Human Events

Price Unimpressed with Obama’s Jobs Meeting
by Connie Hair

12/10/2009

“…Rep. Tom Price, M.D. (R-Ga.), chairman of the Republican Study Committee (RSC), was unimpressed when the president remarked yesterday that he was “committed to working with anybody who is willing to do the job to make sure that we can rebuild our economy.” Since January, the RSC has made nearly weekly requests to meet with the president to offer solutions to the nation’s problems. Some in the committee, including Price, have also accepted the president’s offer to go over the health care bill “line by line” to no avail.

“Excuse me if I don’t take the president very seriously about his latest entreaty to Republicans,” Price said. “If the president is really curious why he hasn’t received significant Republican support, he may take note of the fact that only Democrats have been in the room when bills are drafted and only liberal big-government ideas make their way onto the floor.”

“It’s becoming increasingly clear that the president has no clue how jobs are created, and Republicans would be more than willing to illustrate to the president the principles that have created our nation’s storied success,” Price added. “And if the president really wants to create a bipartisan solution, he doesn’t need a public relations stunt or another speech. He simply has to roll up his sleeves and get to work with us on writing a bill that puts folks back to work; we’re ready any time, any place. Until then, the president really should drop the contrived sincerity. The American people deserve a little better than pot shot politics and blame gaming that have defined the White House’s efforts at bipartisanship.”

Ouch — that left a mark.

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