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A Republican lawmaker looking to lead House conservatives next year accused President Obama of acting "unpresidential" for his attacks on Republicans.

Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), an Ohio Republican with close ties to incoming Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who's gunning to become chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, condemned the president's sharp rhetoric directed toward the GOP on Tuesday.

"It just doesn't look presidential and it's not appropriate for the leader of the greatest country in the world to conduct himself in that matter," Jordan said on conservative host Laura Ingraham's radio show.

"I think it's very unpresidential, and I think it's unfortunate that our leader ... talks like that," he added.

Jordan referenced the numerous jabs Obama took at Republicans on Tuesday at a press conference to sell the deal he'd cut with the GOP to extend all expiring Bush-era tax cuts, in exchange for extending unem! ployment insurance and other tax breaks.

"Let me say that on the Republican side, this is their holy grail, these tax cuts for the wealthy," Obama said. "This seems to be their central economic doctrine."