Obama warns Tea Party holding back recovery

AFP
August 17, 2011

President Barack Obama accused Republican Tea Party activists of holding back the economic recovery Tuesday, hiking pressure on Congress to pass his yet-to-be unveiled jobs plan.

On the second day of a three-day bus tour of midwestern states, Obama expanded on his theme that political brinksmanship in Washington was harming America’s capacity to speed up the slowed recovery.

“The only question is if, as a nation, we’re going to do what it takes to grow this economy and put people back to work right now,” Obama said as he opened a Rural Economic Forum in a small town in northeastern Iowa.

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9 Responses to “Obama warns Tea Party holding back recovery”

  1. And while Obama blames the Tea Party, his wife wastes the working class’s money:

    First Lady Michelle Obama’s Servant List and Pay Scale

    The First Lady Requires More Than Twenty Attendants (that’s 22 attendants to be exact)

    1. $172,200 – Sher, Susan (Chief Of Staff)
    2. $140,000 – Frye, Jocelyn C. (Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Policy And Projects For The First Lady)
    3. $113,000 – Rogers, Desiree G. (Special Assistant to the President and White House Social Secretary)
    4. $102,000 – Johnston, Camille Y. (Special Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the First Lady)
    5. $100,000 – Winter, Melissa E. (Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
    6. $90,000 – Medina , David S. (Deputy Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
    7. $84,000 – Lelyveld, Catherine M. (Director and Press Secretary to the First Lady)
    8. $75,000 – Starkey, Frances M. (Director of Scheduling and Advance for the First Lady)
    9. $70,000 – Sanders, Trooper (Deputy Director of Policy and Projects for the First Lady)
    10. $65,000 – Burnough, Erinn J. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
    11. $64,000 – Reinstein, Joseph B. (Deputy Director and Deputy Social Secretary)
    12. $62,000 – Goodman, Jennifer R. (Deputy Director of Scheduling and Events Coordinator For The First Lady)
    13. $60,000 – Fitts, Alan O. (Deputy Director of Advance and Trip Director for the First Lady)
    14. $57,500 – Lewis, Dana M. (Special Assistant and Personal Aide to the First Lady)
    15. $52,500 – Mustaphi, Semonti M. (Associate Director and Deputy Press Secretary to The First Lady)
    16. $50,000 – Jarvis, Kristen E. (Special-2Assistant for Scheduling and Traveling Aide to The First Lady)
    17. $45,000 – Lechtenberg, Tyler A. (Associate Director of Correspondence For The First Lady)
    18. $43,000 – Tubman, Samantha (Deputy Associate Director, Social Office)
    19. $40,000 – Boswell, Joseph J. (Executive Assistant to the Chief Of Staff to the First Lady)
    20. $36,000 – Armbruster, Sally M. (Staff Assistant to the Social Secretary)
    21. $35,000 – Bookey, Natalie (Staff Assistant)
    22. $35,000 – Jackson, Deilia A. (Deputy Associate Director of Correspondence for the First Lady) (This is community organizing at it’s finest.)

    There has NEVER been anyone in the White House at any time who has created such an army of staffers whose sole duties are the facilitation of the First Lady’s social life. One wonders why she needs so much help, at taxpayer expense, when even Hillary, only had three; Jackie Kennedy one; Laura Bush one; and prior to Mamie Eisenhower social help came from the President’s own pocket.

    Note: This does not include makeup artist Ingrid Grimes-Miles, 49, and “First Hairstylist” Johnny Wright, 31, both of whom traveled aboard Air Force One to Europe.

    FRIENDS…..THESE SALARIES ADD UP TO SIX MILLION, THREE HUNDRED SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS ($6,364,000) FOR THE 4 YEARS OF OFFICE. AND WE ARE IN A RECESSION. WELL…..MOST OF US ARE.

    • This is aristocracy.

      These people think they’re entitled to your hard-earned money.

      When is Obama’s next vacation? Thursday. This man takes more vacations than a French travel guide.

      And when will he throw another Whitehouse hip-hop bash, using taxpayer money to hire entertainment?

      They are living like British royalty while you do everything you can to scrape by. And they are living this way on your dime.

  2. All Obama can do is blame others. I have been talking to a lot of Democrats who plan to vote for Rick Perry if he is the GOP nominee. Note that those same people think that Ron Paul is a wacko on the fringe. Just saying… If Ron Paul’s libertarian ideas could win the majority of Americans, he would run in the Libertarian Party like he did in 1988 when nobody voted for him…wait that won’t work… Just like the communists in the Democrat party won’t run as communists (because nobody would actually vote for them), Libertarians won’t run as libertarians (because nobody would actually vote for them). If your platform is worthy of electing, why hide who you are? Ron Paul runs in the GOP because he know that the only way anyone will listen to him whatsoever is to run as a Republican and water down the vote. Vote for Ron Paul in the primaries if you want four more years of Obama. He will not win because most Americans have common sense enough not to let heroin and prostitution be legalized. It’s common freakin’ sense! I prefer a strong America, not a weak America like Ron Paul proposes. America is destined to lead the world, not be isolated from it. A Perry nomination equals landslide victory and sending Obama home to Chicago to write books with Bill Ayers.

  3. Oh, hi AJ. I know it was your idea to always call Obama, Soetoro. As you can
    see, I’m the only one with the balls to actually do it.

  4. I’m starting to think that Soetoro was raised in the UK. All he does is talk, lie, and
    steal.

    • Well, according to his grandmother (on record) and his wife, Michelle (on record), he was born in Kenya. That makes him a British subject.

      What better way for the Anglo-American Establishment to stick a “thumb” in our eye, than to have them “slide” this bozo into the office of POTUS so that he can take a match to our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, something the Round Table groups of Cecil Rhodes’/AAE’s minions are dancing over even now…

  5. I quote President Dashed Hopes, No Change, No Leadership, Lowered Credit Rating and Much Much Worse:

    “The only question is if, as a nation, we’re going to do what it takes to grow this economy and put people back to work right now”

    “Right now?” You mean, after two and a half plus years, *right now* you want to put people back to work?

    WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING FOR OVER TWO AND A HALF YEARS, YOU TWIT?

  6. For most of us who subscribe here, we are able to “translate” the propaganda issued by Oblammy, like this current “Tea Party Bashing” bus tour of his– the line that “the Tea Party is blocking or holding up economic recovery” is of course nonsense– but because HE is the one saying it, the actual translation should read “the Tea Party stopped me from raising your taxes!”

    ……which is a GOOD thing……

  7. Shut up and go print some more money…

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