"While I will negotiate over many things, I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they’ve already racked up through the laws that they passed."
"President Obama is experiencing an approval bounce in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting tragedy, according to a new poll from Gallup. The president received a 56 percent approval rating Dec. 17-19 and a 37 percent disapproval rating. Gallup reports that was his highest three-day rating since Oct. 2009. Gallup, in its analysis, suggests that the shooting may have rallied Americans around the president or they approve of his handling of the tragedy."
"Leaders of both parties have pledged to work together in the coming weeks, and we are confident, as I just said, that we can reach an agreement. However, with less than one month left before a potential sequestration order would have to be issued, the Office of Management and Budget must take certain steps to ensure the administration is ready to issue such an order should Congress fail to act."
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“They pledged to stay in touch, particularly if opportunities to work together on shared interests arise in the future,” the statement said.
"In one sense, Lincoln was lucky. All he had to contend with was ingrained racism, a war-weary nation and daunting political arithmetic. What he didn’t have to deal with was…modern media."
Leaders of immigrant rights and Latino groups told reporters in a conference call on Wednesday that Obama owes his second term to Latino voters, and should repay them by passing comprehensive immigration reform. Obama promised to pass a law legalizing many of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country while he campaigned four years ago, and he’s been chastised by Latino leaders for breaking his promise.
“Obama is going to return to the White House more energized to take these issues seriously,” said Ben Monterroso, the director of Mi Familia Vota, a national organization that encourages Latinos to vote.
Latino groups to Obama: You owe Latinos the election, now pass immigration reform
"Part of the Obama strategy from day one was clearly to — in addition to promoting their candidate, and promoting their candidate’s reelection — make their opponent unacceptable,” a Democrat who has served as a senior presidential campaign strategist told Yahoo News.
“The whole race hinges on it,” the strategist said. “There are lots of things about which you can say ‘the race hinges on it,’ — get-out-the-vote efforts, for example. But if it’s as close a race as everyone says it is, this may be the decisive factor."
Bloomberg endorses Obama, and climate change is a major reason:
We need leadership from the White House – and over the past four years, President Barack Obama has taken major steps to reduce our carbon consumption, including setting higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks.
