Criticizing one of the President's policy positons does not make one a "POTUS hater" ....

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"As if that weren't bad enough, these disingenuous attempts to frame the behavior as "criticism" is an insult to anyone watching who has a lick of sense. "

...some can't admit: Criticizing the President on "policy positons" doesn't extend to spinning his positions and then railing against him when the spin turns out to be wrong.

Think about it. For more than a year, there have been any number of articles and commentary about the chained CPI. Yes it sucked, and yes it was included in the President's budget as a carrot to appease Republicans in negotiating tax increases on the rich.

One can scream that it shouldn't have been included, but one cannot ignore the reason it was. Spinning it as something the President wanted is absurd.

Then there is the question: Why didn't he offer up defense cuts? It's as if the person asking the question is oblivious to the point of the offer. Defense cuts are not a carrot to appease Republicans.

Whenever anyone pointed out that Republicans were never going to take him up on the offer, the comeback was that he was playing with people's lives.

Now that the offer is no longer being made, the criticism of the "policy" position remains vicious and stuck in spin, again ignoring the realities since the offer was made: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024540032

It's like the sequestration, these battles aren't pretty because Republicans are despicable. It was a long ugly road to get to the two bills (signed into law in December and January) that ended that policy.