Plouffe: GOP Picks Tea Party House Members Over 300 Million Americans
- Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:22pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Top White House adviser David Plouffe made the rounds on Sunday‘s news talk shows to lay out the theme of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign: Republicans running for president would “take dead aim” at middle class Americans.
Speaking Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Plouffe said the election will offer voters a “profound choice.” The race, he says, will be “a tough, close election” that Obama will narrowly win. Plouffe says Obama will defend his record on health care and avoiding a depression.
Plouffe, Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, said that Republican candidates share the goal of loosening restrictions on Wall Street bankers and giving more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. He said all of the benefits going to the rich would be paid for by seniors and the middle class.
On “Fox News Sunday,” Plouffe had a heated discussion with host Chris Wallace, as Plouffe placed the blame for the deadlock in Washington on House Leadership putting the wants of 30 Tea Party Republicans in front of the needs of 300 million Americans.
“We’re not going to make progress on the deficit, on things we can do right now for jobs, on tax cuts, unless those 30 or 40 Tea Party members of the Republican House stop being the focal point of our discussion,” Plouffe said to Fox News.
Senate Democrats defeated a House GOP-backed stopgap continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 18 by a vote of 59-36 on Friday. The $1.04 trillion measure contained $3.7 billion for disaster aid, $200 million of which was offset by cuts to green energy programs, including a loan account that once helped fund the now-defunct, controversial solar panel firm Solyndra.Plouffe insists that Congress must pass a resolution to keep government functioning without tying diaster aid to offsets.
While Plouffe placed a large portion of the blame for failure in Washington on the Tea Party, he defended the “Buffet Rule” and called on Congress to pass the President’s jobs plan,which along with Obama’s recent rhetoric, has been labeled “class warfare” by critics.
“The American people are screaming out, saying it’s unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyist have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here,” said Plouffe on Fox News.
On ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour, Plouffe said Obama’s jobs plan would make it to the Senate floor by October.
“We need action. The American people know that the economy is too weak; too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games or are we going to say we can do something right now to create jobs?”
The $447 billion jobs plan would be a two-pronged approach of spending initiatives and tax cuts. Last week Mitch McConnell called it “a hodge-podge of retread ideas aimed at convincing people that a temporary fix is really permanent.”
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
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Comments (162)
welloddyfriggindah
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:06pmI hope to God Republicrats are watching these interviews…the Administration’s twisting and lying is so obvious!!!! HEY, maybe THAT’S what they mean by transparent!!
Report Post »Wheelerdude
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:06pmDear Mr. Plouffe, the Tea Party represents a majority of American citizens. Who, as you apprear to be missing, are the REAL leaders of this Nation. Don’t believe me? Read the Constitution!!
Report Post »artistskeptic
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:16pmYou flatter this idiot implying he could possibly read.
Report Post »patriotgal
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:43pmHe says O will win by a small margin. Hummmm I pray the States have a voter fraud team in place to stop his acorn and hundreds of other groups that commit voter fraud. Check out this 11 min youtube about rigged voter machines it was in a US House hearing afew years back.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEzY2tnwExs&feature=player_embedded
MIBUGNU2
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:55pmWhen these Clowns say, “Modest Adjustments” You had
Report Post »best cover your AZZ….These POS have been raiding SS and
MediCare for years, and Obama TOOK 500 BILLION…..
BILLION $$$$$$ out of the Medicard To Fund OBAMA-CARE.
Now he is talking about making “MODEST ADJUSTMENTS”
Obama could Not handle My Home Budgit,let alone the Country’s
Budget..
Skrewedretiree
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:57pmI am a retired federal employee. The Unions help elect Obozo and tell me that hey represent the workers. But: Obozo, Pelosi and Reed cut the cost of living allowance the federal workers once had, then raised our taxes to take us back to what we were taking home over 2 years ago! Now, get this: We worked for what we have. You and the Democrats LIED to us, or we NEVER would have served and worked hard for -in my case- 35 years. I didn’t ask for anything extra, just what I worked for and was promised in return. But you and your Democratic Nazis have taken that and taken BACK what I earned, so you could send it off to MUSLIM countries in Foreign Aid, and then tell me to do less. Tell, me A-hole: WHAT IS MY “FAIR SHARE”? I can tell you this. I AM THE TEA PARTY! The Gadsden (Tea Party) flag has flown over my house for over a year, ever since the Dems screwed the retirees (including the military retirees and ALL government employees). The much maligned Tea Party is growing, and growing VERY strong day by day. READ IT AND WEEP! I can’t wait until 2012!
By the way: I stopped voting for Democrats in 1987. I have NEVER regretted my choice.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:15amMaybe the push for marijuana legislation is because everyone is using it in the White House. Most of the stories this weekend has someone connected to the administration saying absurd things.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:22amMiddle Class Americans … are the TEA Party .. along with other “class” Americans .. we ARE America .. the “progressives” are less than 20 percent … WE SURROUND THEM!
TEA!
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:42amYeah, we certainly don’t want you guys tying expenses in with offsets (or cuts)…I mean, when I wound up needing 4 new tires for my truck, I just charged it and continued spending as usual…what good would it do for me to cut my trash cill in half for awhile, or go with a cheaper monthly phone plan until it’s paid off, or reduce the times we got out a month and so on.
Nope…much, much better if I just pay the bare minimum on a high interest card for the next 5 years to pay them off. You see…I learned this amazing financial strategy from the dumb-o-crats in Washington.
Why should I pay my debts off when I’ll likely die before I actually go broke and have to suffer…isn’t that the plan these lifer politicians have? Why should I make my voters face reality and do the right thing and possibly not get re-elected…when I can just spend and spend, promising them the moon while keeping my cushy “gimme a bribe under the table” job…heck, I’ll be dead long before the USA defaults and the riots and huge death toll begins.
Report Post »SteveSD
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:45amNo no no.. you guys have it all wrong. This isn’t the right approach. The correct approach is to say to him ‘You know what, you’re absolutely right. The Tea Party is only an insignificant fraction of America. In fact, you should just ignore them; they are irrelevant. They couldn’t possibly have any effect on the elections. These aren’t the droids you are looking for. Move along; move along.
:)
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:02amIndeed, this is the greatest fear of the old DC Guard; they fear the people holding them accountable after so many years.
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 1:16amDear Lord, I pray that he is wrong about Obama winning by a small margin. Lord
Report Post »please be with us and help protect this country from Obama and those like him that
want to ruin our way of life. I pray that the 4 yrs of his administration was your way of
waking this Country up, and getting Americans back involved in Making this Country
Great and Strong again. We are a proud Nation but had lost our way. Please give us
the strength to over come the obstacles we have faced and still have to face. Please
help us to bring you, Our Lord Jesus Christ back into our homes, work places and
schools.“ WITH YOU ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE” !! AMEN
Dagger82
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:20am@ SISSYKRATZ
Amen, amen I say to you ~ AMEN!
Tea
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:49amSKREWEDRETIREE – Look what they have done to the military retirees. At least you didn’t get moved all over the worl every year or so. Serve tours in combat zones and be seperated from you family for long periods of time. Now they are not only messing with your pay but your medical care and Obumbler wants us to get civilian medical coverage.
You think you were skrewed – we not only got skrewed but the a holes think their jobs should give them more percs than they give to the men who face danger so they csan keep those jobs.
OMG -.Psalm 109:8
Report Post »OneNationIndivisable
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:03amThe spin meister, get this guy off TV
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:18amLooks like a practice run to see if they can sell their BS. Think debate
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:55amtoo bad one of the talking heads in the media wouldn’t ask what the hell they are going to do about the debt , the deficit and spending. the country is still on the road to financial hell and no one is doing anything about it.
Report Post »phil65
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:12amClass warfare, it is the only thing that demoncrats have left. If they can possibly get the welfare class to rise up against the job producers their ultimate goal can possibly be reached.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 8:24amDEFEAT ALL the Leftists in 2012; The Democrat party must be made irrelevant for a generation or three………..they are no good and want to destroy the country.
Report Post »shazam3
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:43amHe’s just another Obama idiot sent out to the networks to spew Marxist talking points. His answers were just a joke. If this was real conversation between two parties instead of PC correctness he would have been laughed at. His statements/answers should have been answered by Wallace “are you joking, you’d better sober up and get real”
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:30amThe majority of that 300 million PUT those reps in the House. Wake up and smell the TEA
Silversmith
Report Post »ddg7
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:04pmI hope this guy continues to have nightmares about the Tea Party.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:10pmWHEN do you think these Socialist talking heads are going to figure it out that TEA PARTY represents the TRUE AMERICAN, the PATRIOT, THE REAL AMERICAN !!! FROM EVERY part of AMERICAN LIFE, FROM EVERY BACKGROUND, EVERY ETHNICITY, AND ALL PARTIES!!! THERE ARE SO MANY INDIES AND DEMS THAT WE’RE MEETING WHO HAVE HAD ENOUGH of this Commie/Socialism.
Report Post »Do you think they are beginning to get the message? THEY are the 20% minority …those Socialist/Communists…those pompous, arrogant Czarists…those hysterical liars. BUH BYE!!!
dmforman
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:05pmThis guy and Obama need to understand what a millionaire looks like. Someone earning $250,000 is not a millionaire. He is upper middle class. By the time Obama gets done, we will have no middle class, just the rich elite, and the poor who will need the government to survive.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:45amALL those who are sick of these ARROGANT LITTLE OBAMA TWITS .. Raise YOUR HAND!
TEA!
My Hand is RAISED!
Report Post »Xlugon Pyro
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:04pmI laughed.
Actually I didn’t, but in my head I did.
Another person who has no idea what the Tea Party is. Typical of the left wing, and of course laugh-worthy. Ignorance is funny, right?
I also don’t like looking at him. My eyes hurt.
Report Post »uncleherbert
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:04pmHe is a socialist. The Tea Party will get rid of him and Obama.
Report Post »2012hey
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:04pmWaaaah – they are listening to their constituents.. how dare they!
Report Post »Pat Alexander
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:02pmThe Tea Party House & Senate members were elected to cut up this administration’s credit cards…
They are off to a good start.
Mr Plouffe: Your boss will not be re-elected. If we had a Republican Senate, he would already have been impeached & removed from office.
And 100 years ago you and the rest of the un-American bass turds that slither through the White House would be marched to the gallows.
Fortunately for you, today‘s politicians don’t have the stomach to treat treason and unconstitutional acts properly….
Report Post »apophis
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:50amIF what you are saying is true then everyone in congress and millions of federal and local government workers including police, fire, teacher, sub contractors who build roads and schools, people who receive food stamps. Watch out it is conspiracy and your part of it.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:59pmWhen I first read the headline, I thought ‘Plouffe’ was supposed to be some type of ignorant verb; I now see it’s just an ignorant Democrat.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:22pmDavid is kinda like a blind guy crossing a busy road, not going to hear
Report Post »that electric car (Tea Party) a comin’,,not gonna know what hit em !!
M 4 Colt
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:54amNo Sir, he is not ignorant, he along with his boss ARE VERY DANGEROUS to the republic
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:56pmDemonCrats are DISGUSTING
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:13amThey are GOOD !! They can look you right in the eye and
Report Post »LIE to You, till the cows come home..
You know what they are saying is wrong, but they will keep
Lying….Lying….Lying.!! and Obama is the best at it…..It’s
easy for him, he doesn’t look anyone in the eye, because
he is to busy reading from the teleprompter…No Problem !!
meritocracy
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:54pmWhy does “Plouffe Boy” think that the 30 Tea Party only represent themselve, they represent millions of people. His understanding on how a republic works seems to be lacking.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:20pmHe also forgets the butt-whippin’ & focus of the election… go to Washington and stop this administration from further damaging this country. Those same people are waiting to pull the lever again in 2012.
Report Post »ConservativeCharlie
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:54pmLOL! the attacks are getting a little inconsistent. First they ignored the Tea Party, then said the Tea Party was cute and so small it didnt matter, now they are ruining the country. Stay on message BO.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s17Jh2tc04A
whatthecrazy
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:50pmThis mess is so boring i cant remember what the hec i just read ………. dang i dont think i can take another fifteen months of this we much crap,,,This POTUS is harming endless numbers of people to satisfy a few….
Report Post »1773patriot
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:50pmLook, they know that they have to deflect! They MUST continually target the Tea Party in order to divert attention for the dismal failure that is this president and the destruction caused by the democRAT party. Their strategy is to focus on the Tea Party so YOU don’t focus on them! DEMOCRATS ARE THE ENEMY OF PROSPERITY AND LIBERTY!!!!
Report Post »Cat
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:49pm…
Ok …
The tea Party is, gosh darn, dang it, maybe two years old, and manifested from people irate about expanding government, then sent several people into our federal government to become exposed to corruption.
Hey stupid!
The POTUS has said he’s not waiting for congress to make a move!
Report Post »Even a jackass knows what’s going on!
ezeewhiz
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:44pmGreat spin. But the results of the last election should indicate to the White House that the majority of Americans do not want nor like what Obama has done so far. You think?
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:44pmSo, the American people are screaming out, are they?…. Yup, he’s right—they’re screaming at the top of their lungs to get rid of Obama the Marxist and his cadre of lice! We’ll have to fumigate the White House in 2012!
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:43pmwomen homosexuals and minorities will put o back in office…threy hate America.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:03pmSorry, but he has poor, uneducated, and unions as his voting base.
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:05pm@jungle J– I‘m not sure who’s crazier, you or Plouffe–There aren’t enough homosexuals and minorities to accomplish the task—He needs the independents and he’s lost them….
Report Post »Lone Ranger
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:43pmThese people are absolutely delusional. They live in their own Bizarro World
Report Post »SERUM
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:12pmCause they’re the Green Manalishis with two-pronged approach!
Report Post »2012hey
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:42pmThe Tea Party echoes the sentiments of the majority of those 300 million Mr PUFF. What a raging metrosexual that guy is – and totally clueless
Report Post »Heck62
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:41pmThis guy needs a new message.
Report Post »2012hey
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:40pmWow talk about TONE DEAF – Mr Puff – I guess you do not realize that the Tea Party echoes the sentiments of the MAJORITY of those 300 million! The Tea Party IS mainstream patriotic America! Unlike progressives, communists, anarchists and socialists – they are the TINY minority of this country and we will find them all and kick them out
Report Post »apophis
Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:56amWhat is your definition of a socialist?
Report Post »Berbel73
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:37pmThe stench of despiration coming from the white house is overwhelming!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:09pmThe people in this Administration, just don’t get it !!
Report Post »kcinco
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:36pmHow can he keep a straight face when he talks about the Republicans “loosening restrictions on Wall Street bankers and giving more tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans. He said all of the benefits going to the rich would be paid for by seniors and the middle class.” Obama has Wall Street and the unions in his back pocket. Repubs need to quit bickering amongst themselves at debates and talk about the dirty business Obama is involved in. Such as his strong union ties, the Mexican gun fiasco, Solyndra, educate the mindless public about the close relationship with union bosses, with GE and the job-exporting Immelt, his ties to radicals like Rev Wright, unrepentant domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorn. Expose Obama for the hypocrite and panderer that he is and get him voted out. This guy is raising billions of dollars for his campaign and he is relentless in his efforts. Republicans better step it up and play it smart or this election is lost and so is this country as we know it.
Report Post »Cosmos102
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:34pmAnother example of how Obama and the Left are “Tone Deaf” to what Americans are really saying. They want to get their way, their way, and ONLY THEIR WAY. Country be damned.
Report Post »Mr. Vitriol
Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:29pmThis guy needs a new barber.
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