During his big speech to Democrats about accepting the deal he cut with Republicans, Obama told the assembled personages that he doesn’t normally negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage is about to harmed. He went on to say that the hostages, in this case, are the American people. Well, that’s a great way to build bridges between the aisles, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
Of course he stole the line from at least two journalistic sources. One being Newsweek<\/a> and the other is the Washington Monthly<\/a> both of which called Republicans hostage takers before the president’s little talk today.<\/p>\n I watched the president get increasingly irritated as the bomb tossing press basically called him a big pussy for capitulating to Republicans. It was almost as if they were trying to change his mind. But that couldn’t be true, could it?<\/p>\n In the meantime, Nancy Pelosi is living up to her reputation as an idiot who learned nothing in this last election. Obviously, she still doesn’t think all of those “Fire Pelosi” signs (coffee mugs, T-shirts, bobble heads, websites, etc….) were aimed at her. The Hill<\/a> writes;<\/p>\n In a post on Twitter, Pelosi said the GOP provisions in the tax proposal would add to the deficit and help the rich without creating jobs. The GOP provisions \u201chelp only wealthiest 3%, don’t create jobs & add tens of billions to deficit,\u201d the Pelosi tweet said.<\/p>\n The Speaker expanded on her criticism of the Republican proposals in a statement that notably withheld any commitment of support. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n I only wish that she was just as concerned about deficits when she rammed through all of that domestic spending last year. Of course, what she’s really worried about is the whole country is discovering what a great thing George Bush did when he cut taxes, and she’s afraid that we’ll all discover what a giant lie upon which the Democrat Party bases it’s entire philosophy.<\/p>\n And I guess now Nancy Pelosi is holding us hostage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"