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Obama tries “I feel your pain 2.0″
Yesterday in Holland, Michigan, we saw another outpouring of passive-aggressive projection from our Campaigner-In-Chief:
Aligning himself with a public fed up with economic uncertainty and Washington gridlock, President Barack Obama declared Thursday: “There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics.”
His toughly worded message — he said there was frustration in his voice, in case anyone missed the point — came amid a series of polls showing that people are disgusted with political dysfunction and are dispensing blame all around, including on Obama.
Obama aired his frustration with the ways of Washington just before pivoting to his re-election campaign and a pair of big-money fundraisers in New York City…
“Unfortunately what we’ve seen in Washington in the last few months has been the worst kind of partisanship, the worst kind of gridlock, and that gridlock has undermined public confidence and impeded our efforts to take the steps we need for our economy,” Obama said after touring a factory that makes advanced batteries for alternative-fuel vehicles.
I’d like to know what Mr. Obama meant by the “worst kind of partisanship.” Is there a “best kind?”
Oh yeah, I forgot. Democrat partisanship is the best kind. Anything that opposes the Democrat agenda is the worst.
This is nothing more than a campaign-driven “I feel your pain 2.0″ moment, intended to deflect public scorn from him onto his opponents. It’s a cheap way of trying to condemn mudslinging while in the very process of slinging more mud at Republicans.
Every day, President Obama is contributing to the very partisanship about which he’s complaining. Everyone but your Kool-Aid brigade sees that.
The “gridlock” he carps about isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. It was designed by the founders into our political process so that one party cannot simply bulldoze their opposition. Compromise doesn’t mean Republicans must give Obama everything he wants. He already got compromise in the debt ceiling deal. He’s still insisting on getting his way. Calling it a “balanced approach” doesn’t make it any less partisan, nor do condemnations of anyone who opposes his policies of higher taxes and increased spending.
A Washington Post poll released this week showed widespread and deep discontent with Washington. Nearly 80 percent said they were dissatisfied with the way the country’s political system works, compared with 60 percent in November 2009. Seventy-one percent said the federal government is mostly focused on the wrong things, up from 55 percent in October 2010.
Both Obama and congressional Republicans were targets of unhappiness, with only 19 percent of people polled saying that Obama had made progress in solving the country’s major problems, and just 10 percent saying that about Republicans. At the same time, 28 percent said Obama had made things worse, while 35 percent said congressional Republicans had done that.
Obama sought to channel the public’s anger in order to avoid being sunk by it himself. He urged the public to tell Washington lawmakers they’d had enough with the bickering and stalemates.
“You’ve got to tell them you’ve had enough of the theatrics, you’ve had enough of the politics, stop sending out press releases. Start passing some bills that we all know will help the economy right now,” he said. “That’s what they need to do. They’ve got to hear from you.”
Ginning up more voter discontent won’t make Obama’s approach any less destructive to our economy. And his speech does nothing to place himself above the fray. He’s not feeling the frustration that the voters feel. His frustration stems from not getting his own way.
Obama’s speech was filled with all the usual Democrat tactics. But this one phrase just staggered me in its utter disconnect from reality:
“There are some in Congress right now who would rather see their opponents lose than see America win,” he said.
That’s right, Mr. President, but not in the way you’re thinking. Congressional Republicans were trying to make sure the country didn’t get capsized by your tidal wave of spending, and were willing to endure negative political consequences as long as it yielded actual reform to entitlement spending that could save America’s economy and preserved our national credit rating.
It was you who vowed to veto a debt-ceiling deal even if it made it through both branches of Congress if it happened to require another debt-ceiling vote before the next election. That’s putting party politics ahead of national interest.
It is you who are intent on demonizing anyone who stands in your way of more confiscatory taxes and unfettered federal consumption of personal earnings. That’s putting party politics ahead of national interest.
Now that you didn’t get your Christmas wish of socking it to the wealthy, your Leftist minions have ramped up attacks on the Tea Party to shift blame for America’s downgrade from you to them. That’s — you guessed it — putting party politics ahead of national interest.
And that is the kind of politics that disgusts Americans. That is the kind of theatrics of which Americans have had enough.
Even after the deal was signed by you, your first priority is to make sure your opponents lose. All you’ve accomplished is to further degrade and weaken this great nation. Those are the actions of someone who doesn’t care whether America wins or not.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
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