This, coming from the woman who’s earned the nickname “K Street Whore.”
CNN: President Obama is taking heat from a Senate Democrat over how he dealt with the issue of health care in his first State of the Union speech.
“I think the president should have been more clear about a way forward on health care last night,” Sen. Mary Landrieu told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday. “I’m hoping in the next week or two he will be, because that’s what it’s going to take if it’s at all possible to get this done.”
“Mailing in general suggestions, sending them over the transom is not necessarily going to work,” the Louisiana Democrat added.
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“As far as I know, the president thought it was a good idea to have three different bills debated,” she said.
“No wonder people got confused. So it’s not completely our fault that that was the plan.”
Landrieu also said she felt the president unfairly blamed the Senate during his speech for holding up a series of initiatives that had already cleared the House.“I thought he was pointing his finger at the Senate a lot throughout the speech last night … no I do not think its fair,” she said. “Moderate Senate Democrats, who give the Senate the 60 votes, come from states that have to appreciate a broad range of ideas and since the president ran on a bipartisan, change, working with Republicans, [he] doesn’t do a great service to then say everything the House passes without any Republican votes is something the Senate should just take.”
She does have a point though. I think they all expected Obama would be some kind of great leader. He’s more like an incompetent shephard – letting the sheep roam around with no direction, only to be surprised when he’s unable to round them all up. Not that this should come as a surprise from the guy who voted present.
Via memeorandum
You know, I’m really all done hearing people say how brilliant Barack Obama is. If he were brilliant, we would have seen his college transcripts by now. But, here’s the thing. I will never forget watching the Obama infomercial the week before the elections in 2008. Afterwards, Obama was at a rally where former President Clinton was introducing him. Clinton said that when the economy collapsed, Obama came to him, to Hillary, and to economic experts and said, “Tell me what to do, and I’ll sell it.” There is only one occupation for which Obama is qualified….telemarketer. He has surrounded himself with the wrong people, and he is courting disaster.
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He’s about as brilliant as one of those new light bulbs they’re trying to sell us. Dim. And based on the latest polls, he’s not even good at telemarketing.
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