Obama: Republicans’ Refusal to Raise Taxes on the Wealthy Is What “Binds Their Party Together.” By Susan Jones. CNSNews.com, February 22, 2013. Video here.
Obama To Al Sharpton: View That “Nothing Is Important Enough” To Raise Taxes Is What “Binds” GOP. By Meenal Vamburkar. Mediaite, February 22, 2013. With complete audio.
Obama on Al Sharpton: It’s hard for Republicans to see the obvious answer. By Michal Conger. Washington Examiner, February 21, 2013.
Obama: Cuts that Hurt the Economy are GOP’s Raison D’etre. By John Sexton. Breitbart, February 21, 2013. Audio at YouTube.
Obama: Helping Rich “Thing That Binds” GOP Together. Washington Free Beacon, February 21, 2013.
Obama: Helping Rich “The Thing That Binds”Republicans Together. Real Clear Politics, February 21, 2013.
And Another Thing About Obama’s Appearance Al Sharpton’s radio show! By Debra Heine. Breitbart, February 22, 2013.
Mark Levin blasts Obama for smearing American people, and GOP for throwing in with Obama. The Right Scoop, February 21, 2013.
Obama on Republicans:
My
sense is that their basic view is nothing is important enough to raise taxes on
wealthy individuals or corporations. And they would prefer to see these kinds
of cuts that could slow down our recovery over closing tax loopholes, and
that’s the thing that binds their party together at this point.
Heine:
This is
our president talking about us – all
Republicans. We only care about the rich. We are motivated only by a selfish,
base desire to protect ourselves from paying our “fair share,” “millionaires
and billionaires” that we all are. Our
selfishness is what binds us together.
It
couldn’t be that we think more taxes would kill jobs and slow down the economy –
it couldn’t be that we believe we have a serious debt problem and spending has
to be reduced to prevent a financial meltdown.
My God.
We’ve
gotten so used to being demonized in this way, we’re numb to it – it barely
causes raised eyebrows anymore. But I still remember how shocking it was in
2009 to see the President of the United States behaving like a rabble-rousing
community organizer – writ large – gleefully pitting Americans against each other.
It took
this epic rant from Mark Levin to make me notice that, yeah, Obama was
attacking us, again, and wow – how galling of him to use this class warfare
argument in light of the fact that he and Michelle are the ones constantly running off to West Palm Beach,
Hawaii, Aspen, Martha’s Vineyard, etc.
Where’s
the Republican leadership? Why do they let him get away with that? Marco Rubio
touched on Obama's tendency to impugn the motives of his adversaries in his
response to the SOTU. That was for me, the best part of his speech because it
was a stake in the heart of Obama’s favorite Alinsky tactic. No wonder all libs
wanted to talk about afterward was Rubio’s drink of water.
Republicans
need to be calling Obama out on that every time he does it, and honestly
explaining to the American people the dire straits we’re in, instead of
cowering in fear and worrying about who gets the blame.
