Obama rebukes GOP: 'Taxes will go up in 11 days'

President Obama made a surprise visit at today's daily White House news briefing to chastise House Republicans, warning, "Taxes will go up in 11 days – unless they put politics aside. Let's not play brinksmanship."

After spending five minutes demanding Republicans give in to the Democrat plan for a two-month payroll tax cut extension – instead of the House Republicans' year-long extension of the break – Obama refused to take questions from at least two dozen reporters who called out as he left the briefing room.

The president began at 2 p.m., repeated what White House Press Secretary Jay Carney had already said a number of times in his press briefing scheduled for 12:50, which began nearly 30 minutes late.

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Carney allowed only 13 of the 46 reporters present to ask any questions at all – allowing CBS, AP and Reuters to ask four questions each.

Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, was among the 33 reporters from whom Carney did not allow any questions. Kinsolving had prepared to ask the following:

• Why does the president believe it is racist to require people to show a photo ID when they vote – when they have to have a photo on their driver's licenses?

• Why does the president believe his "legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in his first two years were greater" than the Father of Our Country and Presidents Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan?

Ask President Obama your own question.