Obama to Senate Dems: ‘I’m going to play offense’, said he’s prepared to veto legislation, including an Iran sanctions package
Barack Obama made clear Thursday in a closed-door session with Senate Democrats that he’s prepared to veto hostile legislation from the GOP-controlled Congress, including an Iran sanctions package on the front-burner of Capitol Hill.
According to several sources at the Thursday summit in Baltimore, Obama vowed to defend his agenda against Republicans in Congress, promised to stand firm against GOP efforts to dismantle his agenda and called on his Democratic colleagues to help sustain his expected vetoes. The president also was explicit over his administration’s opposition to an Iran sanctions bill, promising to veto legislation with his administration in the midst of multilateral nuclear negotiations with the Middle Eastern regime.
Even though Obama’s position on Iran sanctions differs from a number of powerful Democrats, the session, several sources said, was more of a pep rally than confrontation. Despite his lame-duck status, the president promised that he would not sit on the sidelines in the next two years. He vowed more executive actions to implement his agenda, something bound to prompt anger from Republicans who have called the president’s unilateral moves, particularly on immigration, an unconstitutional power grab.
“I’m not going to spend the next two years on defense; I’m going to play offense,” Obama said, according to two attendees.
Obama signaled he would do so repeatedly, including on GOP-sponsored legislation to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
He is the destroyer and he is proud of it.
obama will be on a roll these last two years to destroy America, The Constitution and our spirit and traditions. To ward him off of these goals we have a weak GOP party with a few stalwart fighters led by famous compromisers. I hope we survive.