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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