President Obama Caught On Open Mic: GOP Tried To “Sneak” Agenda Into Budget

04/15/2011 12:13 pm 1 comment

Source: Tucker Reals / CBS News

In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.

CBS Radio News White House correspondent Mark Knoller listened in to an audio feed of Mr. Obama’s conversation with donors after other reporters traveling with the president had left the room.

In the candid remarks, Mr. Obama complains of Republican attempts to attach measures to the budget bill which would have effectively killed parts of his hard-won health care reform program.

“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?’” recalled the president of his closed-door negotiations on the bill to fund the federal government until September.

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  • Nchill

    Obama is a hypocrit! Let’s talk about “sneaking” items into bills for a particular agenda. Obama didn’t “veto” one single bill that the Democrats put through under Pelosi’s and Reid’s leaderships — and most were added right before a vote. At least the Republicans put the bill out there for 3 days as they promised for both parties to have time to “read” the bill including the President. Obama didn’t even have a chance to read many of the bills passed by Pelosi’s & Reid’s congress before he signed them into law. Maybe he wasn’t concerned since Pelosi & Reid became his “puppets” to do his bidding.

    While I’m not a supporter of Pelosi or Reid, their time has come. You want to talk about being “stupid”. Obama used Pelosi & Reid to get what he wanted, made them the “evil monsters”, and now is throwing them under the bus!! Pelosi wasn’t banished from the recent 2011 budget negotiations. While Reid had to be there as Majority Leader of the Senate, it was obvious when he came out to make announcements that he had been castrated in the meetings. The negotiations were between Obama and Boehner. So, Reid’s been thrown into the street. The bus just hasn’t rolled over him yet!

    So, how many loyal followers who helped put him in office has Obama “turned coat on”. Enough to tell me he lacks character and integrity. He will throw his country under the bus also if he thinks it is to his best interests — like being the leader of the New World Order. Well, Soros may live long enough to throw Obama under the bus. Think Soros is finding out he can’t trust Obama either.

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