Ted Baxter bumparoosky.
Posted on 07/31/2011 10:43:12 AM PDT by Signalman
Bill O'Reilly thinks the only thing that can save the Obama presidency is the extremism of the Tea Party followers in Congress.
And he's right.
Maureen Dowd compares Obama to Jimmy Carter today in her Sunday New York Times column, clearly overwhelmed by the job, bowing to Republican demands at every turn, out of his depth.
And she's right.
Both leading Irish American columnists essentially agree that the only thing that can save this ineffectual president is the extremism on the right .
The two leading Irish American voices (pictured together at an Irish Central/Irish Voice event above) rarely agree on anything, but see Obama increasingly as a failed leader.
Dowd worries why Obama didn't just cite the 14th amendment clause that the Democrats including Bill Clinton believe allows the president to raise the debt ceiling an challenge Republicans to take him on in the courts.
Not this president unfortunately.
Here is what Dowd wrote today;
"The world is watching in fearful — and sometimes gleeful — fascination as the Tea Party drives a Thunderbird off the cliff with the president and speaker of the House strapped in the back. The Dow is hiding under the bed with a glass of single malt. Can it get more excruciating? Apple has more cash than the U.S. government.
Amid the chilling anarchy, there’s not a single strong leader to be seen — not even a misguided one. All the leaders are followers. You have to wonder if President Obama at some level doesn’t want to lead. Maybe he just wants to be loved."
Here's what Bill O'Reilly said;
"The only thing that can save Barack Obama at this point is craziness on the right…It’s not only going to hurt the Republican party, which has already been hurt, but it’s going to save President Obama who they hate…The irony is, the people who dislike President Obama the most…are helping him the most. You’ve got to stop this hateful rhetoric. Some of the rhetoric is so hateful…it’d spin your head around. You have to say, listen, we’re at a point in the history when we have to save the country…But I just hope they’ll all just say let’s do what’s good for the country."
O'Reilly is absolutely right. Obama can still energize the power Democratic base by pointing to what will happen if he is defeated. 'After me, the deluge' indeed.
But even that may not be enough to save Obama.
If the Republicans choose a half decent candidate such as Mitt Romney and the economy is still foundering, then Obama is toast .
But if they slew off and follow the siren call of a Michele Bachmann or a Rick Perry then they will lose out badly.
O'Reilly is right, Obama is there for the taking only Republican extremism can save him.
Dowd is right that Obama has gone from 'Yes we can' to 'No we can't. '
But given the current level of hateful rhetoric among Republicans they may fail to defeat the weakest American Democratic president in generations.
BO os a POS. Stop watching O’Reilly!
Interpreting this articles logic, people who want our government to uphold the constitution and balance the budget are extremists yet the Marxist Obama is not.
Ted Baxter bumparoosky.
I’ve got the solution! Let’s nominate McCain, while mellowing the tea party with Net Neutrality!
That will please O’Reilly.
The conclusion the columnist wants Republicans to arrive at:
If Republicans start ignoring the Tea Party and nominate Romney, they’ll win. If they listen to the Tea Party and nominate Bachmann or Perry, they’ll lose big time.
leaders? all the progressive spending and politicians have been leading this country since the 60s
letting them avoid responsibility for this disaster would be a mistake
we are in this position, strictly due to progressive ideology. period.
we must insure it has the red ‘D’ of debt pinned to its chest
It's obvious the two shanty Irish communists, er,........columnists retain their jobs forever because they, too, have their New York readers pegged the same way.
Leni
Pinheads.
Dowd and O’reilly are very similar. They’re both bitter old maids.
BOR is still around,Hey Bill how is your Boyfriend Obama doing now days?
“...is the extremism on the right”
...I’m a Tea Party member. Since when is the rule of law and a lack of enthusiasm for tyranny “extremism”?
So wanting to avoid national insolvency is labeled extremism! BORe likes the status quo and doesn’t want a fiscal reset; might effect his personal wealth.
If you cannot trust economic advice from utterly bankrupt socialist Ireland and lying Irish media hacks, who can you trust?
WHENEVER a pundit, talking head, columnist, reporter, etc. expresses faux concern about how the Republicans are hurting themselves, you can be sure the issue is hurting Dems.
Oh my MoDo! Caught in the emotions of your panic, fear and horror, you project all of that nonsense onto the Tea Party. What a joke. The Tea Party = Thelma & Louise?!!! What have you been drinking MoDo?!
For the record to use your poor analogy, it is your ladies - the poseur potus, sanfrannan & dingyharry -who are driving the country toward the cliff. It is the Tea Party movement that is trying to save it! And CZJ agrees ....
When someone can convince me that demanding a fiscally responsible limited government is extreme, I’ll consider the content of this article and the opinions involved more significant than the stream of spittle running down the side of the mouth of the liberal idiot who believes it.
I think this column falls into the category of advice from those who don’t wish the Republican party well.
O’Reilly is nothing more than a shanty, across the road ass kissing, Black & Tan supporting needless nitwit that most Irishers want nothing to do with. My opinion is that he would turn in the Parish Priest for having a bottle of Jameson’s in a dry county. I would much rather have a drink in the pub with Murphy’s Irish Pig than cross Raglan Road with this mope.
I second your snort and raise you a ROTFL!
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