Posted on 10/07/2013 2:47:24 PM PDT by lbryce
But note how very laudatory The Hill is regarding the wily Reid. And note the article goes out of its way to protect Obama from any political fallout from Reid's aggressive, no-compromise stance -- claiming that Obama is just a spectator in all of this, and himself only wishes to compromise.
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The Hill
President Obama has handed over the reins of leadership on government funding and the debt limit to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
Reid is now fully in charge of his party’s negotiating strategy, a significant change from past showdowns with Republicans./i>
He has taken the initiative from Obama, who played the principal role in the 2011 debt-limit talks and New Year’s fiscal cliff deal. Some Democrats on Capitol Hill are relieved by the switch.
The majority leader has brought a more pugnacious style to the debate, bashing House conservatives as “anarchists” and mocking the “Banana Republican mindset.”
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Wait, I thought compromise was a good thing? I also enjoy the Democrats' efforts (assisted by the Hill) to try to shield Obama from the political consequences of his decisions -- "Hey, Obama is just a big compromiser who wants what's best for everyone, but he's not in charge now, so don't hold any of this partisan squabbling against him."
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Wait, the President of the United States isn't in charge?
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I can't keep excerpting, but the passage I cut has more Democrat quotes talking about how open to compromise Obama is, but that he's been sidelined by... well, by someone who has no power to sideline him. cont'd
The Hill;October 7,2013-Smash-mouth Reid (Video)
President Obama has handed over the reins of leadership on government funding and the debt limit to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).
(Excerpt) Read more at minx.cc ...
Hahaha, just cause I give you the steering wheel,
doesn’t mean you’re driving the car.....
It means NO one is driving!!!
This tells me the polling is shifting, despite the coordinated MediaMatters/OFA/Mainstream Media “BLAME THE REPUBLICANS!” campaigning.
Voting ‘present’ is 0bama’s idea of affirmative action.
Reid doesn’t care, he just wants to be as close to the bus as he can get, doesn’t matter if he is on the bus, in the bus or under the bus, he just loves obama’s bus...
Just keep it up democrats until it becomes clear that the only solution is to abolish liberals and democrats forever.
Good cop. Bad cop. It’s just a game to them.
Wondered how long it would take for O’liar to throw the slimy Harry Reid under the bus. No one deserves it more.
This is where the rubber meets the road in Rush’s so-called “Limbaugh’s Theorem” where the voters do not associate Obama with his policies that are wrecking the place. Republicans need to be adamant and direct in their tying Obama to a refusal to negotiate with a House of Representatives that was elected to stop the healthcare law that bears his name.
If Obama is in fact getting blame in the polls, as he should, he has made a tactical error that will give Republicans an opportunity to pin many of his other policies directly on him. This has not registered with a wide swath of the public with only a casual, MSM informed “knowledge” of the circumstances.
There are plenty of film clips where Obama is essentially bragging of his refusal to negotiate.
Boehner is the most powerful man in the World right now.
So Reid is co-President ? Well at least that is something that can make people from Nevada proud.
The Tsunami is coming. The earth already moved and the water cannot be stopped now.
“he just loves obama’s bus.”
Well, Barry isn’t a kid & he doesn’t have cancer, he’s clean and doesn’t speak with a Negro accent. Unless he wants to.
What’s not to like?
OK, he’s a lying sack of Marxist filth. Bird gotta fly, fish gotta swim .....
No honor among somebody or other...
Reid wants to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral
Harry Reid is super nasty, so nasty he could care less if Obama dumps some of the blame on him. He could care less. He knows his role in this good cop-bad cop routine
Nonononono! Not me! Him!!!!
Kind of counter intuitive as Obama is not up for reelection while those in the Senate are. Figure he would be the one to fall on his sword for the good of the party rather than the party falling on the sword for Obama’s historical reflection.
are the Dems starting to crack?
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