President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers' - Political Punch

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President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers' - Political Punch

May 04, 2010 9:07 AM

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”