Wednesday, December 18, 2013

GOP's Scalise: White House Should Fire Podesta for 'Jonestown' Remarks




GOP's Scalise: White House Should Fire Podesta for 'Jonestown' Remarks
by Matthew Boyle 18 Dec 2013, 1:31 PM PDT
House Republican Study Committee Chairman Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) has called on President Barack Obama to fire John Podesta as his senior adviser in the wake of startling revelations about comments he has made.

In an interview with Politico for a Politico Magazine profile, Podesta compared the Republican Party to the Jonestown cult that Jim Jones led in the 1970s, of which 900 members committed mass suicide via cyanide poisoning in 1978.

“They [the Obama administration] need to focus on executive action given that they are facing a second term against a cult worthy of Jonestown in charge of one of the houses of Congress,” Podesta said of what the administration must do in dealing with the Republican controlled House.

Scalise thinks such comments should be a fireable offense. He called on Obama to take action and terminate Podesta’s employment right away.

“It's disgraceful and telling that President Obama's new Counselor is not only comparing the Republican Party to a cult that murdered those who disagreed with them, but is also using that comparison as an argument in support of shredding the Constitution and governing like a third-world dictator,” Scalise said in a statement provided to Breitbart News. “The American people will not stand by and allow the Obama White House to destroy the checks-and-balances defined in the Constitution that are critical to a working democracy, and neither will Congress!"

"The American people elected a divided government in Washington, and the Obama Administration would do well to respect that fact instead of undermining the will of the American people at every turn," he continued. "President Obama ran to change the tone in Washington, and it’s time for him to live up to that promise by relieving Mr. Podesta of his official duties immediately.”

Scalise is not the only Republican upset about Podesta’s rhetoric. Rory Cooper, the spokesman for House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), said in a statement provided to Breitbart News that such comments make it difficult for House Republicans to work with the administration.

“This type of appalling and inflammatory rhetoric is a very troubling sign of how this White House plans to govern over the next three years,” Cooper said.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a freshman conservative member, said in a statement provided to Breitbart News that the American people should not accept Podesta’s or the White House’s arguments for executive orders and exceeding new authority on the administration’s behalf.

"Faced with an imploding health care law built on a façade of deception, ruling class leftists like John Podesta resort to vitriolic attacks against, and demonization of, their political opponents,” DeSantis said. “This seems like an entirely baseless excuse for the President to act unilaterally in ways that exceed his constitutional authority.”

John Podesta
John D. Podesta is counselor for the Barack Obama administration, the chair & counselor for the Center for American Progress, and was Tom Daschle’s counselor.

Note: Tom Daschle’s counselor was John D. Podesta, the nominee for health and human services secretary for the Barack Obama administration, is a director at the Center for American Progress, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
George Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Rahm I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, the Chicago (IL) mayor, was the White House chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Ezekiel Emanuel is Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.
John D. Podesta is the chair & counselor for the Center for American Progress, counselor for the Barack Obama administration, and was Tom Daschle’s counselor.
Melody C. Barnes was the EVP for the Center for American Progress, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama administration, and is Barack Obama’s golf partner.
 




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