Columbia, S.C. – Sen. Jim DeMint tells National Review Online that he is tired of being treated like a child by President Obama.
“He believes people are stupid, or at least not smart enough to catch onto him,” DeMint says, shaking his head, days before the president unveils his jobs plan. “In some ways, to position himself as a leader, he calls us all in like children in the Congress, coming over to announce his jobs program. At least the implications, the subtleties there, suggest he’s leading us. That’s what he’s trying to do. But from a businessman’s perspective, it’s really intolerable.”
“He’s going to put some things out there and dare Republicans to block it,” DeMint predicts. “If we agree with it, then we own it with him. If we block it, then he can blame us when the economy doesn’t get better. So he’s playing a game with this. And he’s going to try to radicalize Republicans by calling us tea-party Republicans.”
“That’s going to be his strategy,” DeMint says. “He can’t run on his record. So it’s got to be psychological warfare, demonizing the Tea Party, creating a boogeyman.”
And the hypocrite is out making a rancorous, partisan speech, taunting Republicans just days before he goes before Congress and pleads for everyone to put politics aside and pass his program.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHa Ha Ha! I had to type in 'weasel words' to leave a comment!
I hope Senator DeMint would have the guts to stand up in the middle of O's speech and either call him a liar or just walk out. Now that would be fun!
But seriously, he is absolutely correct. And O doesn't just treat congress like kids, he talks to the whole country as if we were 4 year olds. "Just eat your peas" has to be one of the most juvenile statements ever made by a president.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThat sounds like the makings of a great campaign commercial. Clips of the president saying things like, "Eat your peas" followed by the slogan: "Vote for Big Daddy Obama, because he knows better than you do."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIt is embarrassing to watch this President speak. Does he not realize we have his number now? He is delusional and I really wonder what the heck is going on inside this White House, especially after I just heard that he is removing all but 3000 troops from Irag at the end of this year! Good grief. We can't afford four more years for sure but can we afford 16 more months of this crazy ideologue?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJim, where where you when Joe Wilson (one of our own) not only disrespected President Obama but the Presidency itself, when he yelled out? You can't have it both ways people either you are for whats right or not! I didn't like George Bush, but I would have never said some of the things some are saying, it is embarrassing. As mush as I hated when Blacks & Browns were yelling racism for everything we didn't agree with at the beginning of Obama's presidency, me and a lot of others are beginning to see some of you just took off the Klan hoods and are no walking around pretending to be children of God!! I can't be the only one who loves God and all of his children. We must stand up when we see hate peek its head, because as a woman it wasn't long ago when we were also looked upon as second class citizen. " Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Martin Luther King Jr.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThe only color in this equasion should be green, representing both the ammount of dollars that are not in the economy right now because of failure to lead on jobs creation, and the ammount of debt we are amassing trying to purchase prosperity. The policies are failed, the president continues to fail on policy and yet there are some who want to make it a color issue. Your thinking is simply wrong, much like our President. ps turns out Joe Wilson was right, HE LIED!! (Not that Jos should have said so in that venue, and I might add that Senator DeMint said words to that effect.)
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Megan123", how much are you being paid to push the "racism" BS?
Are you proud of being a liar?
Are you proud of fomenting hatred?
If your hatred results in violence, will you be ashamed, or proud?
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse*standing ovation*
THANK YOU, ROB.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseConcern trolling is so 2008.
Who knows though, this may be the only Republican in the country who is "starting to see" that the Tea Party is racist, despite using "blacks and browns" without irony.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGood name for another troll - hitnrun - was it OFA or Media Matters or one of the other Soros funded groups.
Great captcha - lame duck - may Obama live up to the name.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseJoe Wilson didn't "yell".
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYou're hyperventilating & pushing a breathless agenda. Doesn't float.
LOL
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTroll.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"Who's 'we', white man?"
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse...Tonto
Well, if you don't like the treatment grow some and do something about it. I'm sick of Congress letting the executive branch usurp Constitutional power and just twiddle their thumbs in response. Try acting like men for a change. Surprise us.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAmen, Perplexed. I almost scream at the fundraisers who call me with the same accusation: GET SOME ...! We have an imperial president with no respect for the law, the constitution or the (Republican) Congress. I just find it incredulous that Obama can get away with what he is doing. Is the executive branch so powerful, and the legislative so weak that this can happen? Or is the GOP afraid of violating some vapid "decorum?" I am truly in a snit about the 2012 election. Obama will win it by stealth, lying, cheating, stealing, whatever it takes. NEVER has a sitting president been so small and snide as this guy. Chicago politics.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseCongress should enthusiastically tell the president that his idea to get Americans back to work is wonderful and that they are totally on board. They should also tell him to send the full plan so that they can evaluate it. The plan needs to include how the spending increases will be paid for. For example, the plan needs to be specific in how much of a tax increase is needed or what spending needs to be cut to offset the increase in spending.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseClearly Senator DeMint does not want to listen to President Obama speak at a joint session of Congress. Hence, the whining.
And can somebody please explain what this means? -- "But from a businessman’s perspective, it’s really intolerable."
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI can't imagine ANYONE wanting to listen to Barack Obama speak, given that what he says either 1) consists of empty platitudes and/or insults directed towards his political opponents, 2) amounts to 'I want my way!' , or 3) both.
What is insufferable, to a businessman or to any other intelligent person, is the astonishing arrogance the man exudes. He, who clearly has little understanding of business, and who spent most of his legislative career voting 'present', now insists that he is the one to lead us to the promised land if only we will be good little boys and girls and do what he wants. Jim Demint isn't buying it, and I'm not either.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseFortunately, American businessmen aren't as stupid as you make them out to be:
"McClatchy reached out to owners of small businesses, many of them mom-and-pop operations, to find out whether they indeed were being choked by regulation, whether uncertainty over taxes affected their hiring plans and whether the health care overhaul was helping or hurting their business.
Their response was surprising.
None of the business owners complained about regulation in their particular industries, and most seemed to welcome it. Some pointed to the lack of regulation in mortgage lending as a principal cause of the financial crisis that brought about the Great Recession of 2007-09 and its grim aftermath."
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