Obama's challenge is taming leftist Dems

[IndianaGreen]

Source: WTHR-TV

Quayle: Obama's challenge is taming leftist Dems

Updated: July 18, 2009 11:44 AM EDT

Stateline, Nev. - Former Vice President Dan Quayle gives President Obama high marks for surrounding himself with quality advisers on national security and the economy. But he says the verdict is still out on whether his Democratic administration will govern as liberally as he campaigned.

"I think his biggest challenge is to tame the left wing of his party," Quayle said in an interview with The Associated Press at Lake Tahoe.

"I guess we'll find out how `left' Obama really is because he's going to have to make some very tough decisions where he is either going to have to go with the left wing of his party or stare them down and govern more like (ex-president Bill) Clinton governed, which is sort of center-left. That jury is still out," said the Republican who served in the first Bush administration.

Quayle, who is playing golf at Lake Tahoe through the weekend at the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship, said Democrats had been out of power for eight years so "they just tried to throw everything out there and see what stuck and see what they wanted to do."

"To get elected, he clearly ran sort of center-left and we (the Bush-Quayle ticket) ran center-right. That's the normal situation. Same way with Reagan," he said in an interview after he finished his opening round Friday in a group with former Notre Dame basketball coach Digger Phelps and television personality Maury Povich.

"Now I think they will have to make some tough decisions," Quayle said. "He knows the deficit is menacing. Whether he is willing to stare down the left wing of his party and say, `Guys, we've got to get this budget in order before we take on too many things,' I don't know. I think the jury is still out."


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According to Dan Quayle, and DLC and Blue Dog Democrats, the problem lies with the very same people that gave Democrats control of Congress and the White House.

Has anyone here read what happened to the Kronstadt sailors in 1921? The very people that brought down the evil Tsar were themselves accused of being counter-revolutionaries. History repeats itself!

[Vincardog]

1. And we should listen to Former Vice President Dan Quayle WHY? These thugs have no problem with

throwing hundreds of billions down the rat hole to help Haliburton.

[ananda]

2. Yuck.

The leftwing is so marginal right now that there really
isn't much left to "tame."

And that is at the heart of what's wrong with America today.
It's the rightwing that needs "taming."

[Jennicut]

3. Dan Quayle??? What rock did he crawl out of? He would be one of the worst VPs if not for Cheney's

power grabbing. Shut up Dan Quayle, does anyone care what he thinks? Anyone?

[whistler162]

7. Hey we just bailed him out of financial problems

with our bailout of Chrysler! So why shouldn't we hear more from him!

http://www.godeke.org/News/PsiPhiAlumnus_DanQuayle3.htm

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. Exactly. He's no longer worst VP (Cheney) and no longer remembered as the dumbest Republican (Bush)

Everything's coming up Quayle!

[stevenleser]

4. LOL, Dan Quayle, LOL!

It makes me laugh just to read the way he constructs sentences.

QUAYLE/PALIN 2012 !!!!!! And I have the perfect campaign slogan.

Stupid^2, because America needs MORE STUPID!

[SeattleGirl]

5. He still thinks he's relevant??

:rofl:

[IndianaGreen]

6. Well, at least he is now living in Arizona, where his family is from

Indiana no longer has to be burdened with the Quayles and the Pulliams.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

8. Still have "my man mitch" though.

[IndianaGreen]

10. and the puke Evan Bayh

but I am not voting for either of them.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. Well, Mitch isn't running again, without a break, so nobody has the chance to vote against him.

[LiberalFighter]

13. He campaigned on small town values but what did he do when he lost re-election.

He went to Carmel Indiana just outside of Indianapolis instead of back to Huntington where they are mostly inbred. Then moved to Arizona where he use to spend his summers when he was a kid.

[lunatica]

12. Dan Quayle meets Sarah Palin for a spelling bee

The competition will include putting the words in a sentence. The winner will be given a phonetic dictionary slash pictionary of Moran signs captioned with the correct spelling in large font.

[LiberalFighter]

14. Rules will include disqualification when either one uses the phrase "You Betcha"

or "The future will be better tomorrow."