In what looked like some macabre version of a Norman Rockwell painting, President Obama sat a a picnic table with a family in Virginia who appeared hung on his every word as he attempted to explain why the bad part of the economy wasn’t his fault. In his comments, which were dutifully reported by the AP, he said that he would likely compromise with the GOP over deficits and other issues. He went on to blame the GOP and John Boehner specifically, for blocking the extension of the “Bush tax cuts.”
It’s funny that Obama looks for a GOP villian to blame whenever things aren’t going his way. Last I looked, the Democrats still have the majority in the House. Last I looked, it only takes a majority to pass a bill in the House. Last I looked, the logical extension of the previous two sentences is that in the House, Democrats alone, can pass any version of tax increases or decreases, without a single Republican vote.
My history may be a bit fragmented; did Republican votes in the House pass Obamacare? Were Republican votes in the House required to pass cap and tax? My recollection is that Democrats, whipped by Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, thought these issues were so important that they through their political bodies off of the Capital rotunda to pass these bills. Political courage is what President Obama and Nancy Pelosi called Democrat House members to have. Political courage they had and political consequences they will now reap.
Every one who has polled the topic has found that a significant majority of Americans want the tax cuts extended. One would think that those who had the political courage to go against the American majority on Placebocare and Cap and tax would find it easy to side with their constituents for an extension. They would, that is, if it was really what Obama wanted to do.
I can see November from here. In fact, I can see it in HD (Hardly any Democrats).
Let’s face it. Obama is Bart Simpson. “I didn’t do it. No one saw me do it. You can’t prove a thing!”