This is the kind of drivel that won Eugene Robinson the Pulitzer Prize while he copied and pasted Obama campaign press releases in 2008;
In the punditry business, it’s considered bad form to question the essential wisdom of the American people. But at this point, it’s impossible to ignore the obvious: The American people are acting like a bunch of spoiled brats.
Robinson tell us it’s not his partisan leanings that influenced his insults – it’s his amazing command of the cut and paste journalism which he has mastered along with his ability to see the truth from his ivory tower.
Yup, insults have always been the impetus to bring voters back to the plantation. It’s a brilliant strategy and I hope Robinson and his fellow uber-partisan friends at the Washington Post keep it up.
Suddenly, Robinson finds himself making excuses for the length of time Obama needs to correct the “structural problems” that haunt this administration instead of his usual practice of highlighting the winning strategies which were all too far over our heads for us to notice. Yeah, Gene, how much smarter are you than we?
The richest Americans need to pay higher taxes — not because they’re bad people who deserve to be punished but because they earn a much bigger share of the nation’s income and hold a bigger share of its overall wealth. If they don’t pay more, there won’t be enough revenue to maintain, much less improve, the kind of infrastructure that fosters economic growth
And where will the jobs for all of those voters come from, Gene? Are we going to raise the benefits for the unemployed so that they can hire maids and gardeners? Is that your plan for “the foundation of the 21st century economy”?
…starting with weaning the nation off of its dependence on fossil fuels, which means there will have to be an increase in the price of oil.
What do we use in the interim, Doctor Robinson? Shouldn’t there be an affordable alternate before we jack the price of oil out of the reach of the average, working American? Isn’t raising the price of oil kind of premature when so many average Americans depend on it to get to work? Obviously, the urbane Eugene Robinson has never worked out in the real America that doesn’t have subways and buses to offset their commute – that’s the whole problem with the Bethesda crowd. The Beltway ignorance doesn’t just affect Congress.
It’s bad enough that the Democratic Party’s “favorable” rating has fallen to an abysmal 33 percent, according to a recent NBC-Wall Street Journal poll. It’s worse that the Republican Party’s favorability has plunged to just 24 percent. But incredibly, according to Gallup, registered voters say they intend to vote for Republicans over Democrats by an astounding 10-point margin.
Because the thin veneer of the 2008 campaign has been washed away by the failures of this administration. Maybe people don’t like the Republicans, but at least their policies have a positive effect on their lives. This crisis began while the Democrats and their childish antics reigned in the People’s House.
My bank was one of the first to fail in 2007 – nearly a year after the Democrats occupied the Congress – so I remember who stood by and watched the whole thing collapse so they could use it as a weapon in the 2008 election instead of shoring it all up in the beginning. It’s only fitting that their own dog turned around and bite them. And, oh, Eugene…bite me.