Ryan noted that Friday’s session was the first time he’d talked to the president about policy. “We didn’t get enough of it,” he said. “It’d be great if we could get equal time” responding to the president as well as asking questions.
“I would hope that he would repeat such a thing on a periodic basis,” added Rep. Jeb Hensarling, who had a testy exchange with the president over the federal deficit.
Although the media has dubbed Obama the winner of Friday’s exchange, Republicans have tried to capitalize on it. Both the Hensarling and the National Republican Congressional Committee have used the back-and-forth in fundraising pitches this week…
Weiner seemed to admit he wouldn’t mind getting some licks in if he were on the other side of the podium: “I can only fantasize what it would have been like if we had ever had one with President Bush or Ronald Reagan.”
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