Obama Visit Draws Conservative Protests

By Nicole Houck, Contributing Writer

President Obama’s trip to Bucks County yesterday met with protests from a local Tea Party and a harsh response from the PA Republican Party

The Independence Hall Tea Party held a “Drill More, Spend Less” Conference prior to Obama’s speech. The purpose of the conference was to address the party’s distaste of Obama’s discouragement of domestic oil production as well as government overspending.

“The economic vitality of our nation is at stake,” said Teri Adams, Tea Party President.  “Our dependency on Middle Eastern oil has put our country in an extremely vulnerable position.  The instability and unrest in various Arab nations has resulted in soaring gasoline prices. This inflationary pressure, coupled with our nation’s weak economic recovery and out of control spending, could lead us into a deeper recession, or even worse, a total financial collapse–as occurred in European nations like Greece and Ireland.”

“Yesterday, Mr. Obama announced his bid for a second presidential term. If he continues his failed economic policies, the American people will most certainly fail to re-elect him,” said Adams.

Pennsylvania GOP chairman Rob Gleason also commented on Obama’s visit to Bucks county.

“President Obama is visiting Pennsylvania to talk about his energy policies, but the truth is that our ‘Campaigner-in-Chief’ has put more energy into his re-election campaign than to create jobs and fix our economy,” he said. “The President’s public-relations tours won’t mask the fact that the failed Obama agenda has resulted in job-destroying tax increases and trillion dollar deficits.”

“Pennsylvanians, who are very familiar with the job-creating opportunities that energy resources provide and who are tired of paying nearly $4 a gallon for gas, don’t need stump speeches; we need solutions. Failed leadership aside, the only energy that President Obama has cultivated is that of Pennsylvania voters who will work steadfastly to get him out of office next year,” said Gleason.