Rep Bartlett slam dunk…in meeting with the President
Said Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.: “Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective. I remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932. So I remember the Great Depression very well. I don’t remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the Depression. Government programs didn’t work then, I don’t know why we think they would work now. Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids. Now we’re working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids. Mr. President, I think it’s more than a little bit selfish to try to solve our economic problems which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born.” *
This prompted applause.
The only reason I am pursuing this plan is because if we don’t get the economy moving again soon, the situation future generations will inherit will be worse, the president said.
“Thank you for your outreach and the spirit in which you came here,” said Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., the House GOP Conference Chair. “You mentioned that this bill had been negotiated in the House. Let me make it clear that there has been no negotiating in the House.”
Democrats have shut them out of the process, he said, to applause.
Said Pence, “we promise that we will pray for you every day and the door of this conference will be open to you.”
The most applause the president got came when he said he would extend Q&A for five minutes and make the Senators wait.