Posted on 12/30/2012 12:34:31 PM PST by Nachum
President Obama turned up on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for the first time since the passage of ObamaCare, and gave exactly the performance that every veteran Obama-watcher would have expected: a bitter, intransigent partisan claiming to be the only non-partisan, non-ideological participant in the “fiscal cliff” drama. “I’m not driven by some ideological agenda – I’m a pretty practical guy,” he explicitly stated, offering his past four years in office as evidence.
It’s too bad “Meet the Press” doesn’t have a laugh track. Obama’s interviewer, David Gregory, was willing to flagrantly violate D.C. gun laws to beat up on NRA executive Wayne LaPierre, but when President Obama takes the stage to drop insane howlers like that, America’s top outlaw journalist just sits quietly and nods. In truth, nothing about Obama’s record in office, re-election campaign, or fiscal cliff policy has been even slightly non-partisan or non-ideological. This kind of posturing gives partisanship and ideology a bad name – voters do band together into parties and vote for candidates based upon their campaign promises, after all. Whether or not either position is correct, a Republican’s ideological commitment to low taxes is no more illegitimate than Barack Obama’s stern ideological commitment to raising them.
“They say that their biggest priority is making sure that we deal with the deficit in a serious way, but the way they’re behaving is that their only priority is making sure that the tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are protected. That seems to be their only overriding, unifying theme,” the President lied shamelessly about his Republican opponents, breezily ignoring all those calls for genuine fiscal responsibility and spending restraint from the other side of the aisle. No one who has spent more than ten seconds actually listening to Republicans talk about the fiscal cliff could fairly
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Sure...And I’m boy george.
PaHaaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!
You are being driven by George Soros’s agenda.
Alinsky must be so proud of this one.
LLS
Golden gate? London? I have heard about 47% of the population at attackwatch.commie or flag.gov or HuffPo that might " buy" it if it's free.
Please don't ask the logic in that sentence( there isn't any). I just finished a real weird discussion with the token activist liberal down the road.
Glad I blew up the TV last year. It's impossible for me to listen to him without getting physically sick and more angry than I think I've ever been Glad I have a range( mountain and gun) and the ocean to blow off steam.
Pol Pot on Meet the Press: "I'm really a very nice person, and I love puppies."
...the check is in the mail...I won’t...never mind.
father of lies
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