I'm a wait and see kind of person, so when progressive heads exploded over this article, I knew it was time to do a little bit of digging.
For those of you familiar with me, I am an Obamabot, I am an apologist, I am one of the people clapping louder, so calling me these types of names and or suggesting that I am somehow deficient because you feel my support for the president is either unfounded or undeserving or whatever doesn't bother me.
I can dish insults as well as I get them but we don't have to do that do we?
Since I am an Obamabot I have a visceral reaction to just about anything that puts him in a negative light (I should get some credit from reasonable people for admitting this) and this article was no exception.
So off I go to see if I can refudiate the unrelenting moaning about what Obama has done to screw the progressive wing of the Democratic party this time. It didn't take long but I will get to that in a minute.
I like to focus on the people that have spent a good chunk of their lives in Washington. You know, Senators and represenatatives, the people that have been making policy and working with their GOP counterparts for years and years, sometimes decades.
I choose to keep my attention on them because that is the hard work that most Americans don't want to do. To me the President is like that red light on the wall people get their cats to chase. So it looks like this to me.
Red light on wall = The President
Cat = People
Person holding the red light = Members of congress
So when I heard about this 4T deal and what was going to be cut, I decided I would snoop around. First I thought I was say something nasty about the person who wrote it. She looks younger than me so I thought I could go with the young and dumb thing, plenty of people use that here. After looking at some of her other writings I thought it would not be a strong tactic.
Then I saw this.
Now is it some kind of end all argument that I can use to silence the hat... I mean concerned citizens that have issues they want to address with Obama in a civil manner? No.
“A $2 trillion package sounds big, but I think most serious observers would tell you that it takes a package of at least $4 trillion to fundamentally change the trajectory we’re on,” Conrad told reporters.
Like your mama used to say, "When there's smoke, there's fire."
To me this proves what I say all the time. Why blame Obama for things that are already written out by people that literally have spent decades working along side each other.
The article I linked was written a little more than two weeks ago.
To me that means...
1. that this wasn't a breaking story from the post.
2. Obama isn't caving to the GOP
3. more people than we think knew this was coming down the pipeline
4. Obama is more than willing to sacrifice his political future to provide cover for democratic politicians, that want to make the tough but politically inconvenient choices, that need to be made.
Don't take this too hard guys, healines are headlines, they sell papers and suck up bandwidth, but if you care about the real story, you have to recognize that this isn't some plan hatched by a "manchurian" candidate or fake democrat, like so many of you love to call Obama. This is what your party wants, this is what they believe needs to be done. Watch the votes and see if they don't come down based on political vulnerability.
So the next time you want to point to today's headlines, remember the first blip came out two weeks ago from the senate, then remember that this 4 trillion dollar number has most likely been tossed around for months and months by people who are far more friendly and cordial with each other than you want them to be.
Obama doesn't have to pressure anybody on this deal, they handed it to him after planning it out for a long time.
As if one guy comes up with a 4 trillion dollar budget deal between the 4th of July and now without any input from congress. It makes me wonder who really thinks Obama is the messiah.
BTW, you can continue to complain about Obama for things you don't like, nobody will tell you to stop, but don't pretend things are that simple and don't be lazy.