REPUBLICANS BLAST OBAMA’S SUPPORT OF THEIR IDEA

[Zorro]

Moments after President Obama said he would allow insurers to continue health plans that were to be cancelled under the Affordable Care Act, leading Republicans blasted the President for agreeing with an idea that they had supported.

“It’s true that we’ve been strongly in favor of Americans being allowed to keep their existing plans,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “But now that the President is for it, we’re convinced that it’s a horrible idea.”

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) went further in ripping the President, calling Mr. Obama’s tactic of adopting ideas proposed by him and fellow Republicans “beneath contempt.”

“The President should be aware that any future agreeing with us will be seen for what it is: a hostile act,” he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/11/republicans-blast-obamas-support-of-their-idea.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. Borowitz is hysterical but a lot of what he (and the Onion) says is almost not satire anymore

n/t

[libdem4life]

2. Seems that only comedians can speak "truth to power" ... like the medieval Court Jesters. Only the

fools or mentally challenged (supposedly) could tease or taunt the King and they would laugh. The King laughed at the supossedly comical character, while the rest of the Court was laughing because it was the truth.

At least we don't make ours wear pointy hats, checkered clothing, and shoes that curl at the toes. The Onion...Borrowitz...Colbert, and um, maybe Stewart.

[tblue37]

3. Actually, David Brooks did make that argument in one of his NYT pieces:

“The President should be aware that any future agreeing with us will be seen for what it is: a hostile act."

Brooks said that Obama was setting the GOP up to look bad--intractable and unreasonable--by co-opting their ideas, and that he was therefore not playing fair.