(linked at The Other McCain – thanks!)
President Obama (*DfOaLG) gave another speech last night about the debt ceiling debate. It wasn’t a lot different than the last speech he made about it. He used the opportunity to blame the Republicans for everything that’s going on, and once again invoked the specter of old people not getting their social security checks, and similarly gruesome outcomes – even though he knows that’s not true at all.
The Wall Street Journal has a short editorial on the Prevaricator-in-Chief’s leadership default:
We’ve watched dozens of these speeches over the years, and this was more like a DNC fund-raiser than an Oval Office address. Though President Obama referred to the need to compromise, his idea of compromise was to call on the public to overwhelm Republicans with demands to raise taxes. He demeaned the GOP for protecting, in his poll-tested language, “millionaires and billionaires,” for favoring “corporate jet owners and oil companies” over seniors on Medicare, and “hedge fund managers” over “their secretaries.” While he invoked Ronald Reagan, the Gipper would never have used such rhetoric about his opposition on an issue of national moment.
One irony is that Mr. Obama’s demands for tax increases have already been abandoned by Members of his own party in the Senate. Majority Leader Harry Reid knows that Democrats running for re-election next year don’t want to vote to raise taxes, so he’s fashioning a bill to raise the debt ceiling that includes only reductions in spending. But Mr. Obama never mentioned that rather large fact about Mr. Reid’s effort.
Yes, you see it doesn’t really matter than even the Democrat-controlled Senate has given up on the idea of raising taxes. And, it doesn’t matter that 2/3 of the country thinks the Republicans’ Cut, Cap and Balance bill is a good solution. The Petulant Boy-King wants his way, and if he doesn’t get it, well, the sky will probably fall. At least that’s what he wants the American people to think. I don’t think they’re that stupid.
The Other McCain has a good clip of Charles Krauthammer describing the President’s speech.
*Descended from Olympus and Lightworker Genius, on the order of Wile E Coyote
