Hat tip:This Week With Barack Obama

From The Wall Street Journal

January 23, 2009, 2:32 pm
Obama to GOP: ‘I Won’
Jonathan Weisman reports on the White House.

The top congressional leaders from both parties gathered at the White House for a working discussion over the shape and size of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. The meeting was designed to promote bipartisanship.

But Obama showed that in an ideological debate, he’s not averse to using a jab.

Challenged by one Republican senator over the contents of the package, the new president, according to participants, replied: “I won.”

The statement was prompted by Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona , who challenged the president and the Democratic leaders over the balance between the package’s spending and tax cuts, bringing up the traditional Republican notion that a tax credit for people who do not earn enough to pay income taxes is not a tax cut but a government check.

Obama noted that such workers pay Social Security and Medicare taxes, property taxes and sales taxes. The issue was widely debated during the presidential campaign, when Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, challenged Obama’s tax plan as “welfare.”

With those two words — “I won” — the Democratic president let the Republicans know that debate has been put to rest Nov. 4 .

Oh, to be a fly on the wall.
but, our poster Miranda put it best:

If I could have but one wish at this moment Lord….it would be to go back in time and be placed in the room when this happened…to see the look on the faces of those white male republicans…to see their faces turn ashy white and watch the very life be sucked from their bodies when President Obama smoothly said “I won”…that would make my life complete

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