Obama Advisor: "president wasn't interested in negotiations "to break up the package.""

[DFab420]

David Axelrod this morning " "It's not an a la carte menu,"

“The president has a package. The package works together. We need to do many things to get this economy moving and people back to work. Not just one thing,” Axelrod said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” He served as a senior adviser to the president during the first two years of the Obama administration and is now a key political strategist behind the president’s reelection campaign.

We want them to act now on this package,” Axelrod said of Congress. “We are not in negotiation to break up the package. And it’s not an a la carte menu. It’s a strategy to get this country moving.”


Obviously, if they pass parts of it, I am not going to veto those parts,” Obama told a group of Hispanic journalists on Monday.
“I will sign it, but I will then say, ‘Give me the rest, and I will keep on making that argument as long as the need is there to put people back to work the get the economy moving.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/63378.html#ixzz1XrJum9X6

[Enrique]

1. but he's not going to veto 1 million jobs

just because he can't get 2 million. Right?

[DFab420]

5. That's what he says. He won't veto parts if they pass parts, but he won't stop pushing the whole.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. I couldn't get past the opening graph: "The president has a package."

Horrible "journalism."

[DFab420]

7. lol

[tblue]

9. I thought he did

but according to this report it faded at the first sign of resistance.

[DFab420]

12. Yea fuck the President for agreeing to sign things to put American's back to work. YARGH!!!!

[villager]

3. So the President is saying he will, in fact, sign it "a la carte"

...which means, practically speaking, that's exactly what it is.

[joeybee12]

4. So, he's saying he doesn't want them to break it up, but if they do, he'll take it..

What a backbone!

[DFab420]

6. Yea he should totally just veto any job creation that comes out of congress! That'll show the

American population what true backbone is!

:wtf:?

[tblue]

8. GOOD GRIEF! "if they pass parts of it, I am not going to veto those parts"

Here we go again. Just when I thought he had grown a set. That's right. Signal a willingness to give away the best parts. The man has no clue how to negotiate, how to maintain a position of strength, or how to come off as the winner. Way to take the wind out of our (okay, my) sails, Mr. President.

[DFab420]

10. Yea! who is he to say he'll sign whatever he can to get American's back to work. What a dick.

I mean it's not like the last 2.5 years have been full of congressional deadlock right?

[tblue]

13. Have you ever studied the Art of Negotiation?

You don't say up-front that you're willing to negotiate! Just like you don't pay the sticker price for a car. You hold firm, at least for a time, and give up your position in increments ONLY if you have to. The Repubs are masters of that. He stinks at it. Unless his goals are different from what he tells us. In which case, he's playing us. I don't honestly know and, at this point, it doesn't matter.

I want him to win his whole plan more than he does I guess. Stop rewarding weakness. It's not helping the president.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

14. His negotiating skills are abysmal ...

Even if he does eventually sign "parts" of the bill, he doesn't have to tip his hand the way he did.

[Amonester]

15. The point is, he will 'negociate' by calling them 'obstructionists' for...

'political gains' at the expense of the 'remaining' unemployed.

That's a pretty 'strong' negociating skill by itself (if you ask me).

[Life Long Dem]

11. "We are not in negotiation to break up the package."

No compromising. I like it but lets wait till we see the bill signed first.

[truedelphi]

16. Two major things that need to be added to the President's damn package -

One: STOP THE EVERLASTING OVER PRICED NON_WINNABLE WARS!

Two: Get Wall Street Firms to return the Nine Trillion to Thirty Trillion bucks
they "Borrowed" from the Federal Reserve.

[chill_wind]

17. GOPhers were signaling they would cherry pick the deals

as soon as the speech ended. It's hard to see what will stop them.