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John Boehner’s second statement in as many days:

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C116F9D3-6425-4853-973E-BEF4A228A444

Boehner: Obama ‘demagogues’ Walker
By: Jake Sherman
February 18, 2011 02:27 PM EST

Speaker John Boehner Friday accused President Barack Obama and his political apparatus for “inciting” protests in Wisconsin’s captal, saying that the president is trying to “demagogue reform-minded governors.”

Boehner was referencing Obama’s deployment of his political operation, Organizing for America, to Wisconsin, where public-sector workers are protesting Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to strip them of collective bargaining rights.

Boehner said that OFA is “colluding with special-interest allies across the country to demagogue reform-minded governors who are making the tough choices that the President is avoiding.”

“This is not the way to begin an ‘adult conversation’ about solutions to the big challenges facing our country,” Boehner said in a statement. “Rather inciting protests against those who speak honestly about the challenges we face, the president and his advisers should lead.”

It’s the second statement the speaker made in response to the uproar in Wisconsin. This time he took it a step further, and likened the protests in Wisconsin to the Greece debt uprising, but noted that it is “fueled by President Obama’s own political machine.”

“Rather than trying to ‘win the future,’ the president’s political allies are trying, desperately, to cling to a failed past by fighting reforms our nation needs to liberate our economy from the shackles of debt and create a better future for our children and grandchildren,” Boehner said. “The President should make it clear to his friends that the people of Wisconsin, and states across America, can handle their own affairs without Washington special-interest money and meddling.”