Contrasting New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie’s success at crafting a budget deal with legislative Democrats in his state, Jennifer Rubin speculates that it might be possible in Washington but for one thing:
The key ingredient missing in D.C., of course, is executive leadership. President Obama has ducked, delegated and demagogued. It is up to Senate and House leaders to forge a deal. And then to complete the task, the voters in 2012 will need to elect a president with the same fortitude and courage as Christie. Maybe Christie himself.
Emphasis addded. Read the whole thing.
Not really. Obama’s two biggest pieces of legislation were huge compromises. The stimulus should have been twice as large and the healthcare bill doesn’t incorporate practically any of the big liberal features of other public healthcare systems. Obama and the Democrats negotiated away the most important parts of these bills trying to get a handful of Republicans to vote for them. It’s actually national Republicans who fail to compromise and complain about being steamrolled if the Democrats don’t do every little thing they demand.
Obama’s a moron who apparently failed to realize that the Republicans in Washington don’t care about fixing the economy or improving the healthcare system if they don’t get to take all the credit for it. The only thing Republicans have been focused on since Obama took office is beating him in 2012, and they’ve done a very good job of setting that up. The Democrats basically ruined their own legislation because they thought they could impress voters by getting Republicans on board. And it was so unnecessary – Republicans should have been ignored completely in these deliberations.
The greatest failure of the Obama presidency is his misunderstanding of the basic nature of the Republican Party. Politics trumps everything for them, and he continues to assume at every turn that they can be reasoned with or are arguing in good faith. Republicans are single-mindedly focused on returning to power and couldn’t care less about the state of the economy, for which their party is largely responsible. Obama was presented with a tremendous opportunity in having both the house and a supermajority in the Senate, and he’s completely squandered it at a time when we needed solid leadership the most. He deserves to lose his job and should go down as one of the worst Presidents in our history, if for nothing else than his inability to handle a bunch of crazy people that pretend to be a responsible, coherent political party.
What a surprise. Levi attributes Obama’s failures to an inability to recognize how evil, duplicitous, greedy and power-hungry Republicans are. In his world, no Democrat is ever truly responsible for his/her own failures. Failure is always the GOP’s fault because–but for the existence of the GOP–the Democrats’ reckless and idiotic domestic spending policies could have been even more reckless and idiotic, which would have necessarily produced unmitigated success.
Levi’s irrational, breath-taking idiocy is truly something to behold.
Levi, even using your own flawed logic, your conclusion doesn’t work. Why? Take ObamaCare for example. Then Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the House & Senator Harry Reid took the intiative to craft the legislation & push it through by hook or by crook. In the meantime, President Obama played snake oil salesman. Obama signed the flawed ObamaCare legislation into law as the harpies continue to hatch on a monthly basis.
Obama is not a leader; he has no executive experience to save him. His first executive job is as President of the United States. He’s drowning as the clock ticks forward & his Marxist laws come back to haunt him with the inflation & unemployment otherwise known as stagflation.
Levi, your rationalizations are desperate.
Horse shit. If I recall correctly, the Porkulous was originally smaller and the only compromise on ObamaCareless was with the Blue Ball democreeps who knew if they supported it, they would have their asses handed to them come election time.
They ignored the American people completely, why should anyone believe that they were giving into Republicans. This is why you suck so badly at lying, Levi.
TGC,
Levi’s all for ignoring people who disagree with him. Democracy is a quaint notion to him.
Kind of like facts, truth, and reality.
So, Levi, you’re telling me, if Obama governed the way he really wanted to, we’d have an even bigger federal deficit, with even greater state control over our health care?
I don’t *need* to read the whole thing.
You have a hard-on for him because he stood up for
Gay
Civil
Unions.
And he’s a …
REPUBLICAN!
OMG.
STOP THE PRESSES!
Vince, did you attach the comment to the wrong thread? Or do you not have the tiniest clue what you’re talking about? Because that comment, in this thread, has got to be one or the other. Way, way, way off. You truly do need to read the whole thing.
Idiocy, defined.
In other words, the greatest failure of the family who comes home to find themselves robbed was spending so much money on personal possessions.
How this commenter manages to negotiate a transaction at the grocery store without breaking into a fit of self-righteous, proletariat anger completely escapes me.