McConnell: Obama needs to end campaign, talk to his party

[sushilover]

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that President Obama should spend less time trying to convince Americans of his tax-increase plans and more time meeting with Congress to try to work out an actual agreement.

With the "fiscal cliff" looming, the White House said Mr. Obama will do campaign-style events to try to drum up public support for his position that taxes must go up. But Mr. McConnell, Kentucky Republican, said the president should be using his persuasive skills to try to strike a deal in Washington, not sow partisanship outside of it.

"We already know the president's a very good campaigner. We congratulate him on his re-election. What we don't know is if he has the leadership qualities to lead his party to a bipartisan agreement on big issues," Mr. McConnell said. "The people he needs to be talking to are members of his own party so he can convince them of the need to act."


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[sushilover]

Campaigning and pandering to people of color, women and drug-addicts is easy.

Actually knowing what you're doing once you get into office is another story.

Barry Obama constantly fails.

[DaggerJohn]

McConnell's absolutely right on this one. Obama's out campaigning again.

[flyboy56]

We already know negotiating is not one of Obama's strong suits. So he is doing what he has always done and that is runaway and let his fan club do the negotiating for him.