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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLeon Panetta---Douchebag of the day
Leon--you're a fucking idiot douchebag if you think this is the same as 1995.Leon Panetta served in Washington with nine presidents, starting with Lyndon Johnson. He has been a member of Congress, Office of Management and Budget director, White House chief of staff, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of defense the last two under President Obama. He is a man who knows Washington and knows how to choose his words. So Panettas implicit rebuke of the presidents hands-off approach to the budget crisis at a breakfast Monday was striking.
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Then, to Obama. This president hes extremely bright, hes extremely able, hes somebody who I think certainly understands the issues, asks the right questions, and I think has the right instincts about what needs to be done for the country.
Next came the but without a name but with a clear message. You have to engage in the process. This is a town where its not enough to feel you have the right answers. Youve got to roll up your sleeves and youve got to really engage in the process .?.?. thats what governing is all about.
Bloombergs Al Hunt asked Panetta how Clinton would have handled the current situation differently. We were negotiating up to the last minute in the Oval Office before the 1995 shutdown, recounted Panetta, then Clintons chief of staff. Some of us were nervous that Bill Clinton was bending over backwards to try to see if he could get a deal.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-leon-panetta-rebukes-obamas-handling-of-shutdown/2013/10/14/d5252dc4-34f9-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html?hpid=z2
Autumn
(45,120 posts)Can we get a forum where we can vote on and bestow these prestigious awards?
DJ13
(23,671 posts)Is little more than a handmaiden for the 1%.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)every fucking weekend sez what now? Shaddap, Leon.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Honestly. Thank God the people actually being criticized aren't as thin-skinned as here on DU.
elleng
(131,630 posts)trumad
(41,692 posts)pa28
(6,145 posts)What a colossal asshole.
Cha
(298,334 posts)DOUCHEBAGS? Who caused the damn thing and then goes out with the KKK on Sunday to Protest what he(cruz)engineered?!
I don't think so.. you don't negotiate with Teaorrists. End of story. Fucking don't give them any credibility.
Panetta.. blah blah blabber blabber blabber.
thanks Trumad
cali
(114,904 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)to cut social security and medicare. Asshole, Democrat or not.
bemildred
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