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Hatch: Obama press conference was a ‘temper tantrum’
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Wednesday criticized President Obama and the Senate's Democratic leadership for failing to propose a plan that would solve the nation’s fiscal crisis.
“I wish I could report that Washington is serious about addressing this spending problem, but in the last week we seem to have hit a new low,” Hatch said.
“President Obama’s contribution last week was a press conference slash temper tantrum where he offered up policy proposals that might appeal to his left-wing base but will do nothing to avoid the bankruptcy."
In that press conference at the White House last week, President Obama shifted much of the blame for lack of progress in budget and debt-ceiling negotiations to Congress and exhorted the House and Senate to get back to work.
Hatch went on to roast the Democratic leadership in the Senate for a bill currently being considered that would express a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” resolution that Americans earning more than $1 million a year ought to pay higher taxes.
“That's how they kept themselves in power and claiming that they're helping the poor,” he accused.
Hatch went on to contrast his own views of personal property and economic theory against the views he perceives his liberal colleagues hold.
“Liberals think that all of the money that you earn belongs to the government — that you have no independent right to the fruit of your own labors because only by big government are you ever able to make something of yourself,” Hatch said.
“But the American people are the ones that earn their money through their ideas, their risk and their labor,” said Hatch, describing his own views. “Only by your consent is the government permitted to take some of it in taxation to pay for certain public goods.”
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