Obama rewards McConnell and GOP partners against the American people who like Obama are obsessed with silencing free speech. Multi-millionaire Obama demands people no longer listen to bloggers and talk radio, says they stoke opposition to US transformation just to make money-Politico

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10/17/13, "Obama hits bloggers, radio 'talking heads' who 'profit from conflict'," Politico, Dylan Byers

"Demanding a change to the way business is done in Washington, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged lawmakers to ignore lobbyists, bloggers, "talking heads on radio" and "the professional activists who profit from conflict."

"How business is done in this town has to change," Obama said during a press conference. "Now that the government is reopened and this threat to our economy is removed, all of us need to stop focusing on the lobbyists and the bloggers and the talking heads on radio and the professional activists who profit from conflict, and focus on what the majority of Americans sent us here to do — and that's grow this economy."

"There's a lot of noise out there, and the pressure from the extremes affect how a lot of members of Congress see the day-to-day work that's supposed to be done here," he said.

That last line reflects an argument, made by several pundits in recent weeks, that far-right pundits like Rush Limbaugh have pressured Republicans into backing down from the extremist wing of their own party. 

Obama's press conference came on the day after Congress voted to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling." via Drudge

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2007- GOP clubhouse hack and aspiring lobbyist Trent Lott said "talk radio is running America:"

6/15/07, "Senate Leaders Agree to Revive Immigration Bill," NY Times, R. Pear, J. Zeleny:

"The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the (immigration) bill, said:

• “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with

• that problem.”

At some point, Mr. Lott said, Senate Republican leaders may try to rein in “younger guys who are huffing and puffing against the (immigration) bill.”"...

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Comment: The 'younger guys' have a better memory of those who elected them. The GOP has to get rid of that.

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In 2010, after historic Tea Party landslide, Trent Lott now lobbyist and Beltway ruling class tyrant, panics. Goes on war path to co-opt and silence duly elected Tea Party people:

11/20/10, "Revolutionary Do-Over," Wall St. Journal, John Fund
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"Former GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, now a big-time Washington lobbyist, has already told the Washington Post that

it's imperative for his tribe to "co-opt" the tea partiers arriving in D.C."...

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Comment: The GOP destroyed the two party system during the Bush years for the purpose of merging with democrats. After the Nov. 2008 elections it was no longer a separate political party. They ran a 2012 Romney so-called campaign but it was just for money, certainly not ideology. Romney and Obama were "the same person, just had different people around them," as someone said (I believe George Soros said it). They all love big gov., massive executive branch, and no middle class. If there must be a small middle class, it absolutely must be silent.

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