Obama tells Republicans both parties to blame for ’sour climate on Capitol Hill’
By APFriday, January 29, 2010
Obama: Both parties to blame for ’sour climate’
BALTIMORE — President Barack Obama is getting an earful from House Republicans who say House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has shut them out of the decison-making process.
Republican Rep. Peter Roskam of Illinois says members of the Democratic caucus have “stiff-armed” their GOP colleagues. Roskam says Obama isn’t alone in wanting to hit the reset button on 2009.
Obama says both sides are to blame for a “sour climate on Capitol Hill.” Obama says he’s willing to help bring Republican and Democratic leaders together with the president. Obama says he’s failed to foster those conversations.
The president says there are fissures within his Democratic Party, much like the GOP. He says a tone of civility would be more helpful than the “slash-and-burn” style sometimes practiced by both sides.
