Political Quotes

“I was, frankly, shocked by the comments of the President of the United States yesterday at his press conference, telling Congress it needed to get to work. I guess the President forgot his party controls the Senate, and Republicans, being in the minority, have no ability to place matters on the agenda or to force a vote on issues over the objection of Senator Reid, the majority leader, and the Democrats who control the Senate. I guess the thing that rankled me so much is, rather than hold a press conference and tell Senator Reid to get to work on the budget, the President should have picked up his telephone or invited Senator Reid to come to his office and said: Harry, we need to pass a budget. We need to take care of this debt crisis. We need to take care of this cliff we are getting ready to fall off on August 2, that Secretary Geithner has warned us would have, perhaps, calamitous impacts on markets and on the economy and on interest rates charged on our national debt, among other things. I guess the most galling thing, listening to the President make this kind of outrageous speech, engaging in blatant electioneering, campaigning sort of rhetoric, class warfare, is that this comes from a person who, since January 2011, has had 31 fundraisers, including one tonight in Philadelphia.…”