Obama Scolds, Blames 'Climate Change Deniers'

During a private fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, President Obama slipped into full campaign mode in order to blame Congress for not passing his sweeping energy policy: It's those darn climate-change truthers believers.

"There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people's radar screens," Obama told about 200 guests at the residence of internet billionaire Marc Benioff, according to an official transcript obtained by Talking Points Memo. "But I don't think there's any doubt that unless we are able to move forward in a serious way on clean energy that we're putting our children and our grandchildren at risk. So that's not yet done."

Even TPM, a liberal website, noticed the frankness.

"But the remark was nonetheless unusual for a President who often avoids the frank language his sympathetic advocates use," the site said.

Both TPM and the Huffington Post, however, said the comments were also meant as a shot at the GOP since, "those climate change deniers are all Republicans."

But that doesn't seem to jibe with a recnt Think Progress article, which notes that 19 Democrats recently "voted to to reverse the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding that greenhouse gas pollution threatens the health and welfare of Americans with a wide range of impacts, including more frequent and severe droughts and wildfires."