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Obama calls midterm elections 'humbling,' promises to do better
He acknowledged the 'shellacking' Democrats took in the midterm elections. But
at his press conference Wednesday, Obama did not back away from policies that
got him in trouble with voters.
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President Barack Obama listens to a question during a news conference in the
East Room of the White House Wednesday.
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By Linda Feldmann, Staff writer / November 3, 2010
Washington
A subdued President Obama acknowledged in a press conference Wednesday
afternoon the “shellacking” his Democratic Party suffered in Tuesday’s midterm
elections, and promised to work with the Republicans on a range of issues,
foremost the economy.Skip to next paragraph
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Mr. Obama called the election results “humbling.” Indeed, there was no way to
put a good face on a midterm result in which the Democrats lost at least 60
seats and control of the House, saw their Senate majority reduced, and lost 10
governors’ seats.
"Some election nights are more fun than others,” Obama said in understated
fashion, just two years after his own historic election. “Some are
exhilarating, some are humbling.”
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While the president stated that he has to work harder at building consensus, he
did not back away from the very policy choices he made during his first two
years in office that got him in trouble, namely the big economic stimulus
package, the auto industry bailout, comprehensive health-care reform, and
financial regulatory reform.
“If right now we had 5 percent unemployment instead of 9.6 percent
unemployment, then people would have more confidence in those policy choices,”
Obama said.
He said he won’t rule out any ideas based on which side of the aisle they come
from, and that he’s interested only in what works. But the rub comes in
determining up front what will “work.” The top issue going forward is the
future of President George W. Bush’s tax cuts, which are set to expire at the
end of the year. Obama said this has to be addressed during next month’s
lame-duck session of Congress, but there is still no bipartisan agreement over
what to do with tax cuts for top earners. Obama wants to let the tax cuts
expire on the top 2 percent of taxpayers, but Republicans want those cuts to
continue, especially since some small-business owners would be affected.
Republicans say any tax increase now will hurt the economic recovery.
Some analysts have predicted that the next two years will be dominated by
partisan gridlock, but Obama laid out several areas of potential collaboration.
On energy, he suggested Democrats and Republicans can work together on how best
to develop the nation’s natural-gas resources, work on energy efficiency, and
ensure that electric cars are developed in the United States. He also spoke of
restarting America’s nuclear industry “as a means of reducing our dependence on
foreign oil and reducing greenhouse gases.”
Obama said he saw “potential common ground” on education.
“I think everybody in this country thinks that we've got to make sure our kids
are equipped in terms of their education, their science background, their math
background, to compete in this new global economy,” the president said.
Obama identified the debt and deficit as another area where “the American
people are absolutely concerned,” and looked ahead to the release Dec. 1 of the
recommendations of his bipartisan deficit commission. He said he hoped the
members will arrive at a consensus on eliminating programs that don’t work,
cutting back on government spending that is inefficient, and streamlining
government. But he did not mention entitlements, the growth of which sits at
the heart of any discussion on the nation’s looming fiscal crisis.
One reporter asked Obama to reflect on his personal reactions to the midterms,
starting with what it felt like to see so many people he had campaigned for
lose – starting with Rep. Tom Perriello (D) of Virginia and Gov. Ted Strickland
(D) of Ohio.
“It felt bad,” he said, to laughter. “You know, the toughest thing over the
last couple of days is seeing really terrific public servants not have the
opportunity to serve anymore, at least in the short term.”
Obama was also asked if he would change his leadership style, prompting a
soliloquy on, as Obama put it, the “inherent danger in being in the White House
and being in the bubble.” He said he would persist in trying to get out and
engage with average Americans as much as possible. He was not asked to address
head-on the common complaint that he had failed to communicate adequately the
content of his initatives – namely, the stimulus and health-care reform – but
he suggested that even recent predecessors who were great communicators had
suffered similar fates in their first midterms.
“I think it's important to – to point out as well that, you know, a couple of
great communicators, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, were standing at this
podium two years into their presidency, getting very similar questions because,
you know, the economy wasn't working the way it needed to be,” Obama said.
It went without saying that both presidents also won reelection. Obama has all
but said he will run again in 2012.
There were some light moments in the hour-long session. One reporter brought up
the frequent campaign line about how the Republicans had “driven the car into
the ditch” and that the Democrats were working hard to get it out of the ditch.
At one point during the campaign, Obama had joked about how the Republicans
were just sitting on the sidelines, sipping Slurpees.
How about having House Speaker-to-be John Boehner over for a Slurpee? the
reporter suggested.
“They’re delicious drinks,” Obama smiled. “The Slurpee summit. That’s good. I
like that.”
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