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Home Front: Politix
Chris Matthews makes sense (really)
2014-11-06
Matthews goes off on Obama's inability to compromise:
What bothered me about him [today] he keeps talking about common ground. Damn it, there's very little common ground between left and right, but what there is is compromise. You do something for me on minimum wage, I'll do something for you in corporate tax reform. You give me something on corporate tax reform and I'll get rid of some of the loopholes or I'll do something on trade for you. He never talks about trading and compromising, he always talks about common ground. Well, damn it, you can not run a government on common ground.

He misses the main point of politics which is to be a politician and to trade. Okay, you want this? You want to take care of people who have been here illegally for 20, 30 years? Here's what I want. No more illegal hiring, and that's all in the Senate bill. But he won't sell the compromise. There's something in this guy that just plays to his constituency and acts like there is no other room out there. And that's going to be a collision at the end of this year like you have never seen. I do believe it will be like waving a red flag in front of the bull. I think Mitch McConnell is headed for a fight with the president.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  Right you are OldSpook.
Posted by: Sleang Cravique4093   2014-11-06 19:40  

#5  From working in ciphers, I can tell you any string of gibberish will have words and phrases appear, at random.
It means nothing.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-11-06 19:15  

#4  Obama doenst compromise. Because throughout his entire likfe if little Barry didn't get what he wanted, all he had to do was stomp his feet and throw a tantrum, and his betters would give him what he wanted.

College? Sure, affirmative action and (possibly) register you as a foreign student to get more assistance and slack in class.

Professorship? Sure, we'll let you be the editor, just don't write anything.

Illinois political job? Sure, work with these former terrorists - they will show you how to organize mobs and rig votes.

Election? Sure, we'll get you in the Illinois legislature by pushing out someone to clear the way. Just don't do anything controversial - vote "present" to stay away from hard decisions.

US Senate? No problem, we'll leak all kinds of dirt on your opponent from sealed court records from his divorce with a famous actress.

Presidency? Press will do what we tell them to, never call you out, and on top of that they will savage the Republicans for you, so you can run a "positive" campaign, leave all the nasty negatives to us. Run on vapor, "Hope and Change". Dont do anything in office other than stick to progressive things.

Posted by: OldSpook   2014-11-06 14:57  

#3  Makes sense from the Dems point of view because the republicans are pretty bad horse traders.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2014-11-06 14:54  

#2  Better late than never?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-11-06 13:29  

#1  Of course the irony here is that Chrissie gets the tingle and can't figure out the connection between blind submission to "the one" and the arrogant narcissism he critiques here.

Anyone with half a brain knew 6 years ago what Zero was like. You asked for it Chrissie, you got it.
Posted by: AlanC   2014-11-06 09:11  

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