{"id":3160,"date":"2013-03-06T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2013-03-06T12:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:58:53","slug":"obama-reaches-out-to-gop-on-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/03\/obama-reaches-out-to-gop-on-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Reaches Out to GOP on Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Barack Obama is following through on his search for a \u201ccaucus of common sense\u201d with that rarest of presidential commodities \u2014 his own time.<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s poor relationships with most rank-and-file congressional Republicans are well-known. He rarely calls lawmakers personally \u2014 something that was especially true in the past year and a half as he geared up for his re-election campaign.<\/p>\n

But after spending weeks on an air war against the GOP and failing to get the party\u2019s leadership to bend on the sequester, his tack changed after the March 1 deadline for automatic spending cuts hit.<\/p>\n

In his news conference that day, Obama could find no fault in his own approach to getting a deal \u2014 infamously dismissing the idea that he could employ a \u201cJedi mind-meld\u201d to get Republicans to budge. But he is now picking up the phone and calling them, and not just members of Republican leadership.<\/p>\n

Obama in recent days has called a handful of rank-and-file Republicans, and Press Secretary Jay Carney has softened his own tone as the White House implores the GOP to compromise. \u201cThe president is interested in, you know, finding members of the caucus of common sense and working with them to bring about a resolution to this challenge,\u201d Carney said. The president\u2019s calls aren\u2019t solely about the budget either \u2014 Carney noted Obama has also been reaching out on immigration and other pieces of his agenda.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> Obama Reaches Out to GOP on Spending : Roll Call News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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President Barack Obama is following through on his search for a \u201ccaucus of common sense\u201d with that rarest of presidential commodities \u2014 his own time. The president\u2019s poor relationships with most rank-and-file congressional Republicans are well-known. He rarely calls lawmakers personally \u2014 something that was especially true in the past year and a half as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,20],"tags":[26,42,1659,180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}