Watch on the White House Web site here.
Victor Davis Hanson at NRO has a great rebuttal here.
“Cap and trade, statist health care, and an end to “don’t ask, don’t tell” for thee.
And for thou, Obama the tax cutter, Obama the gas-and-oil driller, Obama the budget freezer, Obama the anti-lobbyist reformer, Obama the bipartisan healer?
This half-hearted pivoting was quite transparent: Obama made these about-faces without acknowledging that the Obama of 2010 is now and then rejecting the Obama of 2009, much less that the partisanship and bickering of the past year stemmed largely from the hubris of having both houses of Congress and an obsequious press. Instead, Obama seemed miffed that after Scott Brown’s victory he had to offer half-hearted sops.
After Obama spent 2009 ignoring jobs in order to focus on health care, he tells us that 2010 will be the year of jobs. So after a year of promiscuously talking about higher income, payroll, health-care, and inheritance taxes on “them,” Obama suddenly believes that small business is the engine of growth, and will therefore get new tax cuts and credits.
Likewise, after ignoring or negating his campaign promises about coal, gas, and nuclear power in his first year, suddenly Obama announces that we’re going to develop them!
Same with federal spending freezes. Same with ethics reform — the first general-election presidential candidate to refuse public campaign financing now deplores the weakening of McCain-Feingold….
…All in all, this was a nonchalant performance that ran for well over an hour. The president’s above-it-all cynicism, mocking, and dry humor didn’t work. The whole thing reminded me of a flat grad-school seminar with a snickering prof talking down to clueless students”
If only… (from the Onion News)
“Emanuel wasn’t the only one to notice a change in Obama.
“One night after work—I think it was a meeting with the Joint Chiefs—he came home late and just sat on the edge of our bed shaking his head for 20 minutes,” Michelle Obama said. “I was pretending to be asleep, so I don’t think he knew I was watching, but at one point, poor Barack, he just started whimpering.”
While the first lady remained confident of her husband’s return, citing Obama’s tendency to take long walks, Vice President Biden said he saw something in Obama’s eyes that told him otherwise.
“He’s gone,” Biden said. “He’s gone, and he ain’t never coming back.”
And finally, at the Peoples Cube:
Why is Obama So Afraid to Reveal He is a Communist?
Last night I watched newsweek editor John Meacham on Charlie Rose, I also watched a couple of other dems on C-span and the sunday morning talk shows. It was interesting to see them try to spin the Mass race. Overall, I think there is a sense of denial and desire to bluster and pretend as if nothing significant has taken place. I also just read this post at Flopping Aces about Dems going nuts. For me the whole argument is defined by this image.
Socialism is THEFT!
Charlie Rose tap danced around this issue as he interviewed Meacham, and John, smug and dismissive as always, declared that Mr. Obama was not a “Che from Chicago”. Oh really? With him Nationalizing as many portions of the American Economy as he can get his grubby paws on, the level of hubris required to make that statement is really unbelievable.
Flopping Aces summed things up nicely with this paragraph:
“Boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen…there are 281 days left until the midterms. Since 2006 Democrats have been running out of promises, taking ownership of issues, using up their excuses, and now…the wheels are coming off the hippie bus. EVERYONE from one end of the spectrum on the far right to those on the far left, EVERYONE is saying it’s time to put up or shut up. It’s time to either make people’s lives better or go down hard.
No one is settling for excuses. “Bush’s fault” doesn’t cut it anymore ’cause whether or not true…it’s more true that it’s Dems’ responsibility now.”
