Posted on 10/15/2010 5:11:32 AM PDT by maggief
WASHINGTON — Amplified by the right-wing message machine, Republicans paint President Obama as an unyielding left-winger, an unreconstructed liberal who refuses to compromise. The president’s critics have turned the truth inside out: One of Obama’s greatest political weaknesses has been his stubborn — and unrequited — love for bipartisanship.
The president has made some of his biggest mistakes trying to woo a GOP opposition that has committed itself to frustrating him at every turn. If he had ignored recalcitrant Republicans, for example, his health care legislation might have become law without months of damaging political drama.
In an interview last week in his West Wing office, David Axelrod, one of Obama’s closest advisers, acknowledged that the administration had been surprised by the unified Republican resistance to the president’s agenda.
“Well, I think we miscalculated,” Axelrod said. “We had the idea that, particularly in a time of national crisis, there would be more of an inclination to work together.
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I soiled myself and went to the AJC site to leave a commment:
Cynthia, we have a chief executive who has/had sky-high public support and unassailable majorities in both houses of congress, and yet YOU reach the conclusion that his efforts to compromise are among the chief root causes of his growing failures and inadequacies? Please. The man (and his team) are lousy leaders, executors and governors.
NET: If your party controls (with super majority) the Executive branch *and* the Legislative branch, you have a (very) sympathetic print and TV media, and your agenda fails the country and the economy, then YOU (as the President) *are* the problem, not your opponents. res ipsa loquitur
Leaving a comment there is kinda what my neighbors’ dogs do to my front yard when their owners walk them by on a leash ;-)
Tucker: The black Helen Thomas.
“Cynthia Tucker: Obama tried too hard to work with Republicans”
Just another RAT lie!!! With Bam there is no bi-partisanship, it’s “my way or the highway!”.
This idiot is one of the primary reasons that the Atlanta Uninal & Constipation is in the throes of death today. People I know won’t put up with her garbage. Her constant beating of “it the white man’s fault” wears thin pretty darn quick. To say that she is a “race whore” would be a huge understatement.
Yeah. It must have been exhausting for Obama and the Dems to lock the GOP out of all those meetings where Obamacare and the Stimulus Bill were crafted.
There's delusional, then there's Cynthia Tucker.
Until Scott Brown was elected,
there was absolutely no NEED to
“work with Republicans” -
not that they actually tried.
There was NOTHING the republicans could do to stop ANY agenda item that he put forth.
However, when people develop opinions which not only fly in the face of the obvious but are a precise polar opposites of the facts, there is something deeply disturbing going on.
This is not just denial of the truth. Collective denial has a shelf life (with some important exceptions).
We jokingly call it "the Kool-ade"...but it is no joke.
We are looking at prime example of "collective insanity." This is very, very dangerous stuff! Very rare...and very lethal.
“Shouldn’t there be an IQ minimum to be elected????”
Obviously, there isn’t one at the ajc.
I would say Obama works with his czars and that’s about it. How often do his Cabinet members meet with him?
One of my fondest memories is when I called to cancel my subscription to the AJC. They of course offered a lower price special. I declined. They asked me why I was canceling. I gave them three reasons:
(1) They are unable/unwilling to separate editorial perspective from the news, particularly on the front page.
(2) They are unwilling to admit their bias and agenda.
(3) I was tired of Cynthia Tucker’s drivel making it into my home.
The Call Center rep had no response beyond “we’ll cancel your subscription.”
Delusional
Cynthia, here are some facts you should aquaint yourself with:
1) When asked about his unwillingness to “work with Republicans”, Obama’s response was “We won.”.
2) Obamacare was written and passed without Republican participation.
3) The public has quit buying papers in which you write because you have no connection with reality.
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I agree, the Democrats are totally lost. Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is not working for these guys at all. This bible of theirs is unraveling.
Tucker is as socialist moonbat dim loony as they come. She actually beleives this nonsense and thinks you're stupid for not believing it too.
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