Obama seizes on GOP remarks to blame Tea Party for shutdown

[TomCADem]

Source: The Hill

Obama seized on remarks by Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-Ind.), who told reporters Wednesday that Republicans were “not going to be disrespected.”

“We have to get something out of this,” Stutzman said of the shutdown. “And I don’t know what that even is.”

Obama read the quote to his audience, with evident incredulity.

“If you're being disrespected, its because of that attitude you've got,” he said. “That you deserve to get something just for doing your job.”


Read more: http://thehill.com/video/administration/326379-obama-seizes-on-gop-remarks-to-blame-tea-party-for-shutdown

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This was an awesome way to nail Republicans with their own crazy rhetoric and illustrate that this nothing more than a huge, economically destructive political stunt by the extreme right.

[dflprincess]

1. The first thing I thought of when I heard Stutzman's comment

Was Glenn Close's line in "Fatal Attraction": "I won't be ignored Dan."....Only her character wasn't as crazy.

[SunSeeker]

3. LOL. Yeah, me too.

[DeSwiss]

6. Yep.

K&R

[ffr]

2. Watched his appearance video earlier

I had a bunch of zingers in it.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. Extortion.

America, meet bathtub.

[Coyotl]

5. Andy Borowitz:

[BootinUp]

7. Those are all excellent. nt

[1000words]

8. Would the GOP dare purge it's Tea Party members in an effort to regain "respectability?"

They've been using them as cover, anyway. Americans would buy it. The press would help, of course.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. They are already getting something just for doing their jobs--it's called

a very large salary and nice benefits, all that and lots of flex time, too.

[Cha]

10. Grazie, Tom~ More of the response to Stutzman from Prez..

"The president also mocked Rep. Marlin Stutzman (R-IN) for saying Wednesday that his party has "to get something out of" the shutdown fight, even though he doesn't "know what that even is.”

"You have already gotten the opportunity to serve the American people. There's no higher honor than that," Obama said to applause. "You've already gotten the opportunity to help businesses like this one. Workers like these. So the American people aren't in the mood to give you a goody bag to go with it. What you get is our intelligence professionals being back on the job. What you get is our medical researchers back on the job. What you get are little kids back in the head start.".

h/t geek http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3776241

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. K&R

[Stuart G]

12. K and R...nt

[Blue Owl]

13. SEIZE THEM!

Hoist 'em high upon their own pathetic petard.

[phleshdef]

15. RW Spin: Obama says working people don't deserve to get anything, have bad attitudes

Hehe, come on, you know its coming.