More positive reviews of what President Obama did keep coming in. And by positive reviews, I mean negative reviews from the right wing. The Rush Limbaugh crowd hates the deal. Tea Party god Jim DeMint says he’ll filibuster it. Well, put that on the list of things Jim DeMint will filibuster… right after “everything.”The right wing is also apoplectic about President Obama comparing the situation to “hostage takers.” Obama isn’t just willing to deal realistically with what the Republicans are doing… he’s also willing to call it what it really is. This was definitely hostage taking. The Republicans should have written their tax cut proposals with words cut out of magazines like kidnappers do. And Obama should have conducted the tax cut negotiations through a megaphone. It was like “Dog Day Afternoon II,” except Al Pacino is a much more charismatic hostage taker than Mitch McConnell.
The tax cut deal functions as a backdoor stimulus plan. It’s not the most efficient way to stimulate the economy, but then the Republicans are on the lookout to stop all the most efficient ways of stimulating the economy. Obama snuck a second stimulus bill past the Republicans while they were busy counting all the money they got for the rich.
As for leftwing discontent, Obama’s approval rating among Democrats has held steady at about 80 percent for the past year. But you’d never know that because of Obama’s seemingly dismal approval rating among Democrats with TV talk shows or blogs. It seems Obama has a silent majority. Or maybe they just seem silent compared to all the noise that’s being made by the leftwingers who are angry with him. The people who are upset with Obama are the starry-eyed types who projected all their hopes onto him. The people who just elected him to run the country realize that he’s doing that… quite well, actually. After all, we elected Barack Obama to lead, not to go where he’s told to go.
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