The Hill:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) accused President Obama's political supporters of "meddling" in the ongoing protests against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) controversial budget plan.
The Speaker said the president's political organization is "colluding" with special interest groups like labor unions to stifle Walker's proposal, which would limit collective-bargaining rights for state workers and make them pay for their pension and health benefits.
Obama "has done nothing to offer solutions" to the nation's fiscal woes, Boehner said in a statement Friday. "The president should make it clear to his friends that the people of Wisconsin, and states across America, can handle their own affairs without Washington special-interest money and meddling."
Boehner added that the protests were reminiscent of demonstration's against the Greek government's austerity plan.
"But today, we see the same sort of protests on the streets of Madison, fueled by President Obama’s own political machine," he said.
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It is a political mistake for Obama to involve himself in this problem of the state of Wisconsin. He has put himself on the side of the huge deficit and against the interest of the voters and taxpayers of Wisconsin. While he has locked up the vote of government employees, which he already had, he has alienated voters who have to pay for what these employees are demanding.
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