Posted on 07/31/2011 10:35:14 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON — However the debt limit showdown ends, one thing is clear: under pressure from Congressional Republicans, President Obama has moved rightward on budget policy, deepening a rift within his party heading into the next election.
Entering a campaign that is shaping up as an epic clash over the parties’ divergent views on the size and role of the federal government, Republicans have changed the terms of the national debate. Mr. Obama, seeking to appeal to the broad swath of independent voters, has adopted the Republicans’ language and in some cases their policies, while signaling a willingness to break with liberals on some issues.
That has some progressive members of Congress and liberal groups arguing that by not fighting for more stimulus spending, Mr. Obama could be left with an economy still producing so few jobs by Election Day that his re-election could be threatened. Besides turning off independents, Mr. Obama risks alienating Democratic voters already disappointed by his escalation of the war in Afghanistan and his failure to close the Guantánamo Bay prison, end the Bush-era tax cuts and enact a government-run health insurance system.
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The man doesn't have a plan. He doesn't have the deal-making skills a negotiator or veteran politician would have. His vision is a half eaten plate of warmed over Marxist theory, social justice yearnings, and anti-colonial guilt, smothered in the gravy of narcissistic self-adoration.
So, for the New York Times to think they can detect some kind of drift is absurd. This is no more than watching him push the fork around the plate, and wait for Mom to pour more gravy on it.
Where’s Al Sharpton? He always needs more walking around money and manages to profit handsomely whenever he runs, then has a convenient fire at his campaign HQ just before the FEC audits him.
Yep....Democrats need to decide whether they want to go with a looser, which I believe they’ve got now, or look for someone they feel can win the election. I think Obama is finished and the country is finally figuring that out. He, along with his people, are going to be stopped from ruining this country.
After trillions of dollars Obama has realized that the government can only create government jobs, only the private sector can create real jobs.
You don't suppose he is changing partys do you? /s
Which “rightward tilt” is that? He’s talking about trampling the Fourteenth Amendment right now. I wouldn’t call that a “rightward tilt”.
Just came back from DU (yes I showered afterward) and they all swear he has turned conservative and they will never vote for him again. lol
Even if they do vote for him they won’t work for his reelection.
Obama threw them under the bus.
fricken hilarious
rightward tilt is only viewable by Stalinist
Go back! It’s a trick!
They WANT people to think he’s tilted to the right.
Maybe they’re comparing him to Bush.
Hussein is NOT tilting to the right. What a pile of dog dung.
“rightward tilt”?? You mean like FDR and Stalin?
What drugs is the NY Times on?
What the DU Dummies and the other deficit spending addicts don't understand is that Buraq 0bama is doing what he thinks he has to do to get them their next public money spending fix before they start climbing the walls from withdrawal.
The only idiots who think Obama has been going rightward are outright commies who think Stalin and Mao were of a capitalist pigs.
Man,...thanks for the Link....some good stuff!!!
See link at #18.
Of corse they do. They have been trying to play this game for a while now. I really don’t think too many people buy it though.
corse=course
The only idiots who think Obama has been going rightward are outright commies who think Stalin and Mao were capitalist pigs.
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