WHAT LANDSLIDE? Obama threatens vetoes and executive orders – including immigration reform THIS YEAR

• Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign,' the president warned
• He has only vetoed  two minor bills since his inauguration in 2009
• And 'I'll take some actions that some in Congress will not like,' Obama added, referring to threatened executive orders
• Those include a bold move on immigration 'before the end of the year'
• President sounded more like a winner than a loser despite his policies being repudiated on a national scale
• Never articulated a single policy where he would shift his position to align with GOP majorities in both houses of Congress 

By DAVID MARTOSKO, US POLITICAL EDITOR FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 15:20 EST, 5 November 2014 | UPDATED: 19:36 EST, 5 November 2014

President Barack Obama came out swinging on Wednesday just 14 hours after a Republican wave swept over the U.S. Congress in an election that largely repudiated his policies.

'Congress will pass some bills I cannot sign,' he said, threatening to dust off a veto pen that he has used only twice in nearly six years.

And he hinted at executive orders that will enrage conservatives. 

'I'm pretty sure I'll take some actions that some in Congress will not like,' he said. 'That's natural. That's how Democracy works.'

Much of reporters' tussling with the president focused on executive orders related to immigration reform – what some tea party Republicans call an 'amnesty' – which he plans to implement this year.

He acknowledged that the GOP won Tuesday's elections, but framed the results as a mandate for Republicans to work with him, instead of the other way around.

'Obviously the Republicans had a good night,' he said. 

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STUNG BUT SWINGING: Obama insisted that he won't budge on immigration and other key issues despite Republicans' 'wave' election on Tuesday

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FULL HOUSE: Reporters crowded into the White House's East Room to hear President Barack Obama react to his party's Tuesday night electoral drubbing

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NEW COLD WARRIOR? Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell (left) seized control of Democrats' previous congressional stronghold on Tuesday, but Obama behaved as though his party won 

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Voters give BIG THUMBS DOWN To Obama policies

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FIND THAT MESSAGE: Obama’s policies were on the ballot — we have it on good authority (Obama’s).  That includes “comprehensive immigration reform,” as embodied in the Chuck Schumer’s Senate “Gang of 8″ legalization + immigration increase bill. So how did it do? Let’s see:

Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas voted for the Gang of 8 bill. He’s GONE.

Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina voted for the Gang of 8 bill. GONE.

Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado voted for the Gang of 8 bill. GONE

Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska voted for the Gang of 8 bill. Almost certainly GONE

Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana voted for the Gang of 8 bill. She will probably be GONE after a January runoff.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/05/what-schumer-wrought/

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Fired-up Republicans ready to kick ass

BY JASON LANGE

WASHINGTON

1 OF 9. Hillary Clinton makes remarks at a campaign rally for Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown (R), Democratic nominee for Maryland governor, and Ken Ulman (L), Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor, at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland October 30, 2014.

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(Reuters) - A daunting reality looms for President Barack Obama's Democrats ahead of U.S. congressional elections on Tuesday: Voters from the Republican Party are much more fired up.

Reuters/Ipsos polling data shows Republicans are more certain they will vote, and see their ballot as a way to voice disapproval of Obama's handling of the Ebola outbreak and his health insurance reform law.

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Obamas Leadership Sucks

By Tim Stanley

1:50PM GMT 28 Oct 2014

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America is so over Obama. In 2008, the media and a majority of the voters were head-over-heels in love with the man who told them that “yes, we can” overcome war and recession.

By 2012, the amour had cooled but they were willing to give four more years to the guy who was – if nothing else – way hotter than Mitt Romney.

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6-Year Bitch

By Gary Langer

Oct 28, 2014 7:00am

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A double punch of economic and political dissatisfaction marks public attitudes in the closing week of the 2014 midterm campaign – a dynamic that reflects poorly on the president’s performance, bolstering his Republican opponehttp://goo.gl/4AxnHrnts.

The discontent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll is palpable. Despite its fitful gains, seven in 10 Americans rate the nation’s economy negatively and just 28 percent say it’s getting better. In a now-customary result, 68 percent say the country’s seriously off on the wrong track.

See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.

There’s no respite politically. Six in 10 express little or no trust in the federal government to do what’s right. Fifty-three percent think its ability to deal with the country’s problems has worsened in the last few years; among likely voters that rises to 63 percent.

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