Dec 22, 2011 10:52am

Stop Shopping and Start Talking, GOP Tells Obama

President Obama can’t even go to Best Buy these days without getting shellacked by House Republicans.

Shortly after calling House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday about the payroll tax cut extension that the House voted down, Obama slipped out of the White House to make a short shopping trip to Alexandria, Va., where he stopped in at Best Buy and PetSmart to buy video games  for his daughters and a chew toy for dog Bo.

For Republicans, apparently that was too much time away from business.

At a multi-member news conference today, the House GOP leaders demanded that Obama work with them on extending the tax cut in dispute,  with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., noting  that he “saw the president out yesterday doing his Christmas shopping” with Bo.

“He can bring his dog up here,” Cantor said. “We are pet friendly.”

 

User Comments

Civics 101: When there’s a difference between the same bill a “conference: occurs to resolve/compromise the differences. But Reid sent the home for 1 month WITHOUT any attempt to do this? Why has the senate failed to produce a budget for almost 3 years? Call you senator and Harry Reid’s office in Nevada and demand they finish the job. Would you still have a job if you didn’t do what you were paid to do?

Posted by: deanbob | December 22, 2011, 11:02 am 11:02 am

What a pathetic group the Republicans are!!

Posted by: demNme5 | December 22, 2011, 11:16 am 11:16 am

Tell me witch party is being fiscally responsible. Please use the social security trust fund
in your answer because that is were the money comes from. Do not forget thanking them all when the retirement age is raised again. And if your retirement check gets
decreased from what has been promised in those statements that SSI sends out,
remember the fun money you have received in 2011 and most likely in 2012.
Tell me how this is not voter bribery also. With your own money to booth. Gotta love
them politicians, just like something stuck to your shoe.

Posted by: deadwrestler | December 22, 2011, 11:26 am 11:26 am

Typical response from Boehner. The President is not the Speaker of the House of Representatives John, you are. If you can’t control your own members it’s not the Presidents fault. He’s shopping ten minutes away from the White House, send him the tax reduction bill and he’ll sign it.

What a pathetic man, when it counts, at least Nancy Pelosi can deliver the democrats. If you’d ask her nicely John she might tell you how to do it.

Posted by: tmferretti | December 22, 2011, 11:34 am 11:34 am

What a pathetic man, when it counts, at least Nancy Pelosi can deliver the democrats. If you’d ask her nicely John she might tell you how to do it.
Posted by: tmferretti | December 22, 2011, 11:34 am 11:34 am

So, you are proud of the fact that Pelosi can manipulate the Democrats to support party before the good of the country? Nice.

Posted by: wheresmymoney | December 22, 2011, 11:38 am 11:38 am

How old are these people? Anymore they always sound so dang immature with what they choose to throw out there for a fight. Deanbob – 1998, 2004, 2006.. Three years republicans had a majority in both the house and the senate and “they failed to pass a budget.” You got played on that rhetoric.

Posted by: lexingtonlady | December 22, 2011, 11:50 am 11:50 am

NRO reports: Today, Speaker Boehner called President Obama to discuss the Speaker’s desire to provide a full year of tax relief for American families before December 31st. With Senator Reid having declined to call his Members back to Washington this week to join the House in negotiating a full-year extension of the payroll tax cut, the Speaker proposed that the President send members of his economic policy team up to Congress to find a way to accommodate the President’s full-year request. The Speaker reiterated that if their shared goal is a one-year bill, there is no reason an agreement cannot be reached before year’s end. The President declined the Speaker’s offer. ”

Obama won’t do anything to get a full year passed. He WANTS the fighting to continue.

Posted by: wheresmymoney | December 22, 2011, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm

Obama stopped working, months ago.

Posted by: Rick McDaniel | December 22, 2011, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm

If the House GOP won’t agree to a two-month deal, how we can believe they’d ever agree to a full-year deal in the next 10 days?

This is the story in a nut shell, all Boehner is doing is trying to stall this bill anyway he can. The tea party republicans don’t want this extension of the tax reduction. It will keep the economy growing and lead to more jobs. They can’t have that, it might help to get President Obama re-elected.

The President should go to Hawaii and enjoy his vacation; the House republicans aren’t going to get off their collective butts for anyone except Grover Norquist.

Posted by: tmferretti | December 22, 2011, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Never known the GOP so eager to talk. They sure weren’t month or even weeks ago…oh yeah because of Boehner’s Blunder their you know what’s are in a sling.

Posted by: MTATL67 | December 22, 2011, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

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