Obama Recycles! (Republican Ideas)

Willie Sutton said he robbed banks because "that's where the money is". With that in mind, I give you Barack Hussein Obama:

And I’m going to be interested in hearing ideas from my Republican colleagues, as well as Democrats, about how we continue to grow the economy and how we put people back to work.

Of course he is interested in hearing Republican ideas. How else can he steal appropriate them for his own? TPM puts it this way:

President Obama proposed a two year freeze on federal employee compensation today, just ahead of a Tuesday post-election meeting with the GOP leaders. The proposal was originally put forward by Republicans in recent months -- and slammed by Democrats.

How is such a proposal greeted by Democrats when a Republican suggests it?

On the Senate floor in June, now-retired Sen. Ted Kaufman (D-DE) whacked a Republican amendment that would have frozen federal pay as an "assault" against "those who choose to serve."

"Now is not the time to talk about laying off federal workers, or freezing their pay," he said.

So, Republicans suggest a pay freeze and it's an "assault", Obama proposes one and it's "fiscal responsibility"? Yeah. Right.


In a stunning bit of hypocrisy, Obama set forth little one liners like:

It also means making sure that in the future we’re not dragged down by long-term debt.

No one has created as much long term debt for this country in so little time as the current Spendthrift-in-Chief. I guess that's why he puts it "in the future", because in the present, he's the King of the long term debt!

Going forward, we’re going to have to make some additional very tough decisions that this town has put off for a very long time

Too funny! Considering that his own party was blasting the Republicans for this very idea just a few months ago. Oh, yeah! The town has been putting it off! It's your town, Mr. Obama. You and Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have been running it (into the ground) for the last two years. The Democrats have been spending like drunken sailors for two years and now that they've maxed out the country's credit cards, now you say we need to exercise fiscal responsibility? I'd say your "chickens were coming home to roost", Mr. Obama, but that would only remind people of another time you weren't paying enough attention!

H/T Memeorandum