Obama Dominates Republicans, "With All Due Respect" Utterly

[kpete]

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HENSARLING: But this is what I don't understand, Mr. President. After that discussion, your administration proposed a budget that would triple the national debt over the next 10 years. Surely you don't believe 10 years from now we will still be mired in this recession. It proposed new entitlement spending and moved the -- the cost of government to almost 24.5 percent of the economy.

Now, very soon, Mr. President, you're due to submit a new budget and my question...

OBAMA: Jim (sic), I know there's a question in there somewhere, because you're making a whole bunch of assertions, half of which I disagree with.

(LAUGHTER)

And I'm having to sit here listening to them. At some point, I know you're going to let me answer.

HENSARLING: That's...

OBAMA: All right.

HENSARLING: That's the question.

You are soon to submit a new budget, Mr. President. Will that new budget, like your old budget, triple the national debt and continue to take us down the path of increasing the cost of government to almost 25 percent of our economy? That's the question, Mr. President.

OBAMA: All right. Jim (sic), with all due respect, I've just got to take this last question as an example of how it's very hard to have the kind of bipartisan work that we're going to do, because the whole question was structured as a talking point for running -- running a campaign.

TRANSCRIPT:
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/1/29/15311/8475
VIDEO:
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2010/01/29/HP/R/28993/President+Speaks+at+GOP+Retreat.aspx

[ddeclue]

1. All DUE respect... not All DO(sic) respect..

:eyes:

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Due tell.

[yodermon]

5. duezy!

[TexasObserver]

3. The president did a nice job and won that encounter.

He came off knowledgeable, cooperative, and firm.

[Ardent15]

4. Agreed. The President is very mature and diplomatic, nt

[Smashcut]

6. Agree. Other guy looked like a whiny child

[Marr]

7. From what I watched, the whole event seemed to go that same way.

Their "questions" were about 90% talking points and false accusations, topped off with a "do you still beat your wife"?

I've never bought the whole "bipartisan" thing. I think it's little more than cover for an ostensibly populist party to push corporate legislation. However, this engagement made even the sham of bipartisanship look very old and tired.

[spanone]

8. i watched him. it was great. he was in the lion's den and cool as they come.

marsha blackburn treated him with little respect....but he was cool and intelligent and himself..


the applause was for the questions....not his answers...i hope everyone in the country was watching.