Obama confirms Republicans and Democrats are on the same team. On ESPN, says, "in politics we're all on the same team." Limbaugh: "Boehner is making himself an MVP up there at the White House." Obama is trying to smooth things over for Boehner

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12/12/14, "President Obama: In Politics You Are On The Same Team," Breitbart, Spiering

"After last night’s contentious House vote passing the $1.1 trillion cromnibus spending bill, President Obama went on ESPN radio to remind Americans that they were all on the same team when it came to politics.

“You know in politics sometimes people forget that we’re actually all on the same team, and that’s the American team,” Obama said during an interview with ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd. Obama pointed out that in sports, people were used to fierce rivalries, citing the Eagles and Raiders stadiums as places where "folks are hollering at you and throwing stuff at you." 

“Sometimes I think in politics we forget that we’re not actually on different teams, we’re all trying to make sure people have jobs, have opportunity, have health care, our kids get a chance to go to college and that we’re keeping ourselves safe from terrorists,” he mused. “And it would be useful for us every once in a while to just remind ourselves of that.”"

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Added: Rush Limbaugh: "Boehner is making himself an MVP up there at the White House:"  

12/12/14, "Boehner Throws in with Obama," Rush Limbaugh transcript

"RUSH: Obama went on ESPN Radio today to tell people there that he really cares about sports. That's what he's really into most of the time, but he takes time out to do president stuff. During the interview he was talking about the similarities, comparing politics and sports.

OBAMA:  The one difference is that, y'know, in politics, sometimes people forget we're actually all on the same team, uhhh, and that's the American team.

RUSH: Right.

OBAMA: A-a-and, you know, it's one thing in sports if, y'know, you go into the, uh, Eagles stadium or -- or the Raiders stadium (snickers) and folks are hollering at you and you're the opposing team. Sometimes, uh, I think in politics we, uh, forget that we're not actually on different teams.

RUSH:  Well, you could fool me!  You could fool me.  So you know what he's trying to do here, is trying to act bipartisan all of a sudden.  Now, I'm sure this has something to do with this stupid omnibus thing here. There are a lot of people trying to save John Boehner's bacon right now is what I think is going on, including Obama. Boehner is making himself an MVP up there at the White House.  

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