Rep. Allen West (R-FL) tells the media to stop blaming the Republicans in Congress for the lack of economic progress in the United States, and start looking at the real problem: Barack Obama.
(from CNS News) “It’s about time that I asked this from the media: Stop being afraid of this president. Stand up to him and call him out on the shirking of his duties and responsibilities. The House Republicans are passing pieces of legislation, after pieces of legislation about jobs.”
“And here we got a president that’s gone off to Australia, playing golf in Hawaii, and you guys allow him to make this decision to shut down this Keystone XL project,” said West. “The media needs to call out this president and stop coming over here to the House Republicans and telling us what we’re not doing. We’re the ones taking action. The guy sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is destroying this country.”
At the press conference, other House Republicans criticized the president’s decision on the pipeline, saying it was politically motivated to push it past the 2012 election. Two groups of Obama’s political base, unions and environmentalists, are divided over the issue.
Many of the jobs the pipeline would create would go to union workers, including the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, which is headed by Obama-supporter James P. Hoffa.
At the press conference led by Rep. Tim Griffin, (R-Ark.), the lawmakers said delaying the pipeline would cost 20,000 jobs, and warned against losing Canadian crude oil production to China.
Here’s the video of his remarks:
