Obama Warns GOP He Plans To Use Veto Pen In 2015

Obama Warns GOP He Plans To Use Veto Pen In 2015

AP | By Josh Lederman | Posted: 12/29/2014 11:59 am EST
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HONOLULU (AP)- "Bracing to do business with a Congress run solely by Republicans, President Barack Obama is serving notice he has no qualms about vetoing legislation he dislikes.

This would be a significant change in style for Obama, come January when the new Congress will be seated with the GOP not only in command in the House but also the Senate as well.

He's wielded the veto pen through his first nearly six years very sparingly. Since taking office in 2009, Obama has only vetoed legislation twice, both in fairly minor circumstances.

"I'm going to defend gains that we've made in health care. I'm going to defend gains that we've made on environment and clean air and clean water."

Obama's warning to the GOP that he'll veto legislation if necessary to protect his agenda and laws like the Affordable Care Act came as he sought to set the tone for a year in which Congress and the president are on a near-certain collision course. Buoyed by decisive gains in last month's midterm elections, Republicans are itching to use their newfound Senate majority to derail Obama's plans on immigration, climate change and health care, to name a few.

To overturn Obama's veto, Republicans would need the votes of two-thirds of the House and Senate. Their majorities in both chambers are not that large, so they would still need to persuade some Democrats to defy the president.

But Obama said he was hopeful that at least on some issues, that won't be necessary, because there's overlap between his interests and those of congressional Republicans. On that point, at least, he's in agreement with incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

"Bipartisan jobs bills will see the light of day and will make it to the President's desk, and he'll have to make decisions about ideology versus creating jobs for the middle class," McConnell said in response to Obama's comments.

Potential areas for cooperation include tax reform and global trade deals — both issues where Obama and Republicans see at least partially eye to eye. Conversely, the likeliest points of friction surround Environmental Protection Agency regulations, the Keystone XL pipeline and Obama's unilateral steps on immigration, which let millions of people in the U.S. illegally avoid deportation and get work permits."

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IMO: As President Obama enters his last two years of his presidential tenure, he has emerged and spelled out what he is ready to do if encountered with the usual republican animosity, obstruction, and stalling. And the new weapon Obama will use is the veto pen, which has been impatiently waiting for use during the republican inspired government shutdowns, concentrated obstruction, and openly rancid and toxic treatment of a sitting president for six long years.

Now President Obama is reinvigorated for the big fight that looms in January as the Democrats try to get their priorities through Congress without any republican 3rd grade histrionics, because all he has to do is veto any crap bill that would be injurious to the people of America while Hillary gathers up the last of the information against all of her opponents that will be brave enough to run against her.

Come January the kid gloves come off, and the republicans still do not realize they are walking straight into a 2016 presidential trap, but hey, everybody's expectations of republican political expertise is around 17% so we all are expecting stalling, hostage legislation, obstruction, silly press conferences, the same old senile "wish list" bills that cannot be passed but will be sent to the Senate for long hostile debate, fiery press conferences showing the nation what Congress has become, the widespread corruption, the same old threats of another government shutdown, and then the bill being sent to the White House for the final meeting with the president's pen.