President Obama issued Democrats a call to action on the economy Thursday night, pushing his plan for a mix of spending and tax relief while accusing some of the bill's critics of "phony arguments and petty politics."
Obama was speaking to partisan crowd of House Democrats at a retreat in Williamsburg, Va., and while praising the House for already passing his stimulus bill, he made a thinly veiled jab at Republicans for having "come to the table with the "same tired arguments and worn ideas" that helped to cause the current economic crisis.
But despite taking a sometimes humorous tone with his fellow Democrats, Obama hardly failed to underscore the potentially dire consequences of inaction. Without swift passage of his stimulus bill, Obama said, "an economy that is already in crisis will be faced with catastrophe." ...
Wouldn't the definition of petty be the President responding to alternative ideas by saying "I won"?
The only thing getting tiring here is the "do-as-I-say politics" of this administration so far ...
