Pot, Meet Kettle: Obama Tells Republicans To Stop The “Demagoguery”
Today’s latest bit of chutzpah comes from the same president who demagogued entitlement reform just two months ago. And demagogued the notion of debating Obamacare before voting on it as “bickering” and “games.” And demagogued the Supreme Court justices during his 2010 State Of The Union speech. And demagogued the American people as “not thinking clearly” when we disapprove of his policies.
via Jake Tapper: As the dozens of members of the House Republican Conference left the White House where they’d spoken with President Obama about the deficit and job creation, Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., had a one-word review of the mood in the meeting.
“Frosty is the word,” Gingrey said.
The president added that he is all for a reduction of demagoguery, an issue he understands since he is the ‘job killing, death panel, probably-wasn’t-born-here president.’
…The House Budget Committee chairman said he thought they were having a year of cooperation with the White House and House Republicans able to work together on preventing the Bush tax cuts from expiring, and a budget for the rest of the year, but President Obama’s GWU speech was the opposite.
The president said in that speech that Republicans don’t care about kids with autism and other disabilities, Ryan said.
Healthcare is the driver of our debt right now, Ryan said. He also described his plan for Medicare reform for the president, saying Democrats were mischaracterizing it. Our program is not a voucher plan, Ryan said, it is premium support — which he then explained.
Ryan told the president that he is making a sincere attempt to address a problem, and he challenged the president: “Mr. President, the demagoguery only stops if the Leaders stop it.”
His fellow House Republicans gave him a standing ovation.
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