New Scolding Obama Catchphrase: “Pull off the Band Aid. Eat Our Peas.” — POTUS Wants Congress to Approve More Taxes, Less Cuts (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on July 12, 2011
Obama tells Congress, 'Eat your peas!!!'
A new Great-Divider-in-Chief catchphrase to add to his legendary “let me be perfectly clear,” “get some skin in the game,” “if they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” and “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick”.
We now can add this strange, newest scolding admonishment to Congress for not rolling over and agreeing to his huge tax increases. One more Obamaism to toss on the pile: “Pull off the band aid. Eat our peas.”
For cryin’ out loud… eat our peas? What a condescending, patronizing jerk.
From CBS News, Political Hot Sheet, Obama: Time to “eat our peas” and pass debt deal:
Mr. Obama has been seeking a deal that includes $4 trillion in budget savings over a decade, but House Speaker John Boehner said on Saturday that a mid-size package of reforms — closer to $2 trillion in savings, with no tax increases — is the only politically viable solution.
Mr. Obama said today that he appreciated Boehner’s efforts to try to reach a large deal with him, but that the rest of the GOP must now step up to the plate.
“I’ve been hearing from my Republican friends for some time it is a moral imperative to tackle our debt and deficits in a serious way,” Mr. Obama said. “What I’ve said to them is, let’s go.”
The president said today he would not accept a smaller, short-term deal. “We might as well do it now,” he said. “Pull off the band aid. Eat our peas.”
From New York Post, O to GOP: pass the ‘peas’:
WASHINGTON — Taxes are good for you.
President Obama told leaders in Washington yesterday that it’s time to “eat our peas” by making some unappetizing budget decisions.
He scolded Republican leaders for refusing to compromise on his demand for a budget deal that would hike taxes by $1 trillion over 10 years and deliver four times as much in spending cuts.
“We might as well do it now — pull off the Band-Aid, eat our peas,” Obama said at a press conference in the White House briefing room yesterday, hours before a White House meeting with congressional leaders.
Speaker of the House John Boehner has held strong.
Is that a spine we see growing, Mr. Boehner?
Reported by Erick Erickson at RedState, Boehner Embraces Cutting, Capping, and Balancing:
Many of us thought John Boehner would not turn back from the negotiating table. But he did. The media is a real tizzy trying to explain it. As is typical, they’re dumbing it down. Boehner backing away from the negotiating table (1) had nothing to do with tea party opposition, (2) nothing to do with fears of helping Barack Obama’s re-election, and (3) nothing to do with fear of crossing Grover Norquist and his tax pledge.
Boehner left the table because he and the Republicans in Congress actually, factually believe raising taxes would be a bad idea. President Obama says the taxes he wants to raise are off a ways in 2013 or 2014. But Republicans understand that businesses and employers knowing their profits will fall in a few years will start making cuts today to preserve their net profits tomorrow. It’d be bad for the economy.
What’s more, John Boehner did offer up a plan — it sounds like he is embracing the policy pledge inspired by Senator DeMint, i.e. “Cut, Cap, and Balance.”
Cut-to-the-chase commentary from radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh:
Rush Limbaugh – It’s Time to Shut Up Barack and Eat Your Peas
Excellent observation from Rep. Michele Bachmann — “I lived through this with President Carter, in which you start asking, ‘Does this guy have any idea what he’s doing?’”
From Fox News, Lawmakers Face Rising Pressure From the Base Not to Bend on Deficit:
Liberals and conservatives, on and off Capitol Hill, have sprung into action to urge lawmakers not to cede ground in the ongoing deficit talks, complicating the latest marathon push to strike a deal and raise the debt ceiling.
President Obama and Vice President Biden plan to meet Tuesday afternoon with lawmakers from both parties, following up on back-to-back meetings since Sunday. The talks so far have failed to yield a compromise ahead of what the administration claims is an Aug. 2 deadline to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.
Their respective bases aren’t making things any easier.
After Obama privately offered to raise the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67, liberal Democrats and advocacy groups cried foul.
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., told Fox News such cuts would be a political and fiscal “mistake.”
One liberal group, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, immediately blasted out an email to supporters urging them to sign a petition to the Obama campaign threatening to withhold support in 2012 if he cuts Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
Era of Hopenchange translation: The term “revenue increases” means “increase the taxes from Americans to give the government more money to spend willy-nilly.”
From Big Government, What Recession? Obama, Democrats Push for Tax Hikes:
With the clock ticking toward an Aug. 2 deadline, congressional leaders return to the White House Monday for another round of budget bargaining with President Barack Obama, who has warned top lawmakers he will call daily meetings until they break their partisan stalemate.
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A Republican congressional aide said the White House is proposing between $1.4 and $1.7 trillion in tax increases, a total unlikely to garner any support from GOP lawmakers.
Last week, Boehner and Obama had private talks that led Democrats to believe the House speaker was willing to entertain revenue increases as part of a full overhaul of the tax code later this year in exchange for Democrats agreeing to stiff curbs on the growth of Medicare and lower increases in Social Security cost-of-living adjustments. But Boehner recoiled and abandoned the idea Saturday night in a move that rattled the talks.
During the 1930s, curly-headed moppet Shirley Temple sang “you gotta eat your spinach, baby.” Now we have Barack telling us, like an angry, finger-wagging mother, to “eat our peas.”
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A blast from the cinematic past, with little Shirley, Jack Haley, and Alice Faye from the 1936 film Poor Little Rich Girl. Shirley sings the “Spinach Song,” starting at the 3:03 mark.
Shirley Temple, “No Spinach”
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I am so extremely sick of this man. I thought Bush was a terrible president but now he’s looking brilliant compared to Obama. Everyday it is some new attack on America and taxpayers. Eveyrday it some new spending or ripping at the constitution. The elction will boot his sory marxist butt out of the White House and it won’t come soon enough for me.
What a disaster Obama has been. Thank you America for this idiot. Now I gotta go eat some peas.