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Defend America on Friday, February 19, 2010 9:21:38 PM
Obama flip flops on his own record
By: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
02/19/10 7:53 AM EST
In
his speech at a Denver fundraiser yesterday, President Obama repeated
what has become a key talking point for Democrats -- that the Senate
"doesn't get anything done" and the reason for that is that some
Republicans, who "don't believe in government," are happy to block the
administration's initiatives because blocking government initiatives is
"consistent with their philosophy." Here's what the president said:
Look, something you got to understand --
for those who don't believe in government, those who don't believe that
we have obligations to each other, it's a lot easier task. If you can
gum up the works, if you make things broken, if the Senate doesn't get
anything done, well, that's consistent with their philosophy. It's a
whole lot easier to say no to everything. It's a whole lot easier to
blame somebody else. That politics that feeds on peoples' insecurities,
especially during tough political times -- that's the easiest kind of
politics. There's a long, storied history of that kind of politics.
It's a charge you'll no doubt hear more in the coming campaign. But
it's a striking flip-flop from Obama's earlier statements in which he
praised Congress' ability to get things done. As a matter of fact, at a DNC fundraiser in California last October,
Obama said his administration and Congress had accomplished so much that,
"If we stopped today, this legislative session would have been one of the most productive in a generation."
And if you go to the White House website, you'll find the president
touting the very things that the administration and Congress have
gotten done -- bills passed by the House and Senate and signed by the
president. Obama often cites the stimulus bill, the equal pay act, the
extension of children's health insurance coverage, but there are more.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-flip-flops-on-his-own-record-84768277.html