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Senator
Multiple news sites, lead by Huffpo, are featuring dozens of tweets by professional journalists who attended Obama’s “me so sorry” press conference yesterday. After telling people they could keep their old insurance policies – if they could get the insurers to un-cancel them – he launched into an existential whine that the press isn’t reporting the good things happening in his administration.
Let’s set aside for the moment that the press is SUPPOSED to have an adversarial relationship with big government, not act as its paid mouthpiece. No democrats were critical when the press took on Bush night and day, with much justification.
Rather, let’s ask the obvious question – okay, Mr. President, what ARE those positives you’re hoping will dominate the news cycles. Name one . . . I dare you.
Since the start of this year we’ve had Benghazi cover-ups; epic national security leaks by Snowden; discovered that the IRS has a nixonian-style enemies list at your behest; the NSA, CIA and every other agency apparently has 100% access to our calls and email; deteriorating foreign relations; a sequester AND a shutdown, over your refusals to “negotiate with tea party terrorists” (but unilaterally granting their central demand when your website crashed); escalating deficits to go with the agony of higher taxes . .. Not to mention record food stamp enrollments, racial animosity, the most partisan political rhetoric in our lifetimes.
What are the positives, Mr. President? Earlier this week some PJ pundit asked rhetorically why conservatives weren’t lauding you for lower gas prices. They are indeed lower – but can you point to a single action your administration took to drive them down? Don’t point to “cash for clunkers” – that was YEARS ago and the net impact, as calculated by the GAO, was less than 0.1 MPG in the nation’s average fuel economy. Rather, I suspect people are diving less because they can’t afford it, what with high unemployment, workweek hours being cut back, and higher taxes.
Every president wants the press to report good news about his administration. But Obama is the first one in memory to demand it as a right of office, and be too dense to understand that his administration is 98% disaster.
Let’s set aside for the moment that the press is SUPPOSED to have an adversarial relationship with big government, not act as its paid mouthpiece. No democrats were critical when the press took on Bush night and day, with much justification.
Rather, let’s ask the obvious question – okay, Mr. President, what ARE those positives you’re hoping will dominate the news cycles. Name one . . . I dare you.
Since the start of this year we’ve had Benghazi cover-ups; epic national security leaks by Snowden; discovered that the IRS has a nixonian-style enemies list at your behest; the NSA, CIA and every other agency apparently has 100% access to our calls and email; deteriorating foreign relations; a sequester AND a shutdown, over your refusals to “negotiate with tea party terrorists” (but unilaterally granting their central demand when your website crashed); escalating deficits to go with the agony of higher taxes . .. Not to mention record food stamp enrollments, racial animosity, the most partisan political rhetoric in our lifetimes.
What are the positives, Mr. President? Earlier this week some PJ pundit asked rhetorically why conservatives weren’t lauding you for lower gas prices. They are indeed lower – but can you point to a single action your administration took to drive them down? Don’t point to “cash for clunkers” – that was YEARS ago and the net impact, as calculated by the GAO, was less than 0.1 MPG in the nation’s average fuel economy. Rather, I suspect people are diving less because they can’t afford it, what with high unemployment, workweek hours being cut back, and higher taxes.
Every president wants the press to report good news about his administration. But Obama is the first one in memory to demand it as a right of office, and be too dense to understand that his administration is 98% disaster.
