Andrew Malcolm reflects on Obama’s leadership style as manifested in recent negotiations with congressional Republicans:
Obama will, no doubt, have more to say about the deal today. See if he throws in more sour grapes as he did after the GOP won its Bush tax cut extensions in last December’s talks. Back then, Obama, who promised to bring both sides together if elected in 2008, called his fellow deal-makers “hostage-takers.”
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Obama stepped into the stalled talks in recent weeks. He never offered his own new debt reduction plan, but used several public statements and closed White House meetings to show executive leadership and criticize other plans.
He used his poll-tested “balanced approach” demand numerous times (meaning more taxes as well as spending cuts) and sent aides like David Plouffe out to repeat how Republicans were demanding “my way or the highway.”
Via Instapundit. Read the whole thing
Wasn’t Obama the guy who was “trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame.“
I say again: we’re missing the big picture here. This debt ceiling negotiation has been a stage-managed “crisis” and a win for the Left, i.e. the cause of Big Government. You can call Obama a hypocrite about his rhetoric and you will be right… but whatever He did, it got His side a damn good result (for their goals).
What is eventually going to intervene on the side of the fiscal conservatives is the hand of Reality. The laws of mathematical accounting. More people (especially foreigners) realizing, later or MAYBE now sooner, that U.S. bonds are essentially a scheme to rip them off.
Interesting the progressive leftists won’t call a guy who shoots up Fort Hood a terrorist. They won’t call the detainees at Gitmo terrorists. They won’t call suicide bombers terrorists. But people who want to balance the budget and reduce the size of a Government they have no problem calling terrorists.
This is precisely why I’ve had it up to my ass with so-called “civil discourse.”
We’re being governed, for the time being, by a majority entirely oblivious to the words “hypocrisy” and “ludicrous.” They are consumed by an amoral lack of respect for the very people they govern, and are so thoroughly stupid themselves, their tiny, sophomoric brains cannot grasp the concept that perhaps, we knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, self-destructive troglodytes don’t hang on every word that spews from their filthy sewers as though it were the Word of God.
They are so completely and utterly clueless, they have failed to learn the lesson we taught them last November.
I have no tolerance for them any longer, nor any so-called “progressive,” who, on the one hand, spends his days trying to convince me that his inability to do simple math is somehow preferable to actual thought, while simultaneously sending me emails, deriding my decision to put him out of his misery by casting him onto the same ash heap presently occupied by Grannie Goodness.
Our “critics” are, not to put too fine a point on it, unabashedly obtuse, choosing to follow leaders every bit as qualified to legislate as the idiot at my grocery store who stares off into space whenever confronted with an item that just “won’t scan.”
The Democrat Party – “it’s got what progressives crave…it’s got electrolytes!!!”