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Republicans point to a few key moments in which the president's tone and timing inflicted damage. Only three weeks after a lofty inauguration speech, he ripped Republican critics of his economic stimulus plan at a Democratic retreat in 2009. "We're not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that, for the last eight years, doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin," he said. Two years later, he lit into the Republican deficit-reduction plan in a speech, as House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan awkwardly sat in the front row. Last month, just a few hours after the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, the president unloaded on Republicans for failing to agree to a spending plan. "Are they really willing to hurt people just to score political points?" he demanded.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/who-broke-washington/barack-obama-a-divider-not-a-uniter-20131003
Barack Obama: A Divider, Not a Uniter
Obama's biggest failing has been his inability to build relationships and make deals on Capitol Hill.
By Beth Reinhard
October 3, 2013
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