Comments on: Obama’s debt ceiling flip earns him rarely awarded upside-down Pinocchio from the WaPo

By: Drew the Infidel

Drew the Infidel — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:13:37 +0000

Mark Twain was right. There is only one way to look at a politician and that is down.

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:43:49 +0000

He could have said, sorry, but we have to do this, and gone over the cliff, taken the political heat for everybody

Dana, you know that would be totally out of character for Obama. He’s a textbook case of NPD – everything that goes wrong is always, always, someone else’s fault. Obama will never ever accept responsibility for the job. He’s in it for the enjoyment of the perks and of power over the peasants.

He’ll gladly take credit for anything that does work out well (the bin Laden raid, for example), but don’t expect him to own up to even one of his many failures.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:34:25 +0000

The President might have some grounds on which to stand if he had done something really radical like tried to reduce spending. But he threw away a big tax increase on everybody (with the fiscal cliff deal) to get a tax increase only on the most productive Americans, along with the expiration of the payroll tax cut) and a significant spending cut. He could have said, sorry, but we have to do this, and gone over the cliff, taken the political heat for everybody (since he can’t run again), and then been in a position to say, we’ve done a lot, but we need the debt ceiling increase to keep things legitimate, and there’d be no problem.