[ti:After 'Shellacking' of Democrats, What Now for Obama and the Republicans? ]
[ar:Steve Ember]
[al:IN THE NEWS]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is IN THE NEWS
[00:07.71]in VOA Special English.
[00:10.90]A "shellacking"
[00:12.64]is an especially bad defeat.
[00:15.32]And that was how President Obama
[00:17.56]described the elections on Tuesday.
[00:20.70]His Democratic Party
[00:22.84]lost control of the House
[00:25.03]of Representatives.
[00:26.28]The Democrats retook
[00:28.31]the House four years ago
[00:30.61]from the Republican Party.
[00:32.40]Now the Republicans
[00:34.54]will have a solid majority.
[00:36.63]And they have narrowed
[00:38.62]the Democrats' majority in the Senate.
[00:41.21]REPORTER: "What does it feel like?"
[00:42.47]BARACK OBAMA: "It feels bad."
[00:44.46]Mr. Obama told reporters
[00:47.90]the message he heard was
[00:49.93]that voters want more
[00:51.48]cooperation in Washington.
[00:53.61]BARACK OBAMA: "What they were
[00:54.77]expressing great frustration
[00:55.86]about is the fact that
[00:56.96]we haven't made enough
[00:57.90]progress on the economy."
[00:58.81]But that was not how it sounded
[01:01.00]to Representative John Boehner.
[01:03.25]The Republican from Ohio
[01:05.29]is likely to become
[01:07.03]the next House speaker.
[01:08.72]He says voters want
[01:11.15]the president to change direction.
[01:13.74]JOHN BOEHNER: "It is pretty clear
[01:14.84]the American people want us
[01:15.89]to do something about cutting
[01:16.80]spending here in Washington.
[01:19.07]And helping to create
[01:20.47]an environment where we
[01:21.73]get jobs back in our country."
[01:22.98]The new Congress opens in January.
[01:26.07]President Obama is inviting
[01:28.55]leaders of both parties
[01:30.54]to a meeting at the White House
[01:32.45]on November eighteenth.
[01:34.44]MITCH MCCONNELL: "If the administration
[01:35.50]wants cooperation,
[01:36.30]it will have to begin
[01:37.66]move in our direction."
[01:39.75]Senate Republican leader
[01:41.84]Mitch McConnell recently said
[01:43.88]his party's top political goal
[01:46.13]is to make sure Mr. Obama
[01:49.12]is a one-term president.
[01:51.47]In a speech on Thursday,
[01:53.21]the senator noted that
[01:55.25]he had been criticized
[01:56.55]for his comments.
[01:57.89]But he said if the main
[02:00.14]legislative goals of the Republicans
[02:02.52]are to replace the health care law ...
[02:05.31]MITCH McCONNELL: " ... to end the bailouts,
[02:06.66]cut spending and shrink the size
[02:09.94]and scope of government,
[02:10.99]the only way to do all
[02:12.04]of those things is to put
[02:12.93]someone in the White House
[02:13.93]who will not veto any of those things."
[02:15.57]President Obama says
[02:17.51]he is willing to try
[02:18.95]any good ideas the Republicans
[02:21.44]have for job growth.
[02:23.28]But he says he is not open
[02:26.27]to major changes
[02:27.56]in the health care law.
[02:29.71]BARACK OBAMA: "I think we'd
[02:30.61]be misreading the election
[02:33.06]if we thought that
[02:35.20]the American people want to see us
[02:36.64]for the next two years
[02:37.53]re-litigate arguments
[02:40.37]that we had over the last two years."
[02:41.66]John Fortier studies politics
[02:43.81]for the American Enterprise Institute.
[02:46.14]He says opposition parties
[02:48.98]have worked together in the past.
[02:51.22]JOHN FORTIER: "Divided government
[02:52.52]-- Congress of one party
[02:54.22]or part of the Congress,
[02:55.26]and a president of the other
[02:56.36]-- is sometimes very productive."
[02:57.86]Mr. Fortier says it might
[03:00.05]be harder this time,
[03:01.14]in part because attention now
[03:04.04]turns to the twenty twelve
[03:06.03]presidential campaign.
[03:08.07]He says Republican candidates
[03:10.57]will try to appeal to
[03:12.01]a voting population that
[03:14.86]has become more conservative.
[03:16.70]Four in ten Americans
[03:19.24]who voted this week said
[03:21.43]they considered themselves
[03:23.07]Tea Party supporters.
[03:24.86]The Tea Party movement
[03:27.40]heavily supported Republican candidates
[03:30.15]who shared its conservative positions.
[03:33.29]The movement wants limited government,
[03:36.58]less federal spending and lower taxes.
[03:40.46]But the Tea Party is made up
[03:43.20]of many different groups.
[03:44.99]So the exact number of winning
[03:47.72]candidates who share its values is unclear.
[03:52.05]Media reports differed widely,
[03:54.74]from about thirty candidates
[03:56.98]nationally to more than one hundred.
[03:59.38]On Friday, the Labor Department said
[04:03.61]the economy gained more than
[04:06.05]two times as many jobs in October
[04:08.79]as most economists expected.
[04:12.12]It was the best report since May.
[04:15.01]Still, the unemployment rate
[04:17.89]stayed at nine and six-tenths
[04:20.68]percent for the third month.
[04:23.07]President Obama called
[04:25.51]the numbers encouraging
[04:27.40]but not good enough.
[04:29.69]He spoke before leaving for India
[04:32.72]on the start of his trip to Asia.
[04:36.11]And that's IN THE NEWS
[04:38.45]in VOA Special English.
[04:41.03]I'm Steve Ember.
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