Quayle: Obama's challenge is taming leftist Dems [View All]

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Source: WTHR-TV

Quayle: Obama's challenge is taming leftist Dems

Updated: July 18, 2009 11:44 AM EDT

Stateline, Nev. - Former Vice President Dan Quayle gives President Obama high marks for surrounding himself with quality advisers on national security and the economy. But he says the verdict is still out on whether his Democratic administration will govern as liberally as he campaigned.

"I think his biggest challenge is to tame the left wing of his party," Quayle said in an interview with The Associated Press at Lake Tahoe.

"I guess we'll find out how `left' Obama really is because he's going to have to make some very tough decisions where he is either going to have to go with the left wing of his party or stare them down and govern more like (ex-president Bill) Clinton governed, which is sort of center-left. That jury is still out," said the Republican who served in the first Bush administration.

Quayle, who is playing golf at Lake Tahoe through the weekend at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, said Democrats had been out of power for eight years so "they just tried to throw everything out there and see what stuck and see what they wanted to do."

"To get elected, he clearly ran sort of center-left and we (the Bush-Quayle ticket) ran center-right. That's the normal situation. Same way with Reagan," he said in an interview after he finished his opening round Friday in a group with former Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps and television personality Maury Povich.

"Now I think they will have to make some tough decisions," Quayle said. "He knows the deficit is menacing. Whether he is willing to stare down the left wing of his party and say, `Guys, we've got to get this budget in order before we take on too many things,' I don't know. I think the jury is still out."


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According to Dan Quayle, and DLC and Blue Dog Democrats, the problem lies with the very same people that gave Democrats control of Congress and the White House.

Has anyone here read what happened to the Kronstadt sailors in 1921? The very people that brought down the evil Tsar were themselves accused of being counter-revolutionaries. History repeats itself!