Obama Does Play Professor To Boehner's Petulant School Kid (VIDEO)

[jefferson_dem]

Obama Does Play Professor To Boehner's Petulant School Kid

Earlier today, Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) criticized President Obama for acting, during the day's health care summit, like he was a professor in front of a classroom of petulant Republican schoolchildren.

The analogy seemed a bit harsh -- until Minority Leader John Boehner got the microphone roughly an hour later to play the part of unruly school kid to a tee.

During a segment of the meeting devoted to cost control and federal entitlements, Boehner instead trotted out just about every single GOP scare story about the bill - insisting it was a government takeover, calling it a massive bureaucratic mess, and even remarking about the number of pages in the legislation.

Coming after a fairly substantive policy debate, and having literally nothing to do with the point of the conversation, the diatribe evidently struck the president as a cheap shot and distraction. And he responded by essentially putting Boehner on time out, telling him he'd get to his concerns after class.

John, you know, the challenge I have here, and it happens periodically, is every so often we have a pretty good conversation trying to get on some specifics, and then we go back to, you know, the standard talking points that the Democrats and Republicans have had for the last year. And that doesn't drive us to an agreement on issues.

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[annabanana]

1. Yup. . And boner went and pouted for awhile. . . n/t

[maddezmom]

2. probably a cig break

:)

[Turbineguy]

3. He got a little

flaccid there.

[cutlassmama]

4. you'd think bonehead would learn by now, but it looks like he's a slow

learner.