Obama to Congress: “we can all spend Christmas here together”

President Obama has resorted to threats to try and get his bill passed. Obama also told Congress, it's
“time to smoke the grass step on the gas.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says Congress should pass a payroll tax cut before their end-of-the year break, and he’s raising the possibility that “we can all spend Christmas here together.”

Obama made the comments Friday at an event on energy efficiency.

The president says he’ll keep pushing Congress to approve the payroll tax cut. He says now is not the time to slam the brakes on the economy, but it’s “time to step on the gas.”

Perhaps Michelle will bake some healthy cookies made from leaves, twigs and bark.