March 25, 2009
Posted: March 25th, 2009 05:30 PM ET
From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart
Fred Thompson, a former GOP White House hopeful, said Wednesday that he doesn't want some of the president's policies to succeed.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Count former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson among the growing chorus of prominent Republicans who want President Obama's policies to fail. Tuesday evening Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called pressure to support Obama's policies "political correctness run amok." Related: Jindal defends those who want Obama to fail Thompson told CNN's John Roberts Wednesday that he agreed with some of his fellow Republicans who have said publicly they do not want the president's policies to be successful. Watch: Thompson on American Morning "I want his policies that I believe take us in the wrong direction to fail," Thompson told Roberts on CNN's American Morning. "If he takes us down the road of tripling our national debt in ten years and making us vulnerable to higher interest rates and higher inflation, and things of that nature, I want all those policies not to succeed," he said. Thompson, who made the rising cost of entitlement spending a focus of his 2008 presidential run, said he'd be happy to help Obama overhaul those programs. "If he wants to do that, I will join with him. I'll do everything I can to make him succeed with regard to that because that's the whole ball game in terms of our fiscal future in this country," said the former Tennessee senator. Thompson criticized Obama's ambitious health care agenda, telling Roberts the president's plans would cost the government more than they would save. Filed under: American Morning Fred Thompson Popular Posts President Obama
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