He’s back in campaign mode and President Obama has his eyes set on the opponent – the Republican Party.
Preparing his Democrats to hopefully maintain control of the Senate in November, President Obama hit the campaign trail again today and continued his calling out of the do nothing Republicans, actually calling them do nothing Republicans.
“They don’t do anything,” Obama told supporters gathered at a band shell near a Minneapolis lake. “Except block me, and call me names.”
The president ran down a list of items on which he and congressional Republicans are at odds, including a new immigration bill, a proposed increase in the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance, and fair pay for women.
Obama, who is trying to help Democrats retain control of the Senate after the November elections, also mocked House Republicans for planning to sue him over his executive actions.
His various orders — including minimum wage hikes for federal contract workers and new environmental and workplace rules — are necessary because of congressional inaction, Obama said.
“They’re not doing anything, and then they’re mad that I’m doing something,” Obama said, adding that “they’ve decided they’re going to sue me for doing my job.”
Obama joked that, perhaps, “I might have said in the heat of the moment during one of these debates, ‘I want to raise the minimum wage, so sue me when I do’ — but I didn’t think they were going to take it literally.”
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