Toles Rant: Crazy Time

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Crazy time
By Tom Toles
Is Obama the worst negotiator in the whole world, willing to give up everything and unwilling to fight for anything? Or is he simply the worst president, just part of the hyper-partisan mirror-image parties unwilling to compromise? CAN’T BE BOTH!

Except in the media. The fun game of trying to determine which WAY Obama is a a bad president continues without respite. The fact of his badness goes without saying. If he compromises, he’s a sellout. If he doesn’t, he’s no better than Republicans! If there is gridlock, he’s to blame. If there is an imperfect compromise, he’s to blame. Feckless! Insincere! Passive! Ideological! Non-ideological! Partisan! Too non-partisan!

The possibility that he is roadblocked by an absolutely impossible Congress needing two houses and a filibuster-proof majority to tie its shoes in the morning, and they are two right shoes, is not one of the multiple-choice answers. If I were writing the headlines, that’s what I would write every day! INSANE CONGRESS DESTROYING NATION! That’s why they don’t let me write the headlines and confine me to this hidden little blog zone-ette. But couldn’t Obama just make a Great Speech and THEN Congress would stop being insane? If you think so then maybe you are crazy too.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tom-toles/post/crazy-time/2011/07/27/gIQAXQS6cI_blog.html

[lillypaddle]

1. K&R

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[phantom power]

2. I'm going to disagree with Toles today.

At some point, you have to stop negotiating with the insane hostage-taking terrorists. In fact, the longer you go on negotiating, the worse thing get will get over time.

[gratuitous]

3. I'll agree with your disagreement

In fact, when faced with an unworkable bunch in Congress, the President needs to enlist some outside help. Oddly enough, there are millions of people all across the country just itching for a chance to add their name into the fight, whether it's for single payer health care, a restoration of higher tax rates on the wealthy, or the cessation of two interminable wars. But for some unknown reason, the President isn't asking for help from us.

[Angry Dragon]

6. He is not listening or choosing to ignore the voices of the people

[Blue_Tires]

5. Reminds me of an old saying:

"...A fortress that negotiates is already half taken..."

[bvar22]

4. I disagree too.

ALL the rationalizations listed do NOT justify our Democratic President
adopting Conservative Republican Dogma to deal with a Recession & Jobs Crisis.

"Democrats" INCREASE Government Spending and STRENGTHEN the Safety nets to deal with Recession & Jobs Crisis.
Obama SHOULD be preaching Democratic Party solutions from the Bully Pulpit,
NOT reinforcing Conservative Republican Dogma.

Mr President, MAN UP.
Do the Democratic Party Thing of FDR/LBJ,
and let the chips fall where they may.