Obama: “I Won”
As if that picture of him in the Oval Office, two oaths of office and all the pomp and circumstance of the most expensive Presidential Inauguration ever didn’t make clear, Barack Obama won, people.
Still, the new President felt compelled to remind Congressional Republicans of that during a White House meeting on the ongoing economic crisis yesterday.
The comment came after Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) told Obama that cutting income taxes would do more to stimulate economic growth than handing out a $500 individual payroll tax refund, which the President has proposed as part of the latest multi-billion dollar federal bailout.
“I won,” Obama responded to Cantor’s income tax suggestion. “I will trump you on that.”
Democrats say the President was joking, Republicans say they didn’t appreciate being the punch line.
Of course, the sad reality behind all of this early partisan sniping is that there’s not much difference between Republicans and Democrats in Washington these days.
Which is why Cantor’s GOP has forfeited its right to pretend that it cares about the taxpayers of this country.
After all, Obama isn’t departing all that significantly from the interventionist approach adopted by former President George Bush, who joined with Congressional Democrats and Republicans last year in shoving the first multi-billion bailout down the throats of the American taxpayers.
And the bailouts, of course, are only one part of the $10 trillion government “rescue” package.
Anyway, Obama did win. Sort of like George Bush won (sort of) eight years ago.
It’s the taxpayers who keep losing, though, which doesn’t look like it’s going to change no matter who’s in the Oval Office.
Comments
By Linda Simmons on January 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Im not shocked at that comment, after all hes spent more on his party of Change than any other Pres. elect. At the expense of the tax payer a historic time,,, Yea wait til the tax payer cant keep the wagon full of corrupt and greedy self centered politicians. I say we take thier salaries for a year and all the perks that go with it and we can bail ourselves out of trouble, Tax payers pay for the dumb, incompitant moves that the Gov. puts on us. The day has come when people need to pay attentiion to their politicians that they elect. Half the people that voted for Obama thought Palin was his running mate!!!!Please people dont go back to your little shell after the elections, we are in a very serious time and we need to be on top of the Gov. and make them answer for their mistakes that affect us THE TAX Payer…. 50% only pay the taxes in this country, but i doubt everyone knows that.LS Get Real