Obama Threatens Mayors: "I will call you out"

swamppolitics ^ | 2/20/09 | James

[pabianice]

Even as President Barack Obama told the nation's mayors they now have a friend in the White House, he warned that he would use the "full power" of the presidency to expose and crack down on them if they misuse the economic stimulus dollars meant to boost the economy out of its doldrums.

Obama cautioned the mayors todqy that the American people had placed their trust in their political leaders to spend the $787 billion wisely and that such trust would be squandered if mayors and other officials wound up wasting the money on dubious projects.

"If a federal agency proposes a project that will waste that money I will not hesitate to call them out on it and put a stop to it," Obama told mayors who gathered in the White House. "And I want everybody here to be on notice that if a local government does the same. I will call them out on it and use the full power of my office and our administration to stop it."

[pabianice]

[pabianice]

A friend who is a psychologist tells me he believes Obama is clinically insane. Oh, joy.

[BenLurkin]

Was “Schoolbus” there?

[ArrogantBustard]

Even so much as one penny going to ACORN or one of its affiliates would be a hideous waste ... We can trust Hussein to prevent such waste, right?

Right????

[autumnraine]

Translation: If you use the stimulus money in a way I don’t approve, I will call you out.

How ridiculous. I hope he continues to piss off every politician out there.

[TheOgre]

I believe he has narcissitic personality disorder. Look at his childhood. Talk about screwed up.

[autumnraine]

I don’t think your friend is wrong.

[Domandred]

"We get called out every day," said Mayor Manny Diaz of Miami, a Democrat and president of the U.S Conference of Mayors "We have plenty of constituents who will be doing that before the president does."

Yep this guy knows what's up. He answers to his constituents, not President ZerObama.

[tgusa]

Arrogant putz.

[Jim Robinson]

"Obama cautioned the mayors todqy that the American people had placed their trust in their political leaders to spend the $787 billion wisely and that such trust would be squandered if mayors and other officials wound up wasting the money on dubious projects."

Obama is an idiot. The whole damen thing is a waste of money. Dubious projects? ROFLOL!!

[BARLF]

Obama cautioned the mayors todqy that the American people had placed their trust in their political leaders to spend the $787 billion wisely

I'm one of the "American people" and I have never trusted any politician to spend my money wisely.

[rellimpank]

-—too bad Dubya didn’t do that to the mayor of New Orleans—

[kittymyrib]

Well, BO, you can start by investigating Daley, the crime boss of your old hometown. Fox carried an item last week that Daley said it was no one’s business what the projects or the amounts of bailout money Chicago was requesting, because critics would only “pick it apart.” Let’s see if BO is a coward as well as an incompetent.

[edpc]

Better yet, we know he won’t criticize those who spend it his way......which we know will be frivolous. Great campaing ammo for the genuinely conservative cadidates in ‘10.

[RC2]

The Mayors and Governors need to stand up and say “Who the hell do you think you are? We got rid of kings over 200 years ago.”

[fullchroma]

I agree and I believe this country is in serious peril. Any details from your psychologist friend to share?

[EyeGuy]

“The whole damen thing is a waste of money. Dubious projects? ROFLOL!!”

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Indeed.

The “wisest way to spend the 787 billion” would be to put it right back where it belongs:

In the hands of tax-paying American citizens and businesses.

All of it.

[reagan_fanatic]

Mussolini would be busting his buttons with pride if he could see this.

[SpaceBar]

To all American city mayors reading this. Refuse federal bailouts and greatly lower your taxes on business and individuals. Watch your city thrive whilst you give the finger to our new fascist overlord Obama.