Barack Obama Assign threat whispering Democrats - politics

President Barack Obama had a fight Tuesday with his Democratic Senate colleagues spent - and it is well placed to win this battle against the narrow-minded projects.

Obama surprise after legislators in his State of the Union address to a threat fatty all bills with veto spends grew frustrated Senate Democrats obviously, dismissal of the president's reputation as a coup that Early would have no impact on the federal budget deficit.

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But the reality is that Democrats have a political environment that is virtually impossible to get all the marks of this Congress, if Obama and congressional Republicans to maintain their opposition faces. Abandoned by its Chairman, Senate Democrats have essentially boxed in on the subject. Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) said no money passed legislation to spend in the House and Senate Republicans have also adopted a moratorium on pet projects. It is, House Republicans, Senate Republicans and the president would cave where appropriate ear tags become law this year.

Democrats are not happy, even if they know they have little chance of winning the fight.

"Resist the opposition Republican President, it is very unlikely that this will happen," said Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the largest dedicated the Senate. "But I think it ' policy is very shortsighted, and it is very harmful to Louisiana and a set of states. "

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) said that if the Senate does not spend money for their projects, they are not the Chair of the money in areas that spend the most.

"If he does something with ear tags in their veto, I'm not mad, we will not go forward, it," Nelson said after the State of the Union speech. "You see, if everyone abandons spends, then I have for 0.07 percent under and it'm on the budget, we will not allow to spend for the president, we will not allow bureaucracy to move, we will remove it from the budget. "

Earlier in the day was the first reaction from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), no children.

"I think it's a question that every president wants to remove the power of the legislature of the state," Reid said after a luncheon caucus. "I think it's the right thing to do. I do not think be useful. There is much talk of pretty, but this is only the president more power. He has a lot of power. Got "

When asked after the speech, when he could spend a forerunner in this political climate, Reid would say, "You heard what I said earlier today."

The veto threat is a remarkable shift from just a year, when Obama used the State of the Union, the challenge Congress to make a minimal effort to publish all requests and reservations on a website before the vote.