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So the Rude Pundit was a-listenin' to the NPR yesterday morning because he's smart like that. And he heard DC Grand Dame Cokie Roberts pontificate on the state of President Obama on the day before tonight's importantest speech ever, the State O' the Union. The President's presidency is in trouble, Roberts said. "An ABC/Washington Post poll yesterday, only 37 percent of the respondents said they had confidence in the president to make the right decisions for the country. Now, that's very low. It's better than either the Democrats in Congress at 27 percent or the Republicans at 19 percent. But he's the decider, as George W. Bush used to say, so it's a rough number for him," she explained.
And she gave us the ol' historical background, about how once upon a time in the distant past, 72% of people thought Obama cared about them, but now less than half do. Roberts threw down some knowledge: "[A]ll those numbers are significant because it means it makes it hard to convince people in Congress to go along with you if the American people don't seem to be going along with you, which is part of the reason why the president is taking about executive action - using his pen and his phone and going around the Congress."
As with so much of the pre-State of the Union backseat driving going on in this heady hours leading up to the big moment, the Rude Pundit thought, "Huh. Seems to be leaving out a bit of context here." Because, really, there's a big fucking, well, elephant in the room here: The President has faced what is, factually, by the numbers, unprecedented obstructionism by Republicans to not just his nominees to the judiciary and executive branch, but in his legislative agenda, including the hundreds of bills passed by the House when it was held by Democrats. It needs to be said again and again: We never got to see what an Obama presidency would be like because Republicans decided that there wouldn't be an Obama presidency.
One great experiment of the Obama administration, so far, was to attempt to reel the imperial presidency back in (yeah, we're leaving surveillance off the table here). It was to try to get Congress to do its fucking job. But Republicans changed the rules of the game on Obama. If they had been playing baseball, they'd have said, "Okay, we demand four outs, five strikes, and no foul balls, just for us." And Obama would have said, "Sure. Now can we play?" And they would have said, "And you have to play without shoes and gloves." And Obama would have said, "Sure. Can we start the game?" And they would have said, "And each of us gets to fuck your wife in the ass on the pitcher's mound while you watch." And when Obama said, "No, that's bullshit," they'd've said, "Why don't you want to play baseball?"
The shame is that Obama didn't say, early in his first term, "Fuck off. I'm heading to the batting cages." Now that he's announced he's finally going to use executive authority more broadly, and he's used it less than any president in the last century, the GOP is whining that Obama is doing something unconstitutional. These would be the same Republicans who lapped up President Bush's executive orders and signing statements like jizz-gobblers at a jack-off-a-thon.
Everyone is offering their useless suggestions for "What the President Should Say Tonight." So let the Rude Pundit play Fantasy SOTU. What Obama oughta say to the United States is "Vote these Republican motherfuckers out of here. They have hurt the nation and will continue to do so. You know the deal. You reelected me to get shit done. That ain't gonna happen until these assholes who keep hurting the poor and hungry are fuckin' gone. It's up to you, America. 2014 could be the year you make this a sane country again. You gotta put a hurt on the GOP. Let's hurt them until Ted Cruz is begging to kiss my black ass."
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/01/if-youre-not-blaming-gop-for-crappy.html
SunSeeker
(51,520 posts)monmouth3
(3,871 posts)HangOnKids
(4,291 posts)" These would be the same Republicans who lapped up President Bush's executive orders and signing statements like jizz-gobblers at a jack-off-a-thon."
POETRY.
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)corkhead
(6,119 posts)I cannot stand Kochy Roberts.
riqster
(13,986 posts)go west young man
(4,856 posts)Love the Rude Pundit. If only Obama had the spine and depth to say that last paragraph to the American people. Everyone knows it's true. If only he would say it. Then we can start from a realistic perspective as a nation. They're dying off anyway, as it goes right now they are just hanging onto our pants leg and need to be kicked off. That final paragraph would do the trick.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)You do realize that the Rude One wrote that last paragraph BECAUSE he is playing Fantasy SOTU and not required to govern a nation ... Right?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)in ways appropriate to the occasion.
The problem is, conservapukes own the damn media. And too many people have lost the ability to think critically--or never developed it.
Precious few hear what he actually says. What little of his words and actions actually make it through the bought and pwned media is *coff*analyzed*coff* with an obligation to be negative and compared to reich wing corpofascists through the lens of false equivalency.
Even NPR......
It's a sad sad situation. Tragic, really. And infuriating.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)people think the President being vulgar and stomping up and down will accomplish anything.
But I guess for some, the President resides in some rarified space that belies the every day life's experience of everyone beyond elementary school.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Yeah.....
It's the frustration, too.
The pukes cheat and lie, destroy good policy, and there are still too many Americans who believe them.
My inner fed-up little kid who hates liars and doesn't understand diplomacy (uh, my outer grown-up doesn't understand it too well either) , and wants some immediate gratification would really enjoy some well-deserved ass kicking.
Aldo Leopold
(685 posts)but I did, coincidentally, just happen to be in a car playing NPR when Cokie was on yesterday. I couldn't fucking believe the bullshit she was spewing. No critical assessment of the "facts" as she presented them whatsoever.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)That our President will take a page out of the Rude Pundit's play book.
It's time to kick some GOP ass.
toby jo
(1,269 posts)Berlum
(7,044 posts)Repubbies throw tantrums for years to block every American initiative that comes forward, then turn around and whine that Obama can't get anything done. Cokie (R) just pathetically prattles the Republicon party line. What a disappointment she is.
calimary
(81,126 posts)Dear God but I LOVE the Rude Pundit!!! He sure says what I'M thinking!!!!!
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Lol!
I'm the secret Mrs. Pundit, you know.......
BumRushDaShow
(128,519 posts)WinstonSmith4740
(3,055 posts)What Obama needs is Luther. He even told them so when he met them. I totally agree with RP...Obama needs to tell these guys to go fuck themselves.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Absolutely outrageous. Insulting! Crazy! I'm done with it! Done!
It makes no sense to come on a Democratic Party site and witness Democrats throwing other Democrats under the bus. The shameful, hateful, rude and condescending remarks day after day after day.
I'm done with it.
If Democrats hate this president so much that they don't understand who is responsible for this sad state of affairs, then we all deserve everything we get.
Progressive dog
(6,899 posts)they take democrat out of DU, I'll hang around. Remember, the blame Obama faction lost the election yet again, but they didn't give up.
Duval
(4,280 posts)ought to say to the US!! And just love the last sentence! Thanks, meegbear!
librechik
(30,674 posts)kentuck
(111,053 posts)"... the Rude Pundit thought, "Huh. Seems to be leaving out a bit of context here." Because, really, there's a big fucking, well, elephant in the room here: The President has faced what is, factually, by the numbers, unprecedented obstructionism by Republicans to not just his nominees to the judiciary and executive branch, but in his legislative agenda, including the hundreds of bills passed by the House when it was held by Democrats. It needs to be said again and again:..."
Little_Wing
(417 posts)A day without the Pundit is like a day without sunshine. Reading him cleans out the arteries and allows me to proceed with my day without slashing my wrists...
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)"Why don't you want to play baseball?"
Cha
(296,874 posts)when she talked about the bullshit poll?