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Washington (CNN) -- Days after the Democrats' brutal defeat in the midterm elections, President Obama said Sunday that he takes responsibility for his party's poor performance at the polls.
"The buck stops right here at my desk," the President said in an interview on CBS' Face the Nation. "And so whenever -- as the head of the party -- it doesn't do well, I've got to take responsibility for it."
Ahead of the election, Obama's approval rating was at presidential low, with more than half of all Americans saying they disapproved of the job the President was doing and only 41% saying they approved.
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AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster President Barack Obama signs two presidential memoranda associated with his actions on immigration in his office on Air Force One as he arrives at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, before traveling to Del Sol High School to speaks about the steps he will be taking on immigration.
HENDERSON, Nev. President Barack Obama is shrugging off Republican criticism of his actions to lift the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.
In an interview broadcast Sunday on ABC's "This Week," Obama said it was important that he act unilaterally to prioritize the deportation of criminals and recent arrivals and spare those who have lived here illegally for at least five years and have roots, including children who are American citizens.
"Why we would prefer a system in which they're in the shadows, potentially taking advantage of living here but not contributing?" Obama said in the interview, which was taped Friday in Las Vegas after Obama delivered an immigration speech there.
The president pointed to executive orders issued by Democratic and Republican predecessors and said presidents exercise "prosecutorial discretion all the time."
Obama's executive actions, which he announced Thursday, have drawn a withering response from Republicans, but also has laid bare divisions within the GOP over how to deal with immigration.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rejected Obama's claim of prosecutorial discretion. "Essentially he's gotten in the job of counterfeiting immigration papers, because there's no legal authority to do what he's doing," Cruz said on "Fox News Sunday."
A second Republican, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, said his party shares the blame for failing to get an immigration bill through the House of Representatives.
"Shame on us as Republicans for having a body that cannot generate a solution to an issue that is national security, it's cultural and it's economic. The Senate has done this three times," Graham said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Indeed, Obama cast his decision as the result of the Republican-led House's failure to act on a comprehensive immigration bill the Senate passed with bipartisan support in June 2013, or advance legislation of its own.
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President Barack Obama brought out his golf clubs today at a Nevada course that reopened just three weeks ago after being shut for about five years due to the recession and soaring water prices.
After playing more than 18 holes yesterday with former New York Yankee Derek Jeter at the exclusive Shadow Creek Golf Course, Obama today visited the Reflection Bay Golf and Beach Club in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb. Obama two days ago gave a speech on immigration at a local school.
Its great awareness for a course that just reopened three weeks ago, Matt Boland, the clubs director of sales and marketing, told reporters as Obama hit balls on the driving range.
The course, designed by Jack Nicklaus, sits beside 330-acre Lake Las Vegas, which was created by damming the Colorado River.
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulsons Raintree Investment Corp. bought the course earlier this year and brought it back to life. Its across the lake from a gated housing development that is home to celebrities including singers Celine Dion and Britney Spears. Only electric boats are permitted on the lake to keep the setting quiet.
Yesterday Obama and Jeter were part of a foursome that golfed at Shadow Creek owned by MGM Resorts International (MGM), which ferries high-roller casino guests to the course in private limousines. That course was built by casino magnate Steve Wynn and also hosted former National Football League coach Mike Shanahan and former Major League Baseball players Kevin Millar and Tino Martinez yesterday.
Las Vegas businessmen Stephen Cloobeck and Brian Greenspun filled out the Obama-Jeter foursome yesterday. Cloobeck is the chairman and founder of Diamond Resorts International Inc. (DRII), based in Las Vegas, and a Democratic political donor. He was among hospitality industry executives who met with Obama in May to talk about reducing wait times at U.S. airports to boost the tourism industry. Greenspun is chief executive officer of Greenspun Media Group, which owns the Las Vegas Sun newspaper.
Obamas golf partners today included former Tiger Woods coach Butch Harmon and White House aides Marvin Nicholson, Joe Paulson and Mike Brush.
Obama is fond of combining business travel with golf, spending most days during his two-week vacation on Marthas Vineyard in August on a course. In Washington, he plays golf most often at military bases. The trip to Las Vegas, with temperatures in the mid-60s Fahrenheit and sunny skies, gave Obamas game a respite from the capitals cold autumn weather.
To contact the reporter on this story: Angela Greiling Keane in Henderson, Nevada at agreilingkea@bloomberg.net
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