Rachel Maddow on MSNBC has documented a meeting among Republican insiders which took place on Obama's inauguration day in which the vow was made that they would obstruct block and frustrate his agenda -- being with cooperation. This agenda of passive-aggressive resistance has now passed into the active sabotage of a national jobs agenda.
Rachel Maddow on MSNBC has documented a meeting among Republican insiders which took place on Obama's inauguration day in which the vow was made that they would obstruct block and frustrate his agenda -- being with cooperation. This agenda of passive-aggressive resistance has now passed into the active sabotage of a national jobs agenda.
Obama was able to overcome this resistance in his first two years and enact the health care program because of his large congressional majorities. That ended in 2010 with the Republican sponsored backlash -- a backlash fomented by incessant and shrill and incessantly repeated rhetoric about "freedom" and big government encroachment. The Obama administration did not effectively counter this incessant din of misinformation. We have seen this of course before. It's father was Hermann Goering. Who accurately said the a lie big enough repeated often enough at high volume came to be perceived as the truth.
A soft answer doth not turneth away wrath in Washington. In a state of infantile rage Republicans will do anything to anything to defeat the communist Muslim who inhabits the White House. Including sabotaging the economy, which I believe is their present strategy
What disturbs me is that this blatant tactic is going unchallenged. Instead of progressives howling to high heaven in protest there is an occasional peep of protest (like this one). What is needed is for Obama to point out what is going on, listing all his attempts to initiate job programs and the Republican responses (obstruct).
I deeply fear that the Democratic side in this election is in danger of being blown away by naziistic tactics, superior messaging from the Republicans and humongus money.