Oh, boo freakin’ hoo. Poor, poor Reince Priebus. He is so choked up at the thought that mean old Barack Obama is deliberately trying to keep rich people from making even more money that he can barely speak at the horror of it all. I’m sure his self-proclaimed “good friends Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio” feel exactly the same way.
That ability to speak the most insanely dishonest things is one of the main reasons why he makes the big bucks as RNC head – the other being his ability to scare very wealthy people into donating even more money to the party:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let’s get a response right away to what you just heard from the congresswoman.
PRIEBUS: Do we want to continue down the direction of unemployment above 8 percent for countless months, a president that hasn’t lived the mission, hasn’t fulfilled the promises. People aren’t better off today than they were three or four years ago. Do we want to continue in that direction? Heck no.
And as far as Harry Reid is concerned, listen, I know you might want to go down that road, I’m not going to respond to a dirty liar who hasn’t filed a single page of tax returns himself. Complains about people with money but lives in the Ritz Carlton here down the street. So if that’s on the agenda, I’m not going to go there. This is just a made-up issue. And the fact that we’re going to spend any time talking about it is ridiculous.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You say you are not going to respond, but you just called him a dirty liar. You stand by that, you think Harry Reid is a dirty liar?
PRIEBUS: I just said it.
We have a very famous saying here in Philadelphia that’s several decades old, from then-Congressman Ozzie Myers, later convicted of taking bribes in the Abscam investigation. (He was the first congressman since the Civil War to be expelled for corruption.) It’s this: “Money talks, bullsh*t walks.” Good old Reince can talk all he wants about Harry Reid, but the fact is, most Americans now have their eyes on the ball: Why won’t Mittens release his tax returns? Inquiring minds want to know!
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, what do you want from him right now?
PRIEBUS: Listen, this president has a job to do. And Harry Reid has a job to do. We have an opportunity in this country to save the very idea of America. To bring back the days of liberty, freedom, the American dream.And the fact is, we’re just — we’re not doing well right now, as an economy. And this president, is the head of this country. And he has not fulfilled the mission and he hasn’t lived up to the promises that he made to the people of this country. And it’s hard to believe that the president of 2008, when he campaigned and said he was going to bring America together, that he would trot out Harry Reid and try to divide this country and spread this division and hatred. It’s ridiculous, it’s wrong, it’s untrue. And it’s just going to hurt the president.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Setting aside Harry Reid’s charges, a lot of Republicans, as you know, a lot of major figures in your party, have come forward and said that Mitt Romney should just release more of his tax returns. Wouldn’t that make a lot of these questions go away?
PRIEBUS: George, here’s what I think. I think this president has got a problem with the American dream. You know, when I grew up — and I know that both Republicans and Democrats listening to this right now agree with this — when I grew up, in a great place called Kenosha, Wisconsin, my dad was a union electrician, my mom was a realtor. We drove around town, and when my parents and we drove past a beautiful house on the corner, my parents didn’t point at the house and say, hey, look at this lousy people in this beautiful house. Look at this guy and his new Corvette.
My dad did probably the same thing your dad did and a lot of dads out there. He turned around, and he said, listen, pal, if you work hard and you go to school, mom and dad, we hope you live in that house. We hope it’s two times bigger than that house. That’s the American dream.
And this idea that we’re spending all of our time just killing people because they live the American dream and made something out of nothing and made money — I mean, this is crazy talk. And I just think we need to get back to the issues.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So the short answer is, you don’t believe it’s hurting him, you don’t think he has to do anything more on the tax returns?
PRIEBUS: I think it’s hurting the president — I think it’s hurting the president because people know that the job to do in this country and the job that this president claimed that he was going to do was, what did he say? Jobs one. He hasn’t met with his jobs council. The entire philosophy of Bill Clinton — excuse me, of Barack Obama — can be summarized in one word, and that’s Solyndra. That’s Barack Obama’s philosophy.
Yes, Barack Obama is Robin Hood. He lives to punish the rich and give your money to the poor. Oh, if only.
