On message: Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess

[jefferson_dem]

Obama urges GOP to ‘get a mop’ and clean up Bush administration mess
By Sam Youngman - 10/20/09 08:34 PM ET

President Barack Obama urged Republicans to help clean up the mess the Bush administration left behind in comments at a Tuesday night fundraiser.

Obama, speaking to donors to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), said he didn’t have sympathy for those “sitting on the sidelines and rooting for failure.”

He then embraced a new campaign by the DNC that invites Republicans to “grab a mop” and help clean up what Democrats say is a mess created by the Bush administration.

“I don’t mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that’s what I signed up to do," Obama said. “But while I’m there mopping the floor I don’t want someone saying ‘You’re not mopping fast enough or you’re not holding the mop the right way.’ Grab a mop! Why don’t you help clean up?”

The president also noted the support healthcare reform has garnered from big-name Republicans such as the former Senate GOP leaders Bob Dole and Bill Frist.

“You’ve got a whole bunch of Republicans who are saying ‘Yeah we should do this” except those are all retired Republicans – Bob Dole and Bill Frist - and last time I checked they are not socialist,” Obama said. "And they think it’s important to get this done. That’s a model for what everyone needs to be thinking.”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/64027-obama-urges-gop-to-get-a-mop-and-clean-up-mess

[FreakinDJ]

1. I heard the sound bite on the news on my way home

as Obama was addressing a group of Wall St bankers. It sounds like it is being very well received by the media

Most Americans want Wall St and Financial Institutions reigned in again. They caused the crash of 29 and they caused the crash of 2008

[Cha]

2. Calling it like it is..

Thanks President Obama.

[LakeSamish706]

3. I didn't listen to his speech, but that sounds awesome to me... Quit the damn critizing...

and roll up your sleeves. Of course that would also apply to some DU'ers on this site as well.

[frog92969]

4. Isn't that Holder's obligation?

Failing that, the ICC?

[FreakinDJ]

5. Holder has been actively going after Medicare fraud by clinics

and medical suppliers

[frog92969]

6. Sometimes I really like that guy

and sometimes I worry.

When you say medical suppliers, I hope that includes BigPharma.

[FreakinDJ]

7. 1 Big Fish, and a whole bunch of little ones

try googleing "Medicare Fraud"

The Obama administration has been using demographic computer models to spot problematic areas. When they dig deeper they fraud

[Captain Hilts]

8. He also chewed out progressives. He's somewhere in between. Where exactly, who knows? nt

[Clio the Leo]

9. I wonder if his original remark about the mop was off the cuff....

..... I bet it was.

Brilliant. President Midas struck gold on that one.

[NYC_SKP]

10. Obama said, "That's a Socialist Mop." LOL! YouTube link in here:

YouTube Link: (58 seconds in)
Posted by FoX... :wtf:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWzL2R-YzQM

Obama: Don't Tell Me I'm Holding The Mop Wrong
Even in the midst of a difficult and taxing health care fight, the president hasn't lost his sense of humor--especially when making fun of his opponents. Last night at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in San Francisco, the president offered an analogy for opponents of Demcoratic reforms: when I'm cleaning up your mess, don't tell me how to hold the mop...and don't tell me the mop is socialist. From a White House transcript of Obama's remarks:

What I reject is when some folks say we should go back to the past policies when it was those very same policies that got us into this mess in the first place. (Applause.)

Another way of putting it is when, you know, I'm busy and Nancy busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess --- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. (Applause.)
Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. (Applause.)
You're not mopping fast enough. (Laughter.)
That's a socialist mop. (Laughter and applause.)
Grab a mop -- let's get to work.

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/10/obama_dont_tell_me_im_holding_the_mop_wrong.php

:rofl:

[vaberella]

11. I'm starting to think that only retired Repubs can be able to say the truth.

Th others are on the leash by their racist crazy constituents.