Goodbye to the “post-partisan” President?

[Stephanie]

another view on that ugly speech
Links in article and video at site

SNIP:
posted at 2:31 pm on January 22, 2013 by Ed Morrissey

I guess I’d be more saddened by this had we had a chance to say “hello” at all. Isn’t this the same President who told Republicans “I won” on Day 3 his first term while locking them out of the process of writing his stimulus bill? Ron Fournier laments the departure of a man who never arrived:

Politics is the delicate art of compromise: Two warring factions solving problems by finding ways in which all sides can declare victory. It is not, as Obama said, the work of absolutists. Which is why he needs to walk the narrow line between confidence and hubris, or otherwise he won’t get anything through the GOP-controlled House.

History doesn’t make excuses. If Obama’s agenda fails because Republicans don’t bow to his demands, that will be on him. He has to work with or around the GOP. Apparently, he’s chosen the latter.

What happened to the idealistic young politician who argued against dividing the country into red and blue Americas? It seems we’re not going to see him again.
Well, let’s take stock. In the first two years, we had ObamaCare, the aforementioned stimulus bill that failed to stimulate and create jobs, and Dodd-Frank. Oh, yes, and the oft-heralded Lily Ledbetter Act, which gave trial lawyers extra time to file discrimination lawsuits. On which of these was Obama “post-partisan,” again?

In the second two years, after Republicans took control of the House, we couldn’t even get the Senate to fulfill its legal obligation to produce budgets, while Obama’s two budget proposals were so radical that they couldn’t muster a single Democratic vote in favor in three separate floor votes on Capitol Hill, let alone any Republicans. Instead, we careened from cliff to cliff, and in fact are still careening while Obama insists loudly that he won’t negotiate on debt limits, all while national debt skyrockets past $16 trillion.

However, Fournier is undoubtedly correct that Obama’s inaugural speech was mostly a thumb in the eye to his opposition. As a new spot from Crossroads GPS demonstrates, that message came through loud and clear to everyone:


David Ignatius ripped Obama’s speech in yesterday’s Washington Post in their blog named — wait for it — PostPartisan:

All of it here
Goodbye to the ?post-partisan? President? « Hot Air

 

[SniperFire]

America suffers mightily under this tyrant.

 

[Mr. H.]

"The departure of a man who never arrived".

That pretty much sums it up.

 

[jwoodie]

Do any of you Obama supporters even know where he is heading? Or have you abandoned your last vestiges of personal responsibility and are willing to blindly follow him over a cliff?

 

[Staidhup]

So he won, therefore he needs to bow to the Republicans.

On the flip Obama won therefore the GOP needs to bow to him.

The GOP for the first for years was all about the word No. It cost them senate seats and the white house.
Now Boner is caving on things and Obama must bow to the GOP.

This opinion piece is a fucking joke. Just like the OP starter.

Americans do not bow to anyone, only liberal spineless pantie wastes bow. Your Messiah is nothing more than the living embodiment of Partisan Politics, so shut up, pay your taxes, and continue eating crow.

 

[SniperFire]

America suffers mightily under this tyrant.

A Tyrant doesnt ask Congress to pass new gun regulations. They put a gun to your head and tells you to fucking pass the new rules or your head gets blown off.

You wouldn't know a fucking tyrant if he literally held a gun up to your head and said " Yo, bitch im a fucking tyrant".

The stupidity is mindnumbing with you people.

A tyrant held in check does. But when unchecked....... witness his cruel abuse of the will of the people when he was unchecked and rammed thru Healthcare legislation which the people despised.

 

[SniperFire]

A Tyrant doesnt ask Congress to pass new gun regulations. They put a gun to your head and tells you to fucking pass the new rules or your head gets blown off.

You wouldn't know a fucking tyrant if he literally held a gun up to your head and said " Yo, bitch im a fucking tyrant".

The stupidity is mindnumbing with you people.

A tyrant held in check does. But when unchecked....... witness his cruel abuse of the will of the people when he was unchecked and rammed thru Healthcare legislation which the people despised.

Which Scotus Upheld, which took over a year to ram through. Ramming doesn't take a year dipshit. Ramming means Quick. Quick would be a few a days. A year isnt a ramming.

Again you are fucking stupid.

Distinction without a difference.


More fail. LOL

 

[WillowTree]

America suffers mightily under this tyrant.

They deserve it, it's who they voted for. No sympathy from me. The more they suffer the better I like it.

 

[francoHFW]

Here's the facts- the American public is rejecting the half of the GOP that are overwhelmingly ignorant, brainwashed Rush/Beck/Savage etc etc (90% racist) MORONS like you.

Climate change IS happening and fighting pollution is smart ANYWAY, there should be be backgrpund checks on all sales and limits on assault weapons, jobs bills like we've ALWAYS had in hard times, infrastructure rebuilding, and help for education and training, and saying we have to do it together is NOT divisive unless you're "no compromise, un-American Tea Party GOP" (TIME).

Change the "channel" and we're hoping for your recovery.

 

[blackhawk]

This was the man who told us in 2008 he was going to change the way Washington did business here we are on 2013 and it's the same old same old I'm not shocked.

 

[Stephanie]

Here's the facts- the American public is rejecting the half of the GOP that are overwhelmingly ignorant, brainwashed Rush/Beck/Savage etc etc (90% racist) MORONS like you.

Climate change IS happening and fighting pollution is smart ANYWAY, there should be be backgrpund checks on all sales and limits on assault weapons, jobs bills like we've ALWAYS had in hard times, infrastructure rebuilding, and help for education and training, and saying we have to do it together is NOT divisive unless you're "no compromise, un-American Tea Party GOP" (TIME).

Change the "channel" and we're hoping for your recovery.

we already have all those things, but you have that magic money tree so you can pay for all this and not saddle your great grandchildren with the dept for your utopia, please start plucking