Obama Steps Up Debt Smack Talk
"I said, 'you want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?'"
-- President Obama, as quoted by CBS News, talking to donors in Chicago
President Obama is warming to the more combative, more partisan tone he and his team have adopted in dealing with House Republicans over fiscal issues, setting up a make-or-break battle over federal borrowing.
Flexing his political pectorals for donors on a multi-million-dollar fundraising blitz in Chicago, the president engaged in some braggadocio about how he backed down House Speaker John Boehner’s demands for additional curbs on the implementation of Obama’s national health care law.
Obama was also overheard bashing Republican budget maven Rep. Paul Ryan as
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