GOP Leader, "The President should be focused on solving the problems of the American people ... instead of my choice of metaphors."
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WASHINGTON, June 30 /Standard Newswire/ -- House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement on the President's remarks today in Racine, WI:
- "The President should be focused on solving the problems of the American people -- stopping the leaking oil and cleaning up the Gulf, scrapping his job-killing agenda, repealing and replacing ObamaCare -- instead of my choice of metaphors.
"Attacking Republicans is a lot easier than explaining to the citizens of Racine, who face 14 percent unemployment, why one in every 10 Americans in our workforce is unemployed nearly 18 months after the president's trillion-dollar 'stimulus' spending bill was enacted.
"I wasn't minimizing the crisis America faced - I was pointing out that Washington Democrats have produced a bill that will actually kill more jobs and make the situation worse. It does nothing to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government mortgage companies that caused the housing and financial crisis by giving risky loans to people who couldn't possibly pay them back. Republicans have a better solution that ends the bailouts, ends 'too big to fail,' and reforms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
"The American people want leadership from the White House, not more childish partisanship."