Robert Menendez, the other day, said it was like negotiating with terrorists referencing the tax compromise talks. Today, Barack Obama called the GOP ‘hostage takers.’
So much for reaching across the aisle.
Of course that is what Barack Obama had to say. His base is so angry they’d be breaking out the pitchforks and storming the White House if it weren’t for the Secret Service and their two year narrative that its the tea party that is the angry-racist crowd.
Ultimately, the most thinned skinned inhabitant of the White House in several generations, literally took one on the chin a few weeks ago and has figuratively taken one today. More so, he gave the GOP leaders — not necessarily the GOP itself — what they wanted and acknowledged that they’ll be in an even better position come January.
That just gives the GOP base the incentive to try to kill this deal. And no, I don’t think he is smart enough to intend that from his remarks.
The President of the United States today has been left with a few “I’m rubber, your glue” remarks in his newly styled sticks and stones White House.
But, Mr. Obama, I have a question for you — if the American people are hostages and the GOP are the hostage takers, what the hell are you besides a failed negotiator?
And if you can’t even succeed in negotiating with the GOP, how exactly will you succeed against Iran, North Korea, and . . . you know . . . the real terrorists and hostage takers? Maybe this explains why the 2010 troop death toll in Afghanistan is closing in on the total Afghan death toll under George W. Bush’s Presidency.
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Brian Darling (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 3:14PM EDT (link)Did the President really just compare Republicans to “hostage takers?” Not a nice way to treat people after a negotiation where both parties cut a deal.
“It’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers. Unless the hostage gets harmed,” Obama replies. “In this case the hostage was the American people and I was not willing to see them get harmed.”
According to
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/07/5606520-live-blogging-obamas-tax-cuts-presser-
Yes, he did
mspector (Diary) Wednesday, December 8th at 11:28AM EDT (link)not just “compare” Republicans to “hostage takers”, he said that’s what they were. An extraordinary display of civility and bipartisanship, wouldn’t you say?
Obama said this because he still has to sell the deal to the Democrats (especially in the House where Pelosi now seems to outflank him to the left). He doesn’t know how to lead in a situation like this, so instead of explaining it as (to him) an unfortunate compromise that had to be made because neither party could achieve its tax goals at this time but also neither party could accept a huge bump in the tax rates in January, he has to play the petulant child and present it as something he would never have done except for the sake of the poor hostages in the Republican basement.
Once again Obama will encounter the law of unintended consequences (or, more simply, “be careful what you ask for because you just might get it”) because his attitude on this will serve as a call to House Democrats to “go to the mattresses”. He may be unable to deliver the compromise plan at all (House Dems are already talking about amending the deal); if he does somehow manage to strongarm the House (not at all likely) he will at the same time fuel Democratic resentment and antagonism, which will mean a very contentious two years leading up to 2012.
This will be ironic because up until now the Dems have been able to vilify Republicans as unwilling to compromise, etc. Now the Dems will find themselves in that same position, because everything Obama does to get legislation through the House will be viewed by the True Believers as capitulation. Assuming compromise to be a necessary evil (no less necessary because it is evil, no less evil because it is necessary), it is almost certain that the House Dems will show themselves to be incapable of bending at all.
All of which should be good news for the GOP and Tea Party in 2012 if we know how to handle it.
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nessa (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 3:26PM EDT (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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Who is the real hostage taker?
Daniel Horowitz (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 3:34PM EDT (link)It’s amazing how this man child refers to us as hostage takers because we are not willing to steal money from Americans. Yet, he is holding funding for our nuclear program modernization hostage to the START treaty.
If we don't do what the socialist king wants, you are a terrorist/hostage taker.
seattlebruce Tuesday, December 7th at 5:12PM EDT (link)What a joke he is.
Oops, I mixed up my usages there (we/you) - sorry! nt
seattlebruce Tuesday, December 7th at 5:14PM EDT (link)He is a very small and petty man....I look forward
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 3:34PM EDT (link)to sending him home in 2012. I have never been so disgusted with a President as I have been with Obama and that is saying something because Bill Clinton really made the Country I love look bad!
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He certainly is the most divisive President in US history
antisocial (Diary) Wednesday, December 8th at 12:52AM EDT (link)He calls his opposition enemies, hostage takers.. calls citizenry extremists, calls the police stupid…. pitches main street against wall street… rich against poor… blacks against whites…women against men… corporations against people…
We need to make him a one term President.
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!
Your listed evidences of his thin skin would make a good
GCBWI (Diary) Wednesday, December 8th at 1:32PM EDT (link)political ad in 2012, no?
Did He Look In Charge To You?
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 3:37PM EDT (link)He reminded me more of Vince Young tossing his shoulder pads up into the stands than an MVP QB.
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It's time for Obama to grow up
frankieb (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 3:38PM EDT (link)My kids aren’t that much younger than him, and they outgrew this kind of childish name-calling, oh, thirty-plus years ago.
Multi-millionaire Claire McCaskill is acting pretty nasty, too. I sure hope she gets beat in 2012. We can do without her whiny arrogance as well as Obama’s.
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carmen Tuesday, December 7th at 4:26PM EDT (link)“But, Mr. Obama, I have a question for you — if the American people are hostages and the GOP are the hostage takers, what the hell are you besides a failed negotiator?”
He’d have no answer. And in typical Obama fashion, would simply take his teleprompter and go home.
I’m no prognosticator, but I think he’s gonna crumble. The only way the GOP loses ANY momentum going into 2012 would be if they embrace another McCain.
Un-presidential behavior
pamelagorman (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 4:39PM EDT (link)I think the title of this comment says it all.
Language & Labels
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 4:40PM EDT (link)The DREAM Act
The START Treaty
The Affordable Care Act
Network neutrality
The GOP are Hostage Takers
You go figure it out……
Those who had once simpered: “I don’t want to destroy the rich, I only want to seize a little of their surplus to help the poor, just a little, they’ll never miss it!” – then, later, had snapped: “The tycoons can stand being squeezed; they’ve amassed enough to last them for three generations” – then, later, had yelled: “Why should the people suffer while businessmen have reserves to last a year?” – now were screaming: “Why should we starve while some people have reserves to last a week?” – Atlas Shrugged
Not Adult Behavior.
msctex (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 4:49PM EDT (link)Petty, small, immature and self-aggrandizing, all at once.
It’s almost like a skill.
McConnell should have said: "We rolled Obama like a drunk sailor on paycheck Friday.
Tbone (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 5:12PM EDT (link)in a spirit of bi-partisanship.”
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
We can all dream, right? nt
seattlebruce Tuesday, December 7th at 5:16PM EDT (link)Wow, this guy just keeps digging himself
runner12 (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 5:42PM EDT (link)a hole a mile wide. His arrogance continues to astound me, even after all of his antics. Does he really think that he is going to get anywhere when he continues to insult conservatives? His behavior is completely un-presidential.
Every time I think he can't go lower,...
swami7774 (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 5:52PM EDT (link)…he surprises me.
What a pitiful, petulant fool. And yet some 45% of America will vote for him again.
Today, there is a name for the political doctrine that rejoices in scarcity of everything except government. The name is environmentalism.
I'm betting 35%.
davesinsanantonio (Diary) Wednesday, December 8th at 5:04AM EDT (link)nt
Call the men in the white coats!
zilla (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 6:26PM EDT (link)Barry has completely lost his mind.
Check out more highlights of his weird speech today:
http://www.punditandpundette.com/2010/12/post-partisan-president-itching-for.html
It's the drugs
pamela1631 (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 7:25PM EDT (link)they’re giving him for that split lip.
Making Barry talk all crazy like and seeing things.
He’s not accountable for his actions because of the drugs.
So what about all the other days, choices made and actions implemented? Hmm Barry?
Well, cat got your tongue along with that lip?
It’s the drugs!
*snicker*
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Projection thy name is leftist...
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jlsankot Wednesday, December 8th at 6:39AM EDT (link)This administration has been doing this all along. I previously tried to get this point across before I gave up on it. I’m glad to see the perception is finally spreading.
I think it would be a great point for the GOP to use against the Dems.
Is Anybody Really Surprised? BHO's Kryptonite
Superheater (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 9:45PM EDT (link)Somebody who thinks their political emergence can affect sea levels, or snaps “I won”, is a 50 year old man going on 5.
Most of us near his age or older have been in the real world long enough to have experienced some humiliating defeats and learned that exhibiting a modicum of grace is the best way to deal with it-live to fight another day.
On the other hand, we now know his kryptonite. The people we elected (THAT’S YOU, REPUBLICANS) to issue a “restraining order” (to quote PJ O’Rourke) should be willing to let the President exhibit his titanic immaturity as much as possible.
Start grilling his czars and fellow traveler appointees early and often.
9.8% meet 11% unemployment
Hammer2008 (Diary) Tuesday, December 7th at 9:49PM EDT (link)A two-year extension in time for 2012 campaign, coupled with a 13-month extension in unemployment benefits? There is going to be a huge segment of “”99-ers”, those who have received unemployment for almost two years, or 99 weeks. The reasons the GOP are arguing for tax cuts regarding small businesses are due to that ‘uncertainty’ that next year would have brought.. Now it’s all been punted.
Add that this is the most pro-union, anti-business Administration perhaps ever, it’s very likely unemployment may continue to uptick towards 11%.
This is nuts.
And let’s not even delve into ObamaCare and the 222 waivers (and counting) this Administration has granted.
Who will come to the rescue of America in 2012 — who can translate the angst felt and pain suffered by Americans? I’m beginning to think a certain Gulf-state governor may make a run for the White House, and I’d welcome his leadership.
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The hostage taking ...
cam1 Wednesday, December 8th at 9:18AM EDT (link)comparison shows you how deeply zero reviles us. he is a radical communist with a street thug’s work ethic. he doesn’t know how to lead only undermine.