Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Uphill Battle

Joe Klein is doing yeoman's work of late making up for the rest of the supposedly "liberal" media...here's atoday's:
World's Stupidest Argument
Bush flunkies trying to argue that Obama is more polarizing than Bush was. Given the fact that Obama had to take dramatic action, at home and abroad, to start lifting the country from the mess Bush made almost everywhere--and also begin to turn the country away from the myopia and greed of the Reagan era--it's amazing that he hasn't raised more dust or teabags. And, I should add the fact that the alleged polarization mostly results from the fact that Obama gets extremely low ratings from self-identified Republicans, who constitute an extremist shard of a party at this point, is a badge of honor.

In the long run, it's a safe historical bet that Bush will prove more polarizing than Obama because he was such an abject failure in the job--I doubt we'll ever see Obama submerge to approval ratings in the mid-20s, or launch wars peremptorily without cause or purpose. The constant sniping from Rove, Wehner and the others during Obama's first 100 days is a deeply neurotic reaction to the enormity of their own cockups in office. It shows a profound lack of class or grace, but then, that's no surprise with these guys, is it? They ran the country like thugs, and thugs they remain.

Klein has to bust his ass to counter asshats like Halperin...

1 comment:

steves said...

and also begin to turn the country away from the myopia and greed of the Reagan era--I hope he includes this under worlds stupidest argument. Greed and myopia existed prior to the Reagan era and I haven't seen anything that convinces me that Obama has tunred us away from it.