Obama Feeling 'Enormous Frustration' With GOP

[DonViejo]

CAITLIN MACNEAL – OCTOBER 31, 2013, 12:43 PM EDT

President Obama said Wednesday that he feels "enormous frustration" with Republicans in Congress and their efforts to block his legislative agenda.

"Sometimes people ask me, 'Man, how do you stay optimistic because it just seems like a bunch of problems piling up on your desk and it doesn't seem like you're getting a lot of help from the other side?'" Obama said at a fundraising event in Boston. The president said that it's been a challenging year with the Newtown, Mass. shooting and the Boston marathon bombings.

"We would have hoped that coming out of those two tragedies that we would see a new spirit in Congress of people pulling together and rolling up sleeves and working on the things a broad spectrum of Americans agree on, but that's not what we got," he said. "Instead we got more obstruction and more resistance to getting anything done, most recently culminating in a shutdown that was entirely unnecessary.”

Obama was speaking at a fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, where tickets for supporters cost between $16,200 and $64,800.

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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. Welcome to sthe club, Mr. President.

I've felt that frustration since Reagan Ascended to the Exceptional Throne. And Reagan was a Pinko-fascist-Muslim-communist-liberal compared to the crop in power today.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Spend the next year trying to beat them then

Like the whole year.

[Myrina]

3. Welcome to our world, Sir.

Most of us have been here for 30 or so years.

[indepat]

4. The President is clearly a better man than I and perhaps all of us, for the typical person would

have felt "enormous frustration" with the GOP no later than January 21, 2009, and been pist out of his gourd no later than January 22, 2009.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I'm frustrated with them keeping things from getting done

and keeping everybody distracted with with totally unnecessary manufactured crises instead of trying to address things that are true problems.

[polichick]

6. Stand with the people, Sir, and stop "looking forward" and reaching out to sociopaths...

Let's stop protecting war criminals and restore the idea of "liberty and justice for all" - just as a beginning.

Use the power we've invested in you in a way that surprises them - they'll begin to see it a bit differently then.

[busterbrown]

7. Do people really think that Obama is just now becoming “annoyed”.

This guy knew from the first 3 months after his inauguration that he would be unnecessarily attacked with venom by
the right wing..

The response would be well thought out by the Administration (adults in the room), but underneath you know our President blood is boiling..

[Jim Lane]

9. In 2010 he apparently didn't feel enough annoyed to take strong action on that feeling.

He could and should have been hitting the hustings hard, attacking the Republicans as obstructionist, extortionist, etc. He also should have laid the groundwork for that campaign by pursuing a much more progressive agenda and flaying the Republicans over their refusal to pass it.

I'm not saying that he could have single-handedly reversed the result. I do think, however, that he could have swung some seats.

My hope is that he's now beyond "annoyed" -- that he's furious and is therefore finally ready to give up on post-partisanship and reaching out and all this other crap.

Give 'em hell, Barack!

[sakabatou]

8. We've been feeling it since Junior

[calguy]

10. Well I sure hoped he's frustrated enough

To go into full campaign mode come next July and August and kick some ass. He can do a whole lot to remove a bunch of GOPricks from office. Only with a dem house and senate will we see any real progress.

[gopiscrap]

11. welcome to DU

[calguy]

12. Thank You

Although I just registered a few days ago, I'm actually an "old timer" to DU. I've enjoyed reading these threads since the early days of GW Bushitter's reign of error. Thought it was about I registered and start sharing my thoughts. Since the early days I've always loved DU.

[gopiscrap]

13. you're welcome hope you have a fun and educational time here!