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Obama Honors Fort Hood Shooting Victims
Commander in Chief Obama spoke at memorial services for the three Soldiers killed in this month #39;s Fort Hood Shooting. http://www.dvidshub.net/video/328612/ob...
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Obama to honor Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act
AUSTIN, Texas President Obama has tried to model Abraham Lincoln's team of rivals and Teddy Roosevelt's power of the bully pulpit. He's lauded Ronald Reagan's communication skills and linked himself to the Kennedy clan. He's praised his onetime nemesis, George W. Bush, as well as his onetime adversary, Bill Clinton.
But Obama has rarely cozied up to the predecessor some argue did more than any other modern president to pave the way for his election as the nation's first black president: Lyndon B. Johnson.
Five years into his presidency, Obama will head to Austin on Thursday to remedy what some Johnson admirers have described as a "pattern of omission." At a ceremony at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Obama will honor Johnson and the Civil Rights Act, signed 50 years ago this year.
But it is other elements of Johnson's legacy that have confounded and irked the Obama White House. As a president who tried to end two wars, Obama was not inclined to align himself with a president who escalated the Vietnam War.
More recently, any mention of Johnson and Obama in the same sentence is typically a comparison of their legislative prowess and Obama comes up short. In the age of partisan gridlock, the master of the Senate, as Johnson became known during his time as majority leader, has become for many Democrats an example of how a president once used government to do big things. By comparison, the current president has become a symbol of how little government can get done.
But the story of Obama's and Johnson's legislative records is more complex and with a more similar arc than sometimes described. Both passed sweeping legislation in short order, taking advantage of early political momentum, mindful, in Johnson's words, that a newly elected president is "a giraffe; six months later, he's a worm."
Both also faced great frustrations and backlash in later years. And like Johnson, Obama hopes history will prove his earliest major legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act, to be his most widely embraced.
For now, the White House is quick to note the many differences between the two presidents and their times.
Most obviously, Johnson benefited from large Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress when he pushed the Civil Rights Act, even as the country mourned John F. Kennedy. Those majorities jumped to a whooping 295-140 in the House after the 1964 election. When Obama passed his healthcare overhaul in 2010, Democrats had 253 seats.
But Johnson also embraced the sort of parliamentary maneuvers and horse trading that today would have good government advocates screaming about legislative payoffs and backdoor politics. And thinking Obama could wine and dine his way to moving his legislative agenda is to misunderstand the current political climate, White House aides argue. Political polarization has diminished common ground between the parties and left few moderates to woo.
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Obama Chides GOP For Rejecting Gender Pay Gap Bill
HOUSTON (AP) Denouncing the current Congress as the least productive in modern history, President Barack Obama chided Republicans on Wednesday for blocking a Senate bill aimed at narrowing the gender pay gap an issue Democrats are counting on to give them an advantage in the fall elections.
Revving up Democratic donors at an opulent home in Houston, Obama said the legislation advocated by Democrats seems like common sense to most Americans, creating a pathway to meaningfully enforce the concept of equal pay for equal work. He sought to portray Wednesday's failed Senate vote as part of a broader Republican strategy to obstruct any progress before voters go to the polls.
"You would think that that at this point it would not be a controversial proposition, and yet the Republicans in the Senate uniformly decided to say no," Obama said, hours after Democrats failed to secure enough votes to advance the bill.
Republicans say the bill could hinder employers from granting raises or permitting flexible hours for fear of costly lawsuits. Democrats disagree, and hope the issue will spur women to back them by wide margins in November.
In an equally forceful rebuke to Republicans, Obama accused the GOP of seeking to restrict access to voting in Texas and elsewhere. When one donor shouted out that the GOP effort was "un-American," the president concurred.
"How is it that we're putting up with that?" Obama asked incredulously.
Obama's remarks at a sprawling, resort-like home belonging to a prominent Texas attorney and Obama supporter came at the midpoint of a two-day Texas swing in which Obama was adopting multiple roles. Earlier Wednesday, he eulogized three soldiers who died last week in a shooting spree at Fort Hood, then hopped a quick flight to Houston for a pair of Democratic fundraisers. On Thursday, the president and first lady Michelle Obama will travel to Austin, where he will speak at a summit marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.
Making the pitch to the Democratic Party's high-dollar donors has become an increasingly frequent duty for Obama as his party girds for an election that could result in Republicans seizing the Senate and strengthening their hold on the House. Reprising an argument he's been making to Democrats across the country this year, Obama implored his party to take the midterm elections as seriously as they take presidential elections and to deny Republicans the chance to turn gridlock into a political advantage.
"Here's the disconcerting thing: Obstruction may actually be a good political strategy if Democrats don't vote in the midterms," Obama said, arguing that public opinion favors Democrats on the issues but that turnout is the party's Achilles heel. "We have this congenital disease, which is in midterm elections, we don't vote."
About 60 donors gave at least $16,200 to attend the fundraiser benefiting the Democratic campaign committees for House and Senate, Democratic officials said. At another private home in Houston earlier Wednesday, about 30 donors gave up to $32,400 each to boost the Democratic National Committee.
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