{"id":16188,"date":"2010-12-13T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16188"},"modified":"2010-12-13T05:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T11:18:03","slug":"clowns-to-the-left-of-me-jokers-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16188","title":{"rendered":"Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.<\/p><\/div>\n

Co-President<\/a> Barack Obama just can’t get a break.<\/p>\n

Between the Media, for whom Barry O. was their precious leg-tingling darling…<\/p>\n

Leftist TV talking heads such as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow<\/a> and the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel have excoriated Obama for what they see as political perfidy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and his liberal peeps, his compromise has put him between a political rock and a hard place.<\/p>\n

Given their overwrought reaction to President Obama’s tax deal, you’d think Democrats had no reason to compromise with the opposition. Have they already forgotten last month’s election?<\/p>\n

Democrats have lashed out at Obama for “compromising ” with the Republicans on a tax bill. But all in all, agreeing to an extension of current tax rates for an extension of jobless benefits seems like a pretty fair deal.<\/p>\n

Yet the reaction has been brutal.<\/p>\n

After House Democrats voted Thursday to oppose Obama’s tax deal with the GOP, Virginia Democrat James Moran told the Hill: “This is a lack of leadership on the part of Obama. I don’t know where the f*** Obama is on this or anything else. They’re AWOL.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and then he has to come home to this at the end of the day:<\/p>\n

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I don’t think Barry’s having any fun…failing so spectacularly at presidenting.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas (or whatever it is that you celebrate) Mr. Co-President, and a Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Co-President Barack Obama just can’t get a break. Between the Media, for whom Barry O. was their precious leg-tingling darling… Leftist TV talking heads such as MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow and the Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel have excoriated Obama for what they see as political perfidy. …and his liberal peeps, his compromise has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16188"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16223,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions\/16223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}