", knows that a "bluff" is a gambit that is only employed when one is holding a losing hand.........

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The second that rolled off The Magic Negro's(TM) lips, I'd have been "All In", had  I been in Cantor's shoes.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2011, 02:46:28 PM »
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1. Cantor just doesn't get it! Obama is PRESIDENT! He's not a junior staffer.
   
This disrespect is very offensive.

And, it is intentional.

He thinks he can "cut Obama down to size".

I call "Bullshit!"

Tell you what DUmmies, we will respect your president just as much as you respected Bush.
Now all of a sudden you goons preach that everyone must respect the president, obviously you mean the Democrat President, (I go out of my way now to never say democratic, just to piss the goons off).

I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2011, 04:03:40 PM »
"Don't call my bluff........."

Interesting.......

One wonders if the "smartest guy ever to be president", knows that a "bluff" is a gambit that is only employed when one is holding a losing hand.........

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Not to mention for a bluff to work the other guy has got to think you got the cards. Telling the other guy not to call your bluff is pretty stupid. I'd love to play some poker with obumble. I'd win so much I could retire.
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2011, 04:39:02 PM »
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1. Cantor just doesn't get it! Obama is PRESIDENT! He's not a junior staffer.
Last time I checked, the legislative branch was equal to the executive branch, not subordinate.  At least that's what liberals kept telling us when that guy from Texas was President.
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
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1. Cantor just doesn't get it! Obama is PRESIDENT! He's not a junior staffer.

BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GREAT OZ!!!

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2011, 04:46:10 PM »
I guess the Presidet forgot that Congress can overide his vetos if they have the numbers and this isn't going so well for Barry Big Ears.
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #15 on: July 14, 2011, 05:37:10 PM »
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #16 on: July 14, 2011, 05:39:01 PM »
I guess the Presidet forgot that Congress can overide his vetos if they have the numbers and this isn't going so well for Barry Big Ears.

Since when did Barry get crowned King and Despot in this country.

We have built in laws to prevent any single man or group of men from taking over the country and no one not even Obama his Holiness should be able to threaten us.

Call his Bluff and when the welfare checks do not go out stand back, time to let him do some explaining to the country on whose fault it is we are about rock bottom broke.

 If people are going to riot, may as well do it when the weather is warm and people can live in tents after they burn down the city's.  May do them good, some will actually get jobs to rebuild the city's. :whistling: :whistling:

Might as well do this now as if he gets another term, it will just get worse and he won't have to worry about getting elected, the King can really run amok for another few years.

He the KING promised change, well we got it, and when people are hungry they tend to blame the sitting political party, they may even demand HE get us out of this mess-----Waiting for a new Crises to happen to take our minds off what is coming with that Bozo in power.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #17 on: July 14, 2011, 05:45:25 PM »
I guess the Presidet forgot that Congress can overide his vetos if they have the numbers and this isn't going so well for Barry Big Ears.

Seeing as how there seems to be a vast expanse of empty space between those giant ears........

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #18 on: July 14, 2011, 06:34:03 PM »
Last time I checked, the legislative branch was equal to the executive branch, not subordinate.  At least that's what liberals kept telling us when that guy from Texas was President.

Well now that was different, doncha know Chris? That was when we had an evil/dictator/dumbass/drunk in the White House. Now we got us a guy that shits skittles, pisses wine and is the mostest, smartest, bestest, guy evah! in the White House.   :fuelfire:

I'm still waiting for my free pony, mortgage payment, free gasoline, free food, etc. He promised!!!!
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #19 on: July 14, 2011, 06:39:14 PM »
So, is the Kenyan admitting he's bluffing?

They are just too stupid to realize that is exactly what he did.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2011, 07:19:09 PM »
They are just too stupid to realize that is exactly what he did.

Ever notice how the huge numbers of people are into survival, storing food and weapons in the last couple years??

The last time I remember this large amount of people worried about survival was back when people were building bomb shelters in the 50-60's ------ Better dead then Red and what not.

Today we worry not about the Russians but our own government and the people it lets into the country.

Today we know that down the road a small spark will build and will have us running for the hills.   Will it be caused by our own government, outsiders, public unrest, who knows but millions are hunkering down wondering if and when we will face the unimaginable.

Didn't have these thoughts when Regan was in office, both Bushes never made us feel this way.   Clinton put money in our pockets, so whose fault is it that has people buying Ammo by the bucket load and planting gardens as the foreign vegetables can make us ill. Stored food, freeze dried or dehydrated is flying off the shelves.

I have noticed that more then a few Druggist now try to sell the idea of buying a 3 month supply of needed RX---for the customers convenience,  really?, gives one thought.

Collective thought here, not brought on by fear mongers, but just that smell in the air, the pricking of our thumbs, the subconsious that wispers that something is just not right here.

Kind of a waiting for the next shoe to fall, are we all paranoid, why do we go into extreme cuponing to stock up half the house with toilet paper.   Whats this with all the cell phones with cameras,  why are our elected officials every month acting like idiots and getting thrown out of office????

If all this is normal today what will happen in the next 10 years.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #21 on: July 14, 2011, 07:22:03 PM »

vesta, dear, madam, you're supposed to be responding to Gina's iPhone thread, not this one.

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #22 on: July 14, 2011, 07:24:01 PM »
They are just too stupid to realize that is exactly what he did.

Worse, they are too stupid to realize he is that stupid.

It is the old " you can fool some of the people ... but a dummy is just a fool all the time"
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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #23 on: July 14, 2011, 07:26:28 PM »
Ever notice how the huge numbers of people are into survival, storing food and weapons in the last couple years??

The last time I remember this large amount of people worried about survival was back when people were building bomb shelters in the 50-60's ------ Better dead then Red and what not.

Today we worry not about the Russians but our own government and the people it lets into the country.

Today we know that down the road a small spark will build and will have us running for the hills.   Will it be caused by our own government, outsiders, public unrest, who knows but millions are hunkering down wondering if and when we will face the unimaginable.

Didn't have these thoughts when Regan was in office, both Bushes never made us feel this way.   Clinton put money in our pockets, so whose fault is it that has people buying Ammo by the bucket load and planting gardens as the foreign vegetables can make us ill. Stored food, freeze dried or dehydrated is flying off the shelves.

I have noticed that more then a few Druggist now try to sell the idea of buying a 3 month supply of needed RX---for the customers convenience,  really?, gives one thought.

Collective thought here, not brought on by fear mongers, but just that smell in the air, the pricking of our thumbs, the subconsious that wispers that something is just not right here.

Kind of a waiting for the next shoe to fall, are we all paranoid, why do we go into extreme cuponing to stock up half the house with toilet paper.   Whats this with all the cell phones with cameras,  why are our elected officials every month acting like idiots and getting thrown out of office????

If all this is normal today what will happen in the next 10 years.

The heat is at almost 90 in my house, makes me feel not so good, outside temp is only 72, damn insulation was put in backward.





I don't about you, but I was very afraid when Clinton was president as he was systematically gutting the military while simultaneously committing them to numerous protracted "humanitarian missions."    

Oh, and ALWAYS be wary of the Russians... dead than red still applies.    

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Re: Obama to GOP: 'Don't call my bluff'
« Reply #24 on: July 14, 2011, 07:31:23 PM »
Oh, and ALWAYS be wary of the Russians... dead than red still applies.

This reminds me of a common I heard frequently in the socialist paradises of the workers and peasants; it's apparently actually an ancient Russian proverb:

"The German may be a nice lad, but it's best to hang him anyway."
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