President Obama on Thursday said that Republicans should
be “embarrassed” that they have not done more on Capitol Hill, blaming them for
Washington gridlock.
“They've got to be embarrassed,” the president said in an
interview on MSNBC’s "Hardball with Chris Matthews." “Because the
truth of the matter is that they've now been in charge of the House of
Representatives, one branch of, or one chamber in one branch of government, for
a couple of years now and they just don't have a lot to show for it.” Obama said that congressional Republicans
were too fearful of offending their conservative base to sit down and
compromise with him. "There's so
much focus on the politics of the base and Republicans being worried about
getting challenged during the primary season that inhibits a lot of cooperation
that is there,” he said. But the
president added that he believes there were GOP lawmakers who wanted to work
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