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President Boehner Turns His Back on Obama
Tomorrow’s headline, as written by the Tea Party, would be, “Congress Saves Economy; President Signs On.”
As their bunch crowds the White House out of the driver’s seat on debt-ceiling negotiations, the Sunday talk shows are dominated by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Chief of Staff William Daley insisting that Barack Obama is still in the game, not only standing by to veto any loony compromise but still taking an active part in the talks.
This spectacle of John Boehner presiding over a national crisis should be enough to make political pundits wonder if they owe Rep.Sheila Jackson Lee an apology for ridiculing her when she suggested there was racism in the way the GOP is treating the President during the crisis.
If Republican disdain for Obama has not reached that level, they are showing unprecedented disrespect for the man Mitch McConnell has vowed to make “a one-term president.” By trying to take the reins during a potential national calamity that they themselves have created, they want to make him a half-term president in the eyes of anxious voters.
3 Responses to “President Boehner Turns His Back on Obama”
Not racism…politics. Straight up politics.
Stein can be ignored again. [sigh]
Shannon, you’re right. It’s politics. That the Sunday talk shows are being exploited once more is no surprise. More to the point, it’s a lot of game-playing, and I believe testing and exploiting the public.
The debt limit can be slightly raised at any time (Congress can do it on the same day they decide to do it, and the President will sign it into law right away); no budget agreement is needed, and it won’t be had (much less show serious thought and planning for our future, demographically and economically — so it probably shouldn’t be had, shouldn’t be rushed), and after the debt limit is raised, both sides whose core members have been crazy will spend some additional time afterward with behavior as we’re seeing on the talk shows today.
It has to be racism. I can’t think of any other reason that Democrats and Republicans would disagree.