All together now: "That's because Obama's a conservative!"

[Karmadillo]

http://www.correntewire.com/all_together_now_thats_because_obamas_conservative#more

Thu, 12/02/2010 - 11:06am — lambert

Young Ezra:

Annoyed congressional staffers and baffled strategists rattle the list of concessions the White House has unilaterally made to Republicans from memory. There were the $300 billion in tax cuts, of course. The non-security discretionary spending freeze, a longtime Republican demand that the Obama administration simply announced during the 2010 State of the Union (Republicans responded by demanding discretionary spending cuts back to 2008 levels). During the climate-change debate, the administration gave away an expansion of offshore drilling, loan guarantees for nuclear power plants and delay of EPA regulations until 2011 -- all Republican demands that Lindsey Graham, John Kerry and Joe Lieberman were hoping to trade for GOP support. "Obama had served the dessert before the children even promised to eat their spinach," reported Ryan Lizza. "Graham was the only Republican negotiating on the climate bill, and now he had virtually nothing left to take to his Republican colleagues." And most recently, there's the two-year freeze in federal pay.

Why on earth are they baffled? At some point, the best test of intention is outcome. As Aristotle says: "We are what we repeatedly do."

We get conservative outcomes from Obama because that's what he is: A conservative.

[BzaDem]

1. If you think Obama's a conservative, you are in for a huge wake-up call when the next President gets

inaugurated.

[UrbScotty]

2. Conservatives rarely get 81% support among liberal Democrats

while getting such low figures among those who aren't liberal Democrats.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124922/Presidential-Approval-Center.aspx

[Karmadillo]

3. Aristotle revised: "We are NOT what we repeatedly do. We are our poll numbers."

nt

[VMI Dem]

4. I would say center-right. Is that a conservative?

:shrug: