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RACINE, WIS. -- President Obama launched a broad attack against Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, accusing them of being out of touch with ordinary Americans and sympathetic to oil interests as he sought to capitalize on recent remarks that many in the Democratic Party view as potentially costly political gaffes.

Obama took the rare step of singling out House Republican leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) for comments he made to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review earlier in the week, when he likened the pending financial legislation to "killing an ant with a nuclear weapon."

"He can't be that out of touch with the struggles of American families," Obama told an audience during a town hall meeting here in a city with an extraordinarily high unemployment rate. "And if he is, he has to come here to Racine, and ask people if they think the financial crisis was an ant."

Boehner, in an interview, fired back at the White House, saying that "they're the ones who are out of touch" while defending his critique of the legislation.

mvscal wrote:Actually, Onogger is clearly the tard here. This financial reform bullshit has jackfuckingshit to do with the struggles of American families.

BSmack wrote:From what I hear, Boehner is too busy patrolling the DC bar circuit to care if anything he says makes sense.

Wolfman wrote:Let me get this straight. Joe Scaborough says that "every Republican he talks to says.." ,and now that is what all you independent minded thinkers parrot ? Figures.