White House Responds To Tea Baggers - OUCH!

[kpete]

White House Responds To Tea Baggers - OUCH!
by KingOneEye

Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 10:05:35 AM PDT

The astroturf-roots charades that Fox News has been reporting as "Tea Parties" are almost here. Today is the big day and Fox has been ramping up their promotions. It has been well documented that these shams were conceived and executed by major players in the Republican Party and affiliated partisan advocacy groups like FreedomWorks.

Now the President has issued what may be the perfect response.

The White House is reacting to the day of revolting right-wingers in a particularly appropriate way:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Briefing-by-White-House-Press-Secretary-Robert-Gibbs-4-14-09/

QUESTION: Thanks, Robert. Tomorrow is tax day and a number of conservative groups are organizing these so called "tea parties" across the country; there are going to be grassroots uprising revolts against the administration's policies so far. Is the President aware that these are going on and do you have any reaction to this?

ROBERT GIBBS: I don't know if the President is aware of the events. I think the President will use tomorrow as a day to have an event here at the White House to signal the important steps in the economic recovery and reinvestment plan that cut taxes for 95 percent of working families in America, just as the President proposed doing; cuts in taxes and tax credits for the creation of clean energy jobs.

We'll use tomorrow to highlight individual and instances in families that have seen their taxes cut and I think America can be -- Americans will see more money in their pockets as a direct result of the Making Work Pay tax cut that the President both campaigned on and passed through Congress.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/4/15/720358/-White-House-Responds-To-Tea-BaggersOUCH!

[underpants]

1. A couple of hours ago Obama was on TV saying "I'm on it" and oh yeah, I cut your taxes

and everyone checked to see if their asses were hanging out

[Barack_America]

2. Oh they know. Obama went on live at noon.

Which is when these "parties" were supposed to start.

He drowned them out of the midday news.

Brilliant move.

[pinto]

3. Good deal.

[uppityperson]

4. I love them protesting taxes as they have been cut and are being cut more.

Too funny. That is a good quote. I wonder if the tea baggers will take credit with putting soooooooooooooo much pressure on him that he cut taxes, omg, on teh SAME DAY!!!!1111

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. headline at Yahoo about an hour ago

was about Obama meeting with ordinary citizens, pledging to simplify the tax code, which, to paraphrase, he said was overly complicated to the average person but not for those who wished to game the system.

I was glad to see Yahoo giving this some space.