You were warned, and we told you so.
The title to this Hill article is “Frustration with Obama Builds” – which is highly ironic; or, at least the verb is. The article itself discusses the President’s apparent public indifference towards getting involved with anything resembling negotiations over the ongoing budget problems; what makes it interesting is that Democrats (specifically, Sen. Kay Hagan of NC) are apparently now willing to go on the record to complain about Obama’s passivity. What’s especially grating apparently is that the President’s planning to go to Latin America for a few days, starting tomorrow: it’s always grating when somebody goes on vacation just as the rest of the office has to start up an emergency, overtime-generating, critical rush project.
But here is the thing: why are Democrats surprised that this is happening? We knew that the President was disinterested in governance. We’ve known this for years. Continue reading Democrats shocked, shocked! to discover Obama is passive.