Midknight Review -- new and revised: I tried to be bipartisan and the GOP took advantage of me. Geeesh.

Greg Sargent at the Washington Post, presents another Obama excuse for the landslide victory on November 2. It goes something like this: in Obama's thirst to get bipartisan support for health care, he allowed the GOP to manipulate the debate and capture the attention of a majority of the electorate.

Obama is quoted as saying, " . . . they [the Republicans] used every instrument available to them in the Senate to prolong the process in such a way that helped drive down support nationally, that gave everybody a sense that somehow Washington was broken . . "

The facts are quite different from the Obama reality. What is clear is this: a Democrat super majority doesn't really count for much. For a full year, the Dems did not need a single Republican vote in either congressional house to get things done. The blame for what did and did not happen in the year 2009 rest entirely upon the shoulders of the Democrat Party. Obama met with the leadership of the House and the Senate just once. There was no follow-up to either meeting. 800 GOP amendments were not allowed to get out of House committees.

There was not a bit of bipartisan concern from Obama and now, he is scrambling to offset the unintended consequences of having lost an election by historic margins.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

I tried to be bipartisan and the GOP took advantage of me. Geeesh.

3 comments:

copyright policy of the original Midknight Review