That sure doesn't sound like a man who has gotten the President to "cave" on anything related to entitlements, does it? As a matter of fact, it sounds like a man who is desperate for someone to save him from an impossible situation.
Britt Hume thinks we should feel sorry for him.
This all reminds me of one of the first lessons I learned when working with chemically dependent youth 35 years ago...sometimes you have to let folks hit bottom and pay the consequences for their actions. Speaker Boehner's time for that has come. Far be it from me to enable him in avoiding that reality.
Boehner's biggest problem is that he's got nothing to bring to the table, and neither do "the brains" (yeah, right) in the House Republican caucus. He keeps circling around that by asking the President to do Boehner's job, and the President isn't biting.
ReplyDeleteI think so much of it comes down to the obsessive need of people on the right AND left to script the president. For the right, if he doesn't say "Islamofascism" and "terrorist act" (vs. "act of terror"), then he is clearly a Manchurian al Qaeda candidate. For the left, the fact that he doesn't deliver EXACTLY the red-meat rhetoric they want in the way they want it means he's OBVIOUSLY up to no good.
ReplyDeleteLike our pal Norbrook, I also would point out that Dennis Kucinich, who made ever so many lefties moist around the -- eyes -- with his heart-tugging speeches, accomplished exactly nothing while in Congress. And Kucinich also was perfectly comfortable with voting to deny women rights to reproductive healthcare and bodily integrity until well into the new millennium. When you care more about a person's word choices than their policy choices, you basically deserve to be hoodwinked by slick talkers who do nothing.
And for those who kept screaming that Obama didn't really want to do healthcare reform -- I ask this: Then why the hell did it happen? He had the most perfect out from the campaign promise ever in the form of the worst economy since the Great Depression. Similarly -- if he wanted to destroy Social Security and Medicare, it's not as if he wouldn't have had willing partners in Congress the last two years, right?