Sunday Beltway Villagers Cry: Obama Is Mean To Republicans

[Mass]

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/sunday-beltway-villagers-cry-obama-mean

Face The Nation had an interesting "power panel round table" where bipartisanship ruled the day and all the parties involved could agree on one thing for sure: President Obama is being a real meanie to Republicans. Bob Woodward, Dee Dee Myers, Peggy Noonan and Condoleezza Rice all made the same vapid points to Bob Schieffer. See, all this obstructionism by the Republicans ever since Obama moved into the Oval Office has never been about them. It's all about the mean and nasty Obama is not being sensitive to their needs. Here's how Beltway sage Bob Woodward framed the last four years:

Woodward: ...governing is a collaboration between the White House and the Congress and let's face it, it's a collaboration that is not working. It is broken and the President has not found a way to close the deal with the leaders of the Republicans and quite frankly, with his own party.

I remember Katharine Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post, used to always say 'it's hard to not like someone who says they like you.' You talk to senators and congressmen, as you know, and they feel Barack Obama doesn't like them or is at least indifferent to them. And so you have all of these conflicts in negotiations and they end... Look, the President has the upper hand now and will for some time, but you know in any... Condi Rice knows so well, any any negotiation you need to leave the opponent with their dignity and the president is going out and sticking his finger in their eye.

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Schieffer goes farther and says Obama doesn't even like the process of governing or 'getting his hands dirty', which is a quiet way to frame him as just being detached and lazy. Dee Dee Myers chimes in:

He's a politician who doesn't love politics---right, I mean I'm not sure if he even likes the art of politics and that's a problem. He hasn't built the kinds of relationships that sustained other politicans in tough times...

At this point, Myers takes a moment to pay homage to Woodward:

You have to let the other guys leave the table saying they got something for their side, because they're going to give up something big if it's going to be an important deal. I think this White House has not done this as successfully as they need to 'cause you end up with Versailles

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Dee Dee Myers knows much of giving up a lot to the opposition, doesn't she?

[PearliePoo2]

2. You mean the same Rethugs who's priority was for him to fail?

Woodward and others...fuck off and Dee Dee ...et tu?

[brewens]

3. It's like they think we shouldn't even bother running anyone against Republicans. They should

get what they want regardless. Talk about feeling entitled.

[temporary311]

4. Not mean enough.

[indepat]

5. I'll say it again: BHO needs to bust (politically) a gaggle of Repug heads if he wants a good shot

at having history place him among the five greatest presidents ever, especially in view of a 2009 DHS report assessing domestic right-wing extremist groups as our greatest threat, even a greater threat to America, it people and government, than Islamic extremists. Hail to the Chief: now go bust some repug heads for me.

[SummerSnow]

6. Ok..ok..Mitch O'Connell said ...

"Our (the GOP) goal is to make him a one term President "

So Obama supposed to kiss their ass and smile?

[Dawson Leery]

7. The pundit class is paid well.

[TeamPooka]

8. 4 more years you neo con assholes!