That was fast. Mounting his shrinking soapbox soon after the Senate passed the debt-ceiling bill, President Obama took less than a minute to lapse into his class-warfare shtick.
It’s always us-against-them with him, but yesterday was especially off-key. For all its drama and histrionics, the vote in Congress was a rare note of bipartisanship he could have embraced as a model.
The nation avoided the dreaded default and did it with lopsided support in both houses. A majority of both parties in the Senate backed the deal, while in the House, Republicans backed it by more than 2-1 while Dems split evenly for and against.
This isn’t dysfunction. This is a successful democracy taking action. It was messy and flawed and nobody loves it. But the deal proves compromise still can work in a divided country.
Yet the result doesn’t suit our president, who has an itch for punishing wealth and more spending. To scratch it, he turns reflexively to scapegoating. The man who promised to unite the nation instead relishes dividing it at every opportunity.
So we heard again that the evil “oil companies” and “billionaires” and the “wealthy” and “big corporations” need to “pay their fair share.” Doesn’t he ever get tired of saying the same things?
I don’t know which is worse: That he really believes such drivel will help America, or that he’s cynically throwing red meat to the Bubbas of his far-left base. Either way, he needs new material.
But the debt debate made it clear that Obama’s idea shop is running on fumes. Like a broken record, he’s stuck on the same song — bigger government, higher taxes. No matter the circumstance, he repeats the mantra.
Yet I don’t recall hearing Obama rail against his own Democrats.
They hated this thing so much that 1/2 of them voted against it.
But nothing against them…..from Obama.
I guess he won’t campaign for them though.
But by now any Democrat who didn’t learn the lesson that Obama don’t do that for Dems IS a fool!
This guy is the poorest excuse of a Presdent we have ever had!! All you idiots who voted for him I hope your happy, you got exactly what you and the MSM media wanted. Sadly it’s not what America needs. Thank goodness for the Tea Party Patriots!!
Curt
You said “This is a successful democracy taking action.” The USA is a republic, not a democracy. Every time someone calls the USA a democracy they are telling the propaganda media that their brainwashing is working. One way we can let others know how biased the propaganda media is towards liberals is to call the USA what it is. It ain’t hard to figure out why they don’t call it a republic.
At a Tea Party protest in Washington DC I mentioned to a teenage boy that we are a republic. He looked at me and ask asked, “What is a republic?” If we call the USA a republic it might get some people who have never heard the word, even in school, to start asking questions and start them on the road to finding out what is going on. Our Pledge of Allegiance calls the USA what it is. I suggest everyone except Bees say it right now.