Obama mocks Tea Parties

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Barack Obama: "Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security. But let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."

brainchild: If this administration rejects and ridicules free-market principles [and the people who believe in these principles] as potential solutions for reducing health care costs, then how is a serious conversation possible?