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So true.
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The Latest Slap
Let’s set the scene:
A newly minted President rides a wave of hope and optimism into office, and having gotten the public drunk on the idea of a new golden age of liberalism he started the nation on a path to conservative sobriety.
He starts by spending 2 years extending olive branches to the republican party, a party that has called him a socialist, questioned his citizenship, patriotism, and willingness to defend the United States of America.
The President then ignores tried and true blue democrats by refusing to see that the republicans don’t want to negotiate, they are looking to win in 2010. They’re running their caucus in campaign mode from the summer of health care town halls, to ‘young gun’ sit downs, to Paul Ryans fiscal roadmap.
The President ultimately suffers and embarrassing loss to the republicans in the midterms, largely because the public has started to blame democrats for a situation that republican policies created. The President’s own party is disaffected, but hopeful that maybe a new, more motivated, more feisty President will emerge.
The President then extends yet another olive branch, he negotiates a deal exclusively with republicans to extend a series of tax cuts that democrats hate and that republicans have as the centerpiece of their domestic agenda (apart from repealing the one major accomplishment of Obama’s agenda— which on its merits is more conservative than liberal). But, liberals did get a more feisty Obama, only this Obama turned on the very liberals that brought him to office calling them names and charging them with being too hopeful for change. We should, after all, know our place.
So to recap: Public drunk on liberal hope, President tries to work with the opposite party, opposite party slaps president in face, president insults liberals, reaches out to conservatives, conservatives continues intransigence, president chastises liberals for their desire to be intransigent, republicans campaign against Obama, win, Obama reaches out to other party, insults liberals for being too drunk on liberal hope, and now…
Now another, powerful, doozy of a SLAP. John Boehner says that the President ‘disrespected’ him by saying that republicans were holding the American people hostage. He says the President must not know the campaign is over… and as soon as this era of apparent bi-partisan cooperation began. It ended. Why? Because republicans got exactly what they wanted. They don’t expect to ‘get things done’ in the next two years. They are going to campaign, they want the Senate and the White House and they’re going to get them by taking advantage of the weak executive we have in office, and by acts of blatant hypocrisy like John Boehner’s today.
And Obama? He’ll try again, and when he gets slapped he’ll tell us liberals that we’re not keeping our expectations realistic.
In the 2010 midterm elections Democrats suffered from a so-called “enthusiasm gap.”
If Dems agree to the tax plan just negotiated by the White House with Republican leaders, they’ll face a “why-should-I-get-up-out-of-my-chair” gap that will make 2010’s Dem enthusiasm seem like a pep rally by…
"You are my forever, my always, my love."
— Me, to My Love
Imagination
Too fast.
You knew it was too fast.
Invincibility your strong suit— you pushed ahead,
foolish and foolhardy,
young. The other drivers were,
on this day,
more prepared than you
for when you ran the light
and almost crashed.
You didn’t die,
but you know you could have—
and it changes everything.
