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Obama Bitter as Republican power grows in Washington?

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I have several ideas for posts, some related to the Prop 8 hearing, others related the animosity of certain segments of the left (in stark contrast to the broad-mindedness* in other progressive precincts).  But, alas, the last-minute revisions of my dissertation have both deprived me of time to blog and of the energy to craft original content.

So, I’ll just leave you with Charles Krauthammer’s commentary on the president’s statement on the deal extending the Bush tax cuts:

Well, I was struck by the tone and by the audience. This is ostensibly a speech to the American people. It was actually a speech addressed at Daily Kos, the New York Times, and MoveOn. This was a speech that was rather partisan. Interestingly, it’s about the first agreement and supposedly the first step in a new era of comity in Washington, but it was quite partisan. He attacked the Republican ideas. He said he disagrees with them strongly, but he had to compromise. This was a speech aimed at appeasing the Left which is extremely angry over this, and it laid out the details of the agreement. We came in a few seconds left, a few seconds after it started, but generally when you get a deal like this, he mentions the opposition and the leaders and he thanks them, and he says how wonderful it was entering in these negotiations and reaching the agreement. I didn’t hear any of that, which is odd for the first step on a new, a new kind of a tone in Washington.

Jennifer Rubin reports that after leaving the White House, Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid “looked like someone shot his dog.” He may have won a fifth term in the Senate and held onto his job as majority leader, but it seems his Republican colleagues may yield more power than he.  Contrast the Democrat’s demeanor with Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement:

“I appreciate the determined efforts of the President and Vice President in working with Republicans on a bipartisan plan to prevent a tax hike on any American and in creating incentives for economic growth. Their efforts reflect a growing bipartisan belief that a new direction is needed if we are to revive the economy and help put millions of Americans back to work. Members of the Senate and House will review this bipartisan agreement, but I am optimistic that Democrats in Congress will show the same openness to preventing tax hikes the administration has already shown.”

Far more presidential than that of the president.

*and genuine good will.  I’ve been wondering at what some lefties are really nasty in their commentary here while others do strive to engage us.  There’s more to that than this — and do hope to address in the near future.  I see this contrast in other environments than blogging.

Comments

  5. Obama can unite the country quite easily IMO. All he has to do is allow ALL taxes to rise across the board, no payroll tax holiday, freeze all government salaries, no unemployment extension, etc. and all of America will be united in protest. No president has done that in a long time. This is your chance Barry, you know, ‘for the greater good’ so we can all dislike you equally.

  7. I heard that Michelle Obama, Joy Behar, Michael Moore and Bill Maher have never been more embarrassed by America adn ashmaed of the US than they were yesterday –I bet they’re trying to figure out what went so wrong, so fast.

    “Hope and Change” has been replaced with “Life’s a Bitch for the Left”.

  9. Well, of course you’re going to complain about the tone. He’s given you everything you wanted, he’s played right into your hands, but you still have to come away hating the guy, don’t you? So complain about his tone! Yeah – that’s it! It doesn’t make you sound like a petulant brat who got everything he wanted for Christmas but didn’t like the wrapping paper. What a bunch of babies…

    Additionally – nobody around here ever gets to complain about the deficit. Do you really expect to be taken seriously after all of the tea party hysterics and theatrics now that the first thing you’ve done with your new power is grow the deficit? If it wasn’t the case already (it was), you guys are always and forever a bunch of unprincipled hypocrites.

  11. Levi:

    All of a sudden Obama and you are worried about the deficit? HALLELUJAH!!! As for “hating the guy” no, I only hate his inexperience, arrogance, self importance and disengaged rhetoric but beyond that I guess he is a nice guy.

  12. Levi:

    All of a sudden Obama and you are worried about the deficit? HALLELUJAH!!! As for “hating the guy” no, I only hate his inexperience, arrogance, self importance and disengaged rhetoric but beyond that I guess he is a nice guy.

  16. Actually, Levi and Obama Parrot, Obama said this morning that it was all the fault of “progressives” like you, that he had wanted to act earlier, and that he would have if your insane partisanship hadn’t screwed everything up.

    And remember, there is no principled opposition or criticism of Obama; if you do so, it is out of racism.

    Now, get under the bus, boy.

  17. Levi,

    “I don’t know what to tell you if you think Obama is some racially provocative moderate figure – all that reveals to me is how insecure you are with the very idea of a black man running the country.”

    I know I know, using Levi’s own words against him again.

    Shame that he’s so obsessed with the President’s race.

  18. “And remember, there is no principled opposition or criticism of Obama; if you do so, it is out of racism.”

    ————-

    If Obama goes against the stated goals of Obama, if he completely sells out the entire liberal movement, is it because he cant stand the thought of a black man in the White House?
    .

  21. Bill O’Reilly is right, politically come 2012 if you are a far left zealot it’s not like you are going to chose the Republican candidate over Obama.

    Imus Guest Bill O’Reilly, Frank Rich is A pinhead for his: All the President’s Captors article. Mr Rich’s theory the President suffers from Stockholm Syndrome, the Republicans have taken him hostage.

    http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2010/12/bill-oreilly-frank-rich-is-pinhead.html

  26. Bernie Sanders, the leftist socialist who ADMITS he’s a socialist, is on MCNBC decrying the new DEFICIETS! Talk about hysterical!
    I know liberals aren’t serious about over spending, but for Bernie to complain is quite the show.

  30. Jees….Barack Obama is President of the United States of America, Senior Statesman of the Free World and Maximum Leader of the Known Universe…..and you listen to his press conference and he’s whining and name-calling like some two-bit small-city mayor outsmarted by the local Police union.

    He’s not going to get much cooperation and bipartisanship by starting out the new Congressional Term calling the Republicans “hostage-takers” at a White House presser.

  31. Clinton would’ve made his backdown into a political victory, trumpeting his ‘bipartisan victory’ or burnishing his ‘moderate’ credentials. Either way, he’d make it look like HE was in control and the Republicans were going along with HIM.

    Reagan would’ve probably been smarter than to offend the opposing party to the point where he’d have to make so public and embarassing a backdown in the first place.

    But then again, both men had had a lot of executive experience before the Presidency… something we were told wasn’t all that important, when it came to Obama.

    There ain’t much to that Barry, is there?