If President Barack Obama is trying to piss off Republicans in Congress before his second term truly gets underway, he’s off to a great start.
Just days before his second inauguration, in which Obama openly slapped Republicans in the face by giving one of the most partisan inauguration speeches in history on what was supposed to be a day of bipartisanship, President Obama condescendingly slammed Republicans behind their back in an interview with The New Republic.
In the interview, our celebrity-in-chief decided to haze over his shortcomings in policy during part of the interview and instead focus on bashing Republicans.
“If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it,” President Obama said. “I think the difference is just that the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word. And I think at least leaders like myself – and I include Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in this – are willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done.”
Nowhere in the interview did he specifically mention by name his bedfellow networks, CNN and MSNBC or their liberal hosts. He didn’t care to criticize how the aforementioned news stations demean his Republican counterparts and praise him on a regular basis.
Instead, Obama went after Republicans for sticking to their beliefs and complimented the liberal media for believing in whatever he believes in.
“The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they’re really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies,” Obama said, as if liberals in Congress don’t vote the way their constituency dictates and Republican members don’t care about anybody but themselves.
Obama says he wants to work with Republicans to heal the economy, pass gun
safety measures and find a way to help illegal immigrants stay in America but that Republicans’ are unwilling to “compromise” and that is what is slowing the political process down.
Well, if the President is trying to get Republicans in Congress to cave into his will on more issues, he sure has a funny way of going about it.
