In a segment titled “Six-month stalemate” Monday, MSNBC host Chuck Todd took several minutes of “The Daily Rundown” to spotlight the ways in which the Obama administration has tried — and failed — to make itself look strong and Congress look bad.
“White House advisers desperate to turn weakness into a strength and to make Congress look like the impediment tried to declare 2014 as a year of action,” Todd explained. “But letâs be realistic. There hasnât been much.”
The MSNBC host took a shot at President Obama specifically, stating that he set his bar for success “as low as he possibly could.”
“In his State of the Union address there was no mention of big things, like entitlement reform, no lofty plans for deficit reduction, tax reform, no big challenge of his own party or challenge to the other party,” Todd detailed. “Instead, it was a set of very scaled down ambitions.”
He then communicated Obama’s utter failure at achieving even these meager goals despite the enthusiasm of his address in January.
“The president has largely failed to meet even those modest goals, whether it was raising the minimum wage, signing new trade agreements, getting an immigration reform deal done,” continued Todd. “And while there hasnât been much achievement on the presidentâs planned goals, there have also been a series of unplanned setbacks, especially abroad, from an escalating civil war in Syria, to the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, a new wave of sectarian violence in Iraq, all eroding confidence in the presidentâs leadership on foreign policy.”
He also focused on the “management problems” of the White House that scandals have exposed throughout Obama’s presidency. Todd pointed specifically to the trouble within the Department of Veterans Affairs and the secrets laid bare by Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks.
Watch the clip below, via Washington Free Beacon.
