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Folks here are well aware by now that I am not one to go ZOMG OBAMA IS SO OSSUM very often. I voted for him twice, but never once fooled myself into thinking the panacea for all that ails us had been elected, and I have considered it my sworn duty as a citizen to kick him in the ass when circumstances warrant it.
That being said, President Obama has taken a hail of shit for his hands-off approach to Congress over the last five years. He needs to glad-hand, he needs to press the flesh, he needs to work the room, lather rinse repeat.
Fuck that. I see the method of the man in this latest eruption more clearly than ever. To say he should be more like Lyndon Johnson, who was famous for his ability to work members of Congress, is to have a catastrophically Derpy understanding of history, in that you dare to compare the Congress members of Johnson's day to the goddam meth-addled barn swallows we endure now. No and no and no.
Mr. Obama's bargaining tactics during this crisis, in short:
Oct. 1: No. Fuck you.
Oct. 3: No. Fuck you.
Oct. 6: No. Fuck you.
Oct. 10: No. Fuck you.
Oct. 12: No. Fuck you.
Oct. 14: No. Fuck you.
Oct. 16: Please proceed.
Never interfere with a perfectly good train wreck.
Kudos, Mr. President. I'll be all over your ass tomorrow, but for tonight, I am glowing with pride over those two votes I gave you. Very well done, sir.
