From The Hill:
The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.
During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.
"I hear these people saying he's like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it's crazy."
Wow. Talk about Not Getting It. I'm not for ideological purity - I'm for making good decisions and fixing problems. Which, in many cases, the Obama administration is not doing. He's not as bad as George Bush but he's also not the president of "Change" and "Hope." I think whoever said that Obama is for a kinder, gentler military hegemony had it right. He's continuing an awful lot of Bush-era badness, much of which preceded even Bush, but he manages to put a better face on it. That's all.
Yesterday, I got a survey about Obama's performance in the mail from the DNC. They wanted me to rank my priorities among all of the various issues. On the list were "Dealing with Iran" and "Dealing with North Korea," both of which are more or less non-issues in my world. Not included in this list was ANY mention of the environment, clean energy, offshore oil drilling, or global warming, or anything related to the health of the American people, including our continued lack of a sufficient health care system despite the passage of the health care reform bill. In the space for comments, I wrote "Are you Democrats or Republicans?"
Do I still need a drug test? |
