Submitted by: Debbie Warren
Obama Taunts GOP: 'You Think We're Stupid?'
Friday, 15 Apr 2011 12:50 PM
President Barack Obama was caught on an open microphone taunting Republicans over their attempts to repeal healthcare reform and their failure to defund Planned Parenthood.
Obama was meeting privately with backers at a fundraiser in Chicago on Thursday night when his remarks were accidentally piped back into the White House press room.
Reporters there heard him tell the donors: “I said [to Republicans], ‘You want to repeal healthcare? Go at it. We’ll have that debate. You’re not going to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?”
Obama also complained about GOP attempts to defund Planned Parenthood by attaching a bill to the resolution to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown.
“Put it in a separate bill,” Obama said he told House Speaker John Boehner and his staff. “We’ll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don’t try to sneak this through.”
Obama was heard commenting that some government workers are “slugs and not trying to do their job,” according to CBS News reporter Mark Knoller. He complained that “we can’t get our phones to work” in the White House.
The open mic also caught the president disparaging Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s Budget Committee chairman who has proposed sweeping cuts in federal spending.
“Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he’s just being America’s accountant,” Obama said in comments reported by USA Today.
“This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my healthcare bill, but wasn’t paid for . . . So it’s not on the level.”
Another prominent Democrat, Sen. Charles Schumer, was caught in a similar gaffe in March, when he was heard instructing fellow Democrats to paint Republicans as extremist tea party zealots in the budget debates.
Schumer was about to start a conference call with reporters on March 29 and was apparently unaware that many of the reporters were already on the line.
“I always use the word extreme,” Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”
He also told his colleagues to characterize the spending cuts called for by Speaker Boehner as extreme.
Like Obama, Vice President Joe Biden was also victimized by an open microphone. In March 2010, as President Obama was preparing to sign the healthcare legislation, Biden was heard to say, “This is a big (expletive) deal.”
Debbie Warren Comments:
Reporters there heard him tell the donors: “I said [to Republicans], ‘You want to repeal healthcare? Go at it. We’ll have that debate. You’re not going to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?”
Obama also complained about GOP attempts to defund Planned Parenthood by attaching a bill to the resolution to fund the federal government and avoid a government shutdown.
“Put it in a separate bill,” Obama said he told House Speaker John Boehner and his staff. “We’ll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don’t try to sneak this through.”
Obama was heard commenting that some government workers are “slugs and not trying to do their job,” according to CBS News reporter Mark Knoller. He complained that “we can’t get our phones to work” in the White House.
The open mic also caught the president disparaging Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s Budget Committee chairman who has proposed sweeping cuts in federal spending.
“Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he’s just being America’s accountant,” Obama said in comments reported by USA Today.
“This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted for the prescription drug bill that cost as much as my healthcare bill, but wasn’t paid for . . . So it’s not on the level.”
Schumer was about to start a conference call with reporters on March 29 and was apparently unaware that many of the reporters were already on the line.
“I always use the word extreme,” Schumer said. “That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”
He also told his colleagues to characterize the spending cuts called for by Speaker Boehner as extreme.
Like Obama, Vice President Joe Biden was also victimized by an open microphone. In March 2010, as President Obama was preparing to sign the healthcare legislation, Biden was heard to say, “This is a big (expletive) deal.”
Debbie Warren Comments:
That is what I cannot seem to get across to the average person I speak to. They say "Who cares how we get him out? As long as we get him out..." They cannot see that It is IMPERATIVE that this happens the only way it should happen. We can't recover what has been reduced to a puff of smoke; but we can nullify everything he signed and ordered if this is handled legally and to the letter of the law. We can mitigate further and future damage. It is imperative that his crimes be exposed and acknowledged fully and prosecuted...along with the gang of thugs that created the fairy tale and abetted the crimes. Now Brewer is one of them, in my opinion. Each one is co-opted through threats, promises, payoffs, bribes, extortion and I'm not making excuses for any of the cowards and idiots who keep squandering real opportunities. We cannot allow what has been done to 'stand'.
The paltry $ 352 Million that was apparently cut from this year's budget is a bad joke with no equal and no good laugh for anyone but the scumbags who had a good laugh with the Usurper. The Muslim in Charge gave more than that away in 'personal' gifts (from our collective checkbook/debt to at least three Muslim friends...that much is documented. Three times that amount disappeared into the coffers of scumbags who will use it...HOW?!
I watched Stephanopoulis badger Trump on Good Morning America this morning and was proud of Trump. When George asked who 'they' are...Trump said Obama and his 'minions'. He stuck to his guns and argued without blinking that there was much more to the problem than a mere B.C. and that there was a world of difference between the COLB and a real B.C. He refused to give an inch on what they have learned in their investigation and George was visibly frustrated and unable to ruffle Trump. He told George that he (George) had been co-opted by the Obama machine. Apparently it got much more heated and detailed and you can watch the entire interview online, but what they showed on mainstream TV was pretty amazing. If they thought they could make Trump look bad; I believe they made a huge mistake. As for the other issues that George tried to use to discredit him or make him look like a Liberal who is playing us and trying to 'look' Conservative...his answers about universal health care, abortion and more were what I expected. He said that what he believed a few years ago was based upon what he thought America could afford at the time and that things had happened even in his personal associations to change his mind. No matter how hard George tried, he could not equate what Trump has supported in the past with what the Obama freaks have proposed and passed...he was adamant that they were very different things.
They have had to acknowledge he is ahead in all but one poll. With at least 6 in 10 Americans questioning who the slob in the White House really is and whether he is even a citizen...and expressing their concern that he is actually hiding something; doesn't that explain why Trump is ahead in so many polls?
He is a shrewd businessman and very likely taking advantage of an amazing opportunity. Is this not America? Doesn't he have that right? I'm not ready to look a gift horse in the mouth and I don't think the majority of this country is ready to do so either. He understandably expressed his concern for the changes that would take place in his life and that of his family. He does not NEED to prove anything or be President. He could continue to live a very nice life if that is all he wanted. He has power, fame, money and much success to his credit AND he is a Natural Born Citizen.
I also watched an interview with a local newsman who was given access to Obama. He really pissed off Obama by asking the same question at least three times. Obama's body language was obvious when he lied about Texas and showed his contempt in his language and facial expression. That jackass is one flashpoint away from showing his proverbial 'ass' and losing his cool. He even berated the newsman, Brad Watson, for pushing harder for the answer he was not getting from Obama...and I was surprised they showed that skinny stinking fraud acting like a Dictator with the 'mere' citizen who had the audacity to question 'him'. It's enough to make you vomit.
Debbie Warren
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