Obama: Too Much Anger Management
With their fabricated debt ceiling fiasco, the GOP has tested the President’s patience and not found it wanting. As the deadline nears, the question is: What will it take to enrage him?
Barack Obama is edging into testy now: “This is actually a self-created crisis in some ways. It has to do with folks who are digging into set positions rather than saying how do we solve a problem.”
But as polls show overwhelming majorities of voters worried and disgusted at Tea Party antics, why is their President not reflecting their emotions and why is he still acting more like a mediator than a leader rallying them to put pressure on their addled legislators?
Die-hard ideologues keep shooting down each possible solution (the Gang of Six proposal is the latest), making it clear that the country is being held hostage with the clock ticking, but Obama is still sounding relatively sanguine.
“My interest here is not scaring people,” he says about the possibility of not sending out Social Security checks next week, but goes only as far as to say “there is no reason this should be a problem” if all the parties take “a sensible approach” to the issue.
This legislative farce went past “sensible” weeks ago, and the President still keeps backing away from the direct confrontation that seems inevitable. Now he has retreated from his vow against short-term deals, opening the door for an intractable House to keep the country tied in knots indefinitely.
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3 Responses to “Obama: Too Much Anger Management”
Too much anger management is right. Patience and reason seem wasted on the GO(T)P who have shown repeatedly that responsible governing in the interest of the country is far down on their list. What is needed here is a president who isn’t afraid to show some tough love and who won’t cave in the face of tantrums. Unfortunately, Obama seems more like the parent who gives into his childrens every whim.
“Anger management” [sic] Maybe he should be less unreasonable (and unreasoned), then.
And look at the even worse people he has a right to be angry at, as they cannot manage themselves:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-gop-leaders-said-to-discuss-new-debt-plan/2011/07/21/gIQAT81BSI_story.html?hpid=z1
Stein is often like E.J. Dionne and these farther-left poorly-flavored dinosaurs, with their far-leftish dinosaur BS:
http://twitdoc.com/view.asp?id=16568&sid=CS8&ext=PDF&lcl=608-11-Budget-Deficit-Ad-Final.pdf&usr=JoshG54&doc=60585056&key=key-17tszikydgd9q07ubcay
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Well management just quit, because the President is pissed-off now. If there is great division among the Republicans, all Boehner has to do is resign the speaker post. Now if he don’t resign it before disaster, I guarantee you he will not be re-elected.