Whoa! Maureen Dowd Channels Dan Cirucci Blog!
By Dan Cirucci | Cross-Posted at Dan Cirucci’s Blogspot
Last week, right here we wrote about how President Obama lost the vote on the gun bill; here’s part of what we said:
President Obama is really more interested in campaigning and demonizing Republicans than he is in reaching across the aisle to make a deal. Obama doesn’t want a Democrat/Republican, bi-partisan unity vote.
If he did, he would have gone to the GOP with a solid 58 votes and that likely would have tipped the scales and brought two more Republicans in the fold and the scales would have been tipped.
But it wasn’t worth it for him to keep his own party together and then just two more GOP votes. He was more interested in campaigning all over the country, using parents of the Sandy Hook massacre as props and denouncing gun owners and second amendment defenders. All that was more important to Obama and his team than quietly working out a deal.
He didn’t want to do the hard work that needed to be done.
Instead — as is often the case with Obama — he wanted to grandstand; to campaign; to propagandize. He simply doesn’t appear to be interested in leading and building consensus the way a president should.
Now, the undisputed Queen of Liberal Columnists writing at the Liberal Bible (The New York Times) agrees with us.
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