Really? Scalise Claims GOP ‘Never Disrespected The Office’ Under Obama

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 11: House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Republican Conference at the U.S. Capitol June 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. The House Republicans... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 11: House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) speaks during a news conference following the weekly Republican Conference at the U.S. Capitol June 11, 2019 in Washington, DC. The House Republicans demanded passage of the National Defense Authorization Act and pushed for an increase in military spending while being critical of Democrats' focus on the Mueller report. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) claimed on Tuesday that Republicans “never disrespected” the office of the President when Barack Obama was in charge.

During a press conference with GOP leadership, Scalise complained about Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s (D-MA) refusal to call President Donald Trump the president, preferring instead to call him “the occupant.”

“Look, we disagreed with Barack Obama on a lot of things that he did. The policies,” Scalise said. “As our conference chair laid out, there are a lot of policies that we have disagreements on with Speaker Pelosi and her socialist Democrats, just like we had disagreements with a lot of Barack Obama’s policies, but we never disrespected the office.”

“I called him President of the United States, as we all did. If he asked us to go meet with him at the White House, we went,” he continued. “We expressed our disagreements in a respectful way.”

Scalise apparently forgot the infamous moments when former Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted “You lie!” at Obama in the middle of a joint session of Congress, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declaring that the “single most important thing” for the GOP to achieve is making Obama a “one-term president,” and the many congressional Republicans either openly touting Trump’s birther conspiracy theory or declining to reject it.

Watch Scalise below:

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  1. “Scalise Claims GOP ‘Never Disrespected The Office’ Under Obama.”

    “You lie!”

  2. Oh, where do we start, Steve?

  3. Is he angling to get on Meet the Press?

  4. That moment when God gives you a second chance at life, and you just continue to sin and fuck everything up

  5. To be clear, Steve, you’re saying that just because Prez. Hatespeech was a private citizen in 2011, his birther defamation doesn’t count against Party-o-Lincoln?

    Cuz if that’s your argument, you still have to explain Boehner saying “none of my business” about the GOP birther racists.

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