Our new President is truly a savage politician. As America recoils in horror at the escalating insanity of the shrinking right I can just see President Obama smiling smugly.
This shit is seriously getting funny. He's destroying them with kindness.
Kos and many others here have become nearly frantic with frustration at the sometimes glacial pace of President Obama when it comes to implementing change. "Why doesn't he just steamroll the republican's? Why doesn't he fight back more? He should tell Rush to eat shit." I, too, have wondered at times what our illustrious President is up to.
The thing I always go back to when I become impatient with him is the patient way he decimated his opponents in the primary. It was a true masterstroke of political skill but it didn't happen overnight. It was the slow, steady cutting of his opponents that did them in. If anything can be called improbable it was his victory, and he did it by being the calmest dude in the room. In many ways he is the political equivalent of John McClane from 'Die Hard'. You can shoot him and beat him all day and he'll still end up dropping twenty pounds of C-4 strapped to an office chair on your head.
President Obama's secret weapon: Bipartisanship. The President is no fool. He's knows deep down that these corporate thugs will never learn to share. They're douchebags. So what do you do? Be totally reasonable. Insanely reasonable. Irritatingly reasonable. This drives bullies completely off the deep end. Why? Because they have no fucking clue what reasonable is. To a rethug reasonable is eating the last piece of someone else's birthday cake.
What really hurt the liberal cause and led to the ascension of Nixon and the neocons was the violent left wing protests of the sixties. This left such a bad taste in the American people's mouth that they turned away from the Democratic Party which was seen to support this kind of violent behavior.
Now it is the rethugs blowing their gasket on national TV and people are going to get sick of that bullshit real quick. Just wait till we see them on CNN fighting against the police at one of their teabag jamborees. (Actually not a fair match since most of the teabaggers will have stop rioting every ten minutes to relieve their weak bladders.) They'll be done politically for generations, maybe forever.
If President Obama wants to use patience and fig leafs to wipe out opposition to his legacy then I'll be patient as well. Some things are worth the wait. The death of the rethuglican party is one of them.