Steve Scalise says House Republicans didn't disrespect Obama's position. Let's go to the tape.

[DonViejo]

By JM Rieger
July 16 at 1:40 PM

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) made quite quite an assertion Tuesday about how Republicans treated President Barack Obama while he was in office.

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While it is true that House Republicans often used the word “president” when referring to Obama, some conservative media personalities, such as Sean Hannity, pointedly did not. Others called him president but questioned his patriotism, for instance in 2015, when Rudolph W. Giuliani said he did not “believe” Obama “loves America."

But when Obama invited congressional Republicans to the White House, they often ignored him.

The New York Times in 2011 reported:

Congressional Republicans have turned down requests for White House meetings, refused to return the president’s call and walked out of budget talks. [And] Speaker John A. Boehner became what historians say was the first ever to tell a sitting president that no, he could not deliver an address to a joint session of Congress on the date of his choice.


Here are some other times Republican “respect” for Obama was on display.

In 2009, Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) yelled “You lie” at Obama during an address to Congress.

In 2011, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) apologized to Obama after calling him a “tar baby.”

In 2012, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said it was time to send Obama “home to Kenya.”

Amid negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program in 2015, Republican leaders broke normal procedure and invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

In 2016, Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) prayed that Obama’s “days be few, and let another have his office.”

A House Republican staffer resigned in 2014 after she told Sasha and Malia Obama to show “a little class.”

And in 2011, Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) said first lady Michelle Obama, “lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself.” (Sensenbrenner apologized the next day).

Over a dozen congressional Republicans did not dismiss the birther conspiracy in 2009. In conservative media, there was endless coverage of Obama’s religion, vacations, golf trips and alleged communist and socialist ties throughout his presidency, examples of which you can watch in the video I made for HuffPost in 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/16/steve-scalise-says-house-republicans-never-disrespected-obamas-position-lets-go-tape/

[Dirty Socialist]

1. K&R

Rubepublicans seem to have short memories

[maxsolomon]

6. They know the voters have short memories

So they pretend the same.

[Freethinker65]

2. Denying the President a vote on his Constitutionally given power to nominate a SC justice

Is complete disrespect for the Office of the President.

Elections have consequences, unless you are a Democratically elected President.

[Maraya1969]

4. I think our next Dem president should nominate another Supreme Court Judge to replace

Judge Garland. And the court will have one more justice. Period.

[GoCubsGo]

3. It's your daily chapter of "Republican Revisionist History."

No doubt the United States of Amnesia will eat up every word of it.

[Hulk]

5. scalise is just one more delusional, liar for the gop propaganda machine.

NOTHING that comes out of their mouths is based in any fact. Every word they speak is for the pure purpose of propaganda and persuading the gullible idiots that tune in to fox and like.

Liar...but no different than the rest of this party of cowards and con artist shills.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

8. K&R. Amazing how so many sing off the exact same page.

I once read during W's days that the daily mantra for his minions was sent out by email from Heritage Foundation and perhaps other right-wing think tanks. Faux News and some in talk radio were privy to those as well.

I often wonder if the same isn't true today. Or, maybe it's simply determined by whatever garbage tRump sends out each morning while sitting on his golden shitter.

KY.........

[UpInArms]

7. Rep. Steve King (R - idiot from Iowa)

https://m.

Grrrrrr

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Rep. Steve King (Ridiot - Iowa)

KY..........

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. Why go to a tape? They LIE every time they open their mouths. nt

[lame54]

11. "You lied!"...

Made that fool $millions

[Mc Mike]

12. There was this one asshole repug who kept demanding Obama's birth certificate.

He used the fame he got from those demands to run for prez, and the repugs loved it so much they voted for him.