Newt Gingrich: Obama bullying House GOP
President Barack Obama is attempting to “bully” House Republicans over the debt ceiling, and the GOP should seek a different fight, Newt Gingrich said on Tuesday.
“This president is deliberately seeking confrontation,” Gingrich, a 2008 presidential hopeful, said on CBS’s “CBS This morning.” “I think he’s going out of his way to bully the House Republicans.”
Gingrich said that instead of getting bogged down in a battle over raising the debt ceiling, House Republicans should find leverage by turning to continuing resolutions and the sequester.
“Asking Barack Obama not to be a big-spending, high-taxing liberal is a denial of everything we’ve learned about him in his career,” Gingrich said. “It’s much better for the House Republicans to say, ‘This is what we’re prepared to do: we’ll pass a year-long continuing resolution for national security…There are dozens of places you can dramatically change spending without having to get involved in a general crisis over the U.S. debt.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/newt-obama-bullying-house-gop-86206.html?hp=r4
= new reply since forum marked as read
They're falling apart.
It sounds like even he realizes that President Obama actually has the upper hand here and knows this is a real loser for Republicans. He should know, after all. Of course, he helped create this mess by stoking the crazies in the first place.
Cue the violins!
...hey Newt, have you forgotten when House Republicans BULLIED your ass out of the Speaker's chair?