Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wasn’t the first to say it but since he did two weeks ago, its a notion that’s become okay for conservatives to say aloud in public: The GOP can’t and shouldn’t try to govern the country when it only controls the House.
Ramesh Ponnuru of the conservative National Review reiterates the point in Bloomberg View today:
They spent four years trying to discredit him with the public. They need to accept that they failed.
It’s still in Republicans’ interest for the public to turn on Obama, as it was in Democrats’ interest for the public to turn on President George W. Bush the way it did in his second term. But if that happens, it will be because Obama’s health- care plan becomes an undeniable failure, or the economy gets worse, or events overseas make his foreign policy look naive. It won’t be because Republicans keep denouncing him. …
What they shouldn’t do is conceive of their near-term political task as winning a series of confrontations with the president. Because they’re unlikely to win very often. Obama has inherent advantages in political debates with more than 200 House Republicans, and his re-election will only strengthen his hand, at least for now.
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idontknow3
Jan. 29, 2013 at 12:18pmIt’s Obama’s nature is to discredit himself among intellectuals. He can’t help it. It’s what he does. It’s who he is. The GOP has no need to discredit him. He is a walking contradiction of himself. Benjamin Franklin said “If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. Since he lacks the tools for persuading patriotic American intellectuals, Obama persuades by appealing to the “interest” of non-intellectuals that don’t have a thread of hope of understanding the importance of true American Patriotism. It is their “interest” in fun, entertainment, gossip and the ever popular “the white rich guys have all the money and are keeping you poor by not letting you have any of it” that keeps Obama popular among those that elected him.
Socially on a race level he is either a white black man or a black white man. He can never be white; he can never be black. His whole life has been one of internal racial conflict within himself. His black side has the hatred of the Black Panthers for his white side and his white side has the hatred of the KKK for his black side. Black plus white equals nothing but gray. This gray manifested itself into the thug Chicago politician that became the “Community Organizer”. This gray guy stirred up enough minorities and influenced enough white race guilt to get him the votes placing him where he is today. A rich politician getting richer by appealing “to interest rather than intellect”.
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Fat Hubie
Jan. 29, 2013 at 9:05amWe, we, we who wants, wants, wants….
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