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Obama's Paradox Problem

September 1st, 2011 3:02 pm E. J. Dionne

WASHINGTON — Call it the Party-of-Government Paradox: If the nation’s capital looks dysfunctional, it will come back to hurt President Obama and the Democrats, even if the Republicans are primarily responsible for the dysfunction.

Then there is the Bipartisanship Paradox: No matter how far the president bends over backward to appeal to or appease the Republicans — no matter how nice, conciliatory, friendly or reasonable he tries to be — voters will judge him according to the results. And the evidence since 2009 is that accommodation won’t get Obama much anyway.

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  • MegR

    If you can name one accomplishment of Obama’s you can keep beating the same tired drum. But since Obama has, in nearly three years, failed to produce a budget (until last month) and continued to spend recklessly you really need to stop blaming the minority GOP. This attack mantra from the left (calling republicans racist and terrorists) that you continue to spew is ignorant and irresponsible. The GOP presented three budget plans this year. The democrats, who had the house and senate, until Nov 2011 never put a budget together. So for you to continue to lie and attack on behalf of your president is sick. You are a disgrace to freedom and people who work hard, pay their mortages and love their families.

  • bailtown

    Gee, I can’t think of a single thing the President has accomplished. Other than:

    1) You can’t be thrown off your insurance anymore because you changed jobs or got sick. And you can’t be denied insurance because you have been sick.
    2) Repeal of DADT
    3) Reversing the Reagan-Clinton deregulatory direction with the passage of Dodd-Frank
    4) Re-setting our arms control treaty with the Russians
    5) Preventing a Great Depression 2.0 with the Stimulus Package
    6) Preventing genocide in Libya without landing U.S. boots in another Middle Eastern conflict
    7) Implementing the toughest standards yet for fuel economy in America
    8) Rescuing and revitalizing America’s auto industry

    Other than that, I can’t think of anything. Oh, except:

    9) Killing Osama bin Laden, which big tough George Bush couldn’t do