[leijggigf]

LOL He thought he was in just another private meeting with friendlies here, didn't know what he was saying was being sent back to D.C. and recorded. Here we see the real Obama revealed.

Our Dear Leader has just given the GOP a gift they never could have dreamed of for Campaign 2012.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_1...85-503544.html

Obama: GOP tried to "sneak" agenda into budget

In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.

CBS Radio News White House correspondent Mark Knoller listened in to an audio feed of Mr. Obama's conversation with donors after other reporters traveling with the president had left the room.

In the candid remarks, Mr. Obama complains of Republican attempts to attach measures to the budget bill which would have effectively killed parts of his hard-won health care reform program.

"I said, 'You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We'll have that debate. You're not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we're stupid?'" recalled the president of his closed-door negotiations on the bill to fund the federal government until September.

Mr. Obama said he told House Speaker John Boehner and members of his staff that he'd spent a year and a half getting the sweeping health care legislation passed -- paying "significant political costs" along the way -- and wouldn't let them undo it in a six-month spending bill.

The bill, approved by Congress on Thursday, trims about $38 billion from the government's spending authority, though confusion and consternation over the size of the bill's actual spending cuts increased Thursday in the wake of a report showing the legislation would only bring a reduction of $352 million in non-war government outlays for the rest of this fiscal year since most of the cuts come from authorized funds not intended to be spent right away.

Speaking into a microphone which he may not have realized was still relaying his remarks to the White House press room -- where Knoller had been listening to earlier remarks that were open to the press -- Mr. Obama bemoaned GOP leaders' attempts to attach a measure to the budget bill which would have cut funding for Planned Parenthood.

"Put it in a separate bill," the president said he told Boehner and his staff. "We'll call it up. And if you think you can overturn my veto, try it. But don't try to sneak this through."

[ambiddetcat]

This is great stuff. I hope we hear a lot more of this from Obama over the next five years.

[Mynameishappy]

Rant? I'm betting that "rant" gets him a bump in the polls.

[Janny2006]

Is there anything being said here that hasn't been conveyed from the White House already? I don't see the controversy, just the clarity and grounded logic that helped win the last election.

[topbonusescod]

Like you said, Richard, Waaaahh, Whaaaahh, he said something mean to us!

[ordercigsnick]

To paraphrase the VP: This is not a big ****ing deal. Like many others, I'm frankly glad to hear the President speak so strongly, and I welcome the debate on budget cuts. When the American people hear the truth about what the Tea Partiers want to cut, they'll be voted out next year and there may be a civil discussion about the real issues.