Obama: GOP not sure ‘what it’s for’
President Barack Obama is chiding Republicans for criticizing his agenda without being able to name priorities of their own.
“The Republican Party right now hasn’t sort of figured out what it’s for,” Obama said during a Monday interview with regional press, according to a transcript posted Tuesday by the Louisville Courier-Journal.
“As a proxy, they’ve just decided we’re going to be against whatever the other side is for,” he said. “That’s not what’s needed in an economic crisis. You can play that game maybe in the early ’90s, when basically we were pretty prosperous. Right now, everybody has got to pull together.”
The president credited Republicans for cooperating on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and for lending their support for his Iraq plan, but Obama singled out GOP attacks on his budget as disingenuous.
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