All Campaign, All The Time
Obama isn’t missing a chance to spank the GOP. How this fits into his professed objective of ending the destructive rancor in Washington is difficult to see.
More likely, the president is hardening partisan lines and confirming the public’s view that Washington is a broken place.
Not only that, but Obama’s assertions fail the accuracy test. To suggest Republicans blocked him is laughable. Until Scott Brown is seated as the new Republican U.S. senator from Massachusetts — which could happen as early as today — Republicans can’t block anything.
The president has to accept responsibility for stubbornly pressing an ideological agenda that was out of sync with the public’s priorities and then not effectively advocating for his own proposals.
For a solid year, Democrats held a rare super-majority in Congress. Had Obama been a better politician and a more forceful leader, he could have passed his entire wish list. He squandered his advantage, and now he wants to place the blame elsewhere.
Distortions, acrimonious partisanship and diversion of all blame. There’s some change you can believe in, right? I’ve heard a non-stop stream of calls for Republicans to start governing now on the notoriously left-leaning NPR. Which is, of course, ludicrous. They still only have one vote with which to put the brakes on Obama’s schemes. Pray the foot doesn’t slip off the brake between now and November.
Obama is campaigning, all right. He’s campaigning to sucker the Republicans into getting onto his train to take a little ride with him.
Republicans must refuse to rise to Obama’s bait. They are not obligated to now yield to this autocratic man who cut them out entirely from the legislative process and was so incompetent as to let his super-majority dither or do little more than harm for a full year.
There’s a trainwreck coming, Republicans would be wise not to climb on the Obama express right now. This is rapidly shaping up as a throw the bums out election.
Bad time to decide to be a bum.
Obamantics | Gaius February 4, 2010
