White House: Republicans Are 'Talking More Calvin Coolidge Than George Bush'
Several weeks ago, in an interview with the Huffington Post, a senior Obama adviser tried out a new campaign-themed line in the hope of imparting the gravity of the situation to Democratic voters. Should Republicans take back Congress, he said, their policy agendas could be worse then those offered by George W. Bush.
On Friday, the White House hit the theme again. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking at the daily briefing, accused some in the GOP of wanting to not just privatize Social Security but to eliminate the program altogether. And in a briefing with a small number of reporters, a senior administration official made an even more dramatic charge, saying that modern Republicanism resembles the Coolidge administration more than Bush.
"They are talking more Calvin Coolidge than George [W] Bush," the official said. "In a sense they are talking about the same policies on steroids. They don't just want to privatize Social Security, they want to eliminate Social Security. They don't want to just freeze regulations, as Mr. Boehner has suggested on behalf of his corporate patrons, they want to eliminate the EPA. They want to eliminate oversight and laws to protect our air and water....
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On Friday, the White House hit the theme again. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, speaking at the daily briefing, accused some in the GOP of wanting to not just privatize Social Security but to eliminate the program altogether. And in a briefing with a small number of reporters, a senior administration official made an even more dramatic charge, saying that modern Republicanism resembles the Coolidge administration more than Bush.
"They are talking more Calvin Coolidge than George [W] Bush," the official said. "In a sense they are talking about the same policies on steroids. They don't just want to privatize Social Security, they want to eliminate Social Security. They don't want to just freeze regulations, as Mr. Boehner has suggested on behalf of his corporate patrons, they want to eliminate the EPA. They want to eliminate oversight and laws to protect our air and water....