WSJ blames even finds a way to blame GOP stupidity on a sinister plan by President Obama!
WSJ, in a former life was a widely respected business and financial newspaper. Today, is is a partisan hack rag sheet that is an empty shell of its former self.
Boehner’s leadership skills are severely lacking. He doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to lead his party. He is paralyzed by fear. An effective leader would do (at least what he considered to be) the right thing and forcefully put any “rump group” in its proper place.
I will credit WSJ for the politically correct usage of “rump group” instead of the alternative–assholes!
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“If Republicans are going to throw out the filibuster, it should be done based on more than the desperation of a rump group in the House.”
That “rump group” is currently setting the House agenda. Republicans are led by their asses.
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My sentiments exactly. These folks don’t need any goading when it comes to contradicting the president. Furthermore, the WSJ only wants to gauge Republican response solely from the perspective of political leverage - this is wrong - there are national security issues at play and the Republican willingness to try to toss red meat to their base and score political points says everything I need to know about their patriotism.
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“The sad if predictable irony is that this is exactly what Mr. Obama
hoped to incite with his November immigration order,” the editorial
said. “He wanted to goad an overreaction that made the GOP look both
anti-immigrant and intemperate enough to shut down the government.”
This whole fiasco was brought on by inaction in Congress concerning immigration. To blame Obama for something 10 years in the making is stupid and ridiculous. The Congress refused to act so Obama did their job and that pissed the GOP off. So now the WSJ blames Obama for something Congress refused to do… I guess that makes sense to the GOP bubble factory.
We all already know that the GOP caucus in the House is intemperate and cannot tie its own shoes w/o help much less govern. They picked this fight knowing it was completely unnecessary. The GOP should rightly be excoriated.
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And they won’t because they’re completely unaware of how to legislate and how to solve a complex problem. This is a Congress comprised mostly of people elected, specifically, to throw big tantrums and nothing else.
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You know who to blame for that. Ol’ Rupert
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Where are all these “liberals” that so frighten modern conservatives?
I’d like to meet them and swell their ranks.
What is that song about the Big Bass. A bunch of giant asses.
The term “incompetent” is far too weak a word to describe the Myopic Arrogance and Sisyphean Futility of trying to govern while simultaneously trying to appease the New Fascists (Tea Baggers) in the House who have NOTHING to lose with their out-of-touch voters and EVERYTHING to Gain by destroying even the most basic functions of the US Government.
You created this monstrosity hoping you could control it. Now you have lost control and have no Plan B because you put these fools in control of the House convinced of your own superiority to them (the “useful idiots” as you called them.)
I would revel in your success in being “Hoisted upon your own Petard” if it wasn’t so damaging to the country.
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Even though the WSJ editorial insults the POTUS by calling him “Mr” Obama instead of “President”, and even though it assumes that the motives of the GOP-led House are honorable when in fact they are not, it still begrudgingly, albeit between the lines, admits that Obama has played the GOP leadership like a fiddle. Have to love that.
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Hear hear…
The WSJ is trying (and not succeeding) to shift the blame from TeaBagg zealots (for whom halting a Federal agency charged with protecting the nation is not an issue at all) to the Scheming Negro in the White House.
“Exactly what President Obama hoped to incite?”
President Obama manages to incite BaggerNation by deciding to exist, when he gets up in the morning.
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Not a sign of disrespect. This follows AP style by using “President Barack Obama” in the first mention and Mr. Obama" in later mentions. AP style is the standard style-book for news writers.
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“He wanted to goad an overreaction that made the GOP look both anti-immigrant and intemperate enough to shut down the government.”
That’s right. And if that’s what Obama wanted us to do, we as clear-thinking conservatives must do the opposite. Fund DHS!
But wait! What if Obama KNEW that we would guess he was goading us into overreacting and that we would then thwart his plans by funding DHS. That means…we shouldn’t fund DHS! Let it die on the vine.
But wait!! What is Obama also knew that we would try to thwart his plan to get us to overreact to his plan to get us to overreact to his original plan to goad us. That must mean…that…wait a second I’m working it out…we SHOULD fund DHS!!!
Kind of reminiscent of Wally Shawn’s scene with the poison in Princess Bride. It’s just so hard for a clear-thinking conservative to figure out what to do these days…
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And there’s the rub. The United States is not Lower Slobbovia. It is a leading Western power and the world’s most powerful nation.
And so the damage this 20-25% of the population is doing to the nation and the WORLD (especially in the form of a House ot Representatives ill-“led” by the drunken Boehner) will go down in the nation’s annals as a particularly depressing time–assuming the nation and planet survive: remember, in the words of the “Jaws” dudes, “There’s a hell of a fish (read ‘Climate Problem’) out there”.
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If only they could all crowd into the clown car, things would be better. But as it stands now, some have to just stand outside, stamp their feet, and maintain the rest of the circus. It’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it.
I know that they shouldn’t go into any land wars in Asia even if they don’t ; )
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Yeah, the WSJ sort of scolded the teabaggers, that’s what they are, but they also slid in their hidden dig at President Obama and tried to craft a totally different take on the whole collapse of Boener and Co.
Just like conflating immigration with funding national security. The right wingedness always rises to the top with these clowns. They couldn’t stay on topic and the urge to blame Obama and avoid all responsibility overwhelms them all.
This failure is all Speaker John Boener’s, cut and dried, end-o-story. Boener could make this right with ease but for the total capitulation to the least experienced lawmakers in the land, the teabaggers.
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Once again the right cannot reconcile the dichotomy between their characterizations of Obama as overmatched affirmative action-aided community organizer vs. evil dictatorial chess master of the grand liberal conspiracy.
Sure is fun to watch their heads spin while trying.
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I admire Obama’s forbearance and adult manner. At least that’s the public persona that I see. I expect that privately he gets seriously angry and shouts at walls when alone. A successful erudite black man pisses off a certain subset of our population just by being. So they cast blame where there is none. All Obama did was to do what the Congress refused to do for more than a decade. And he stayed within his legal limits. Note that the repubs never state what limit he went past. And that is exactly the question I would ask were I a working journalist.
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He certainly seemed pretty drunk for the presser last week when he was blowing kisses.
