Post by jgaffney on Sept 15, 2011 17:58:55 GMT -5
This is from the NY Post:
Do President Obama’s advisers realize they’ve got him frittering away the last political asset he has left?
As unpopular as the president’s policies -- and especially his results -- have proved, a majority of Americans still like and, somehow, even trust him personally. But his new political strategy is based on a manuever that even fellow Democrats see as transparently cynical.
He’s tramping around the country “demanding” that Republicans “put country before party” to pass his “jobs” bill right now -- knowing full well that there’s no chance they will.
That is, the president is posing as the one man in Washington who’s above the partisan fray -- and the pose itself is just a nakedly partisan ploy.
If memory serves, Obama campaigned on shaking up the political establishment. Is this what he meant?
Do President Obama’s advisers realize they’ve got him frittering away the last political asset he has left?
As unpopular as the president’s policies -- and especially his results -- have proved, a majority of Americans still like and, somehow, even trust him personally. But his new political strategy is based on a manuever that even fellow Democrats see as transparently cynical.
He’s tramping around the country “demanding” that Republicans “put country before party” to pass his “jobs” bill right now -- knowing full well that there’s no chance they will.
That is, the president is posing as the one man in Washington who’s above the partisan fray -- and the pose itself is just a nakedly partisan ploy.
If memory serves, Obama campaigned on shaking up the political establishment. Is this what he meant?