“What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008,” President Obama told a room full of Democrat donors wealthy enough to afford the $16,000 price of admission last night in New York City. “I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them,” Obama continued, “As a consequence, we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government.”
Yes, if only Rush Limbaugh didn’t exist, then the American people would have no reason to be cynical about the federal government and Obama could happily expand its scope and power as far and wide as he wished. Never mind that Obama chose not to mention the Associated Press report yesterday that Obama’s Justice Department secretly seized two months worth of personal, work, and cell phone records from AP reporters who cover the CIA. White House spokesman Jay Carney quickly claimed that “We have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the AP.” But after Carney’s repeated false statements about the Obama administration’s Benghazi talking points, why should anybody believe him?
