[Daily Nation (Kenya)] President Barack B.O. Obama today assured angry US voters who routed his Democratic allies this week that he got their message and urged jubilant Republicans to work with him on a tax-cut deal.
"Your message was clear," the president told Americans in his weekly radio address. "You're rightly frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery. So am I. You're fed up with partisan politics and want results. I do too."
Obama vowed to target stubbornly high joblessness that spelled Democratic disaster in Tuesday's elections and urged Republicans to agree to a deal on middle-class tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, but set to expire come January.
The president said he hoped to extend the cuts for all but the top two per cent of earners, declaring: "I believe we can't afford to borrow and spend another 700 billion on permanent tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires."
Republicans have said they will fight to make all of the cuts permanent during a "lame-duck" session due to start the week of November 15, and Obama's words left open the prospect of a temporary extension for those at the top.
"Something's got to be done. And I believe there's room for us to compromise and get it done together," said Obama, who admonished his fired-up foes "the campaign season is over."
Senator-elect Marco Rubio, a Republican rising star, charged in his party's radio rebuttal that Obama had set the United States on "nothing short of a path to ruin, a path that threatens to diminish us as a nation and a people."
"The challenges are too great, too generational in scope for us to be merely opponents of bad policies. Instead, we will put forward bold ideas and have the courage to fight for them," said Rubio, a darling of the archconservative "Tea Party" movement.
Where Obama vowed to extend tax cuts on families making $250,000 or less, Rubio said Republicans were committed to "preventing a massive tax increase scheduled to hit every American taxpayer at the end of the year."
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This is a tad off subject but with BO and Hillery and their minions out of country it would be a great opportunity to change the locks at the border.
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First time. Second was Saint Helena. Probably selected as the place in the British Empire likely to most reduce his remaining lifespan and be most distant from France.
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I like this Rubio. He can do the job if the Rino's and Dems don't block him. He needs a vocal coalition. O,Dems and Media will not change. He reminds me of Regan. Let the dogs bark this wagon's moven on.
#8
I like Rubio. I want to see more of him. He sounds good. Gov. Chris Cristie is doing some good things. What about Paul Ryan? We need people who will do what's good for the country and not the party or themselves or some lobbying group.
#9
Would this be a good time to say something along the lines of, "Barack - We won, you lost. Get over it. We don't mind fixing the problems you created but we don't want to hear a lot of talking. We're going to get this car out of the ditch and you're welcome to come along for the ride but you'll have to sit in back."
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With Republicans now in control of the U.S. House, the White House quickly announced a few symbolic gestures intended to show they had absorbed the lessons of the midterm election. Obama invited both Democratic and Republican legislative leaders to a meeting followed by dinner in the White House on Nov. 18.
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