Midknight Review -- new and revised: Senate Minority leader, Mitch McConnell, again invites Obama to get personally involved.

Sen. McConnell re-invites Obama to discuss debt...

Last week, McConnell invited the First Novice to get personally involved in the negotiations seeking to resolve the stalemate that is the Debt Ceiling controversy. The first time, Obama through his White House press secretary, Jay Carney, told the Republicans that such a "conversation [was not] worth having."

I expect the some sort of response from the Novice. He does not understand that the demand for presidential leadership is all about him. The notion that he has the right, as president of all the people, to take an exclusively partisan stance, is beyond the pale. Understand that McConnell is asking the leader of the Democrat Party for his help; he is asking the Democrat # 1 Partisan to do something that he has refused to do with the annual budget. We have been without a national/annual budget since October of 2010 and are about to enter the second consecutive year of governance that is free wheeling and without the legal guide lines of a fiscal budgetary statement. Its the law, but which Democrat within the Administration really cares about the law, in this regard?

THAT is the party with which McConnell hopes to negotiate. On top of it all, the Novice has demanded an increase in the corporate tax from 35% (the highest in the world or is it the second highest) to 40%, which is the undisputed highest rate in the civilized universe. Even Bill Clinton disagrees with this strategy, but it fits perfectly into Obama's class warfare strategy and his plans for winning re-election.

Point of post: I have good reason for believing that Obama is not in office to help. You might say, "But what about the GOP? Are they not playing politics, as well??" A reasonable question. Answer: meet with them and call their bluff. He has met with them before, during the end of year debate over the Bush tax cuts . . . . . and caved. Maybe he is afraid that he will do the same sort of thing, again.

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."

1 comment:

WilliamJuly 7, 2011 at 2:02 AM
The GOP has become radicalized. They are invested in the destruction of the American economy as a means to take back power. The GOP is so radical, not even Ronald Reagan would be accepted by the teabaggers.

As California Rep. Duncan Hunter put it, "a more moderate former liberal like Ronald Reagan...would never be elected today in my opinion."

Here's why:

Reagan tripled the national debt
Reagan raised taxes 11 times
Reagan expanded the size of government
Reagan supported the "socialist" Earned Income Tax Credit
Reagan negotiated with terrorists in Tehran
Reagan sought to eliminate nuclear weapons
Reagan gave amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants
Reagan approved protectionist trade barriers
Reagan signed abortion rights law in California
Reagan eventually debunked AIDS myths Republicans continued to perpetuate

Reagan - once a great conservative, today called a RINO by the teabaggers' leader Duncan Hunter.