WSJ's Karl Rove Tries To Spin President Obama's Spanking Of The GOP At Its Retreat

[TomCADem]

This just reminds me of Jon Stewart's imitation of a Fox News producer screaming "Cut the Feed!" Sadly, not enough people got a chance to see the actual event, and how Karl's Rove description of it is complete bullshit. As Jon Stewart said in reference to Obama responding to Republicans, "I'm dunking on you..."

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The President's GOP Outreach Comes Too Late
A photo-op is not the same as compromising on policy.
By KARL ROVE

Last Friday, President Obama met with House Republicans in Baltimore. He took questions, parried criticisms, and allowed all of it to be put on television.

Framed as an opportunity for the president to hear from the other side, Mr. Obama's real aim was to portray Republicans as obstructionist and boost his own public standing in the process.

Afterward, Gallup found that Mr. Obama's approval hit 51%, up from 47% after the State of the Union address two days earlier. But in winning that small victory, Mr. Obama also further poisoned his relationship with Republicans by repeatedly saying things that are demonstrably not true.

For example, when Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling asked if the president's new budget would, "like your old budget, triple the national debt" and increase "the cost of government to almost 25% of the economy," Mr. Obama denied it. But that's exactly what Mr. Obama proposed doing in his budget framework that Congress passed last April, according to both Congressional Budget Office and White House documents.

[opihimoimoi]

1. After Rove destroyed America with hold on W...why in the world should we listen to HIM?

[lpbk2713]

2. WSJ has no credibility AFAIC.

It lost it when it was bought out by Murdoch.
Now it is just another conservative soap box.

[classysassy]

3. They never go home

all of the presidents men and women,stay in washington after their fearless leaders leave office.There should be a law that all of the crooks have 24 hours to leave town.

[Berry Cool]

4. Well, you know, Obama was playing "street" basketball

and the Republicans were playing "fundamental" basketball...like the guys in that new all-white league that one fella is trying to form.

It just wasn't fair. Here they were, carefully dribbling and passing the ball around, and he kept forcing turnovers and slamming it in the basket. Even worse, they had so many people on their team, and his team was just him.

It must have been very hard for Porky Pig to watch.