Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Obama slams Republican budget plan

President Obama delivered a stern and stinging rebuke of the Republican budget plan Tuesday, charging that his GOP rivals seek to impose a “radical vision” on the nation by creating a form of “social Darwinism” that pits the poor against the wealthy.

Setting the stage for a debate that probably will define the fall election, Obama cast the Republican Party as having strayed from its roots as the party of Abraham Lincoln, forgoing social responsibility as it moved farther to the right of the political spectrum.

Obama assailed the budget plan approved by the Republican-led House last week, which would slash $5.3 trillion over the next decade through deep cuts in entitlements and agency spending, as “so far to the right, it makes the Contract with America look like the New Deal.”

The president, in a 38-minute address to the American Society of News Editors in Washington, also called the GOP budget proposal “a Trojan Horse.”

“Disguised as deficit reduction plan, it’s really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It’s nothing but thinly veiled social Darwinism,” Obama said. “It’s a prescription for decline.”
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2 comments:

Ben said...

Obama is always "deliver[ing] a stern and stinging rebuke" to anything that he doesn't agree with. He's a sycophantic, narcissistic autocrat who also apparently thinks that he can tell judges how to judge and congress how to make laws. He sees himself as an Emperor and he needs to be brought down off of his thrown.

Vote out the Tyrant!

The Archer of the Forest said...

I wouldn't exactly call President Obama's proposed Federal budget a paragon of civic virtue either.