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Obama Tears into House GOP

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Harsh words at Baltimore meeting.

President Obama doesn’t always play nice: On Friday, he tore into House Republicans at a conference in Baltimore, saying that they’ve portrayed health-care reform as a “Bolshevik plot.” “What happens is that you guys don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me,” Obama said. "The fact of the matter is, many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable with your own base, with your own party because what you've been telling your constituents is, ‘This guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's going to destroy America.’” Obama also accused Republicans of practicing the “politics of no.”

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