Obama: GOP Beholden To Millionaires

President Obama took a page right out of the Occupy Wall Street playbook on Friday, characterizing Republicans in Congress as being in the pockets of the nation’s wealthy.

During a press conference in France, the site of this week’s G20 economic summit, Obama accused GOP leaders who have unified their party against Democratic efforts to raise taxes of taking “rigid, ideological positions.”

Yesterday, Senate Republicans and a pair of Democrats blocked a phase of Obama’s American Jobs Act that contained $60 billion for transportation and infrastructure projects. The cost of the measure was offset by a small surtax on annual income over $1 million.

“If that’s their rationale than that doesn’t fly,” Obama said. The president later argued that Republicans are placing the nation’s 300,000 millionaires ahead of the millions of people who are currently out of work.