Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) has some advice for President Obama: Stop whining about Bush!
In an interview on NPR today, Kyl exhorted the president for passing the buck to his predecessor in yesterday’s State of the Union address. “I would have thought by now he would have stopped blaming the Bush administration for the mess that he inherited,” Kyle said, “and I don’t think the American people want a whiner who says,’woe is me.'”
When asked if the president’s remarks helped patch the yawning partisan divide that has paralyzed the Congress for much of the past year, Kyl was incredulous. “If he had an intention to reach out to Republicans, I can tell you [the speech] did not achieve the objective.”
Despite his advice for the president, Kyl went on to do some whining of his own over the issue of Republican obstructionism. In response to Obama’s charge that “just saying ‘no'” is not a way to help lead the country, he had some heated words. “That’s typical misrepresentation by the president in order to make a rhetorical point,” he replied.
