Fifty-Second Dueling Post-Speech Analysis: Obama v. Boehner

President Obama is still playing on the Republicans' turf, buying into what former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls "the BIG LIE" (we know all about that) by Republicans that cutting spending amid an economic downturn will create jobs. IT WILL CREATE PAIN, AND LOTS OF IT. AND EXCUSE ME, MR. PRESIDENT, BUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE TO BLAME. As Reich pointed out, taking $2.7 trillion out of this weak economy while demanding ZERO sacrifice from the rich will cause tremendous hardship to ordinary Americans and slow economic recovery.

President Obama has conceded this BOGUS ARGUMENT, THIS LIE to the Republicans, he framed the argument in a Republican way as the astute Joan Walsh remarked, nailing that RATBASTARD John Boehner: "I want to comment about the utter MENDACITY of John Boehner, this is BAD FAITH, going full-tilt TEA PARTY CRAZY!" Joan noted that the President and Boehner had come to within $400 billion in a $4 trillion package before Boehner caved to the Tea Party and walked out on the talks.

 But I must say, the disrespect that was shown to the President, to the office, the trappings of the presidency by the Republican Speaker of the House was utterly appalling. Not only did Boehner LIE and LIE and LIE, but he did it with such contempt for the TRUTH, literally pulling a Rush Limbaugh, whom he called before his speech to get his marching orders. Boehner has this really disgusting habit of mimicking/mocking his opponents' EXACT LANGUAGE and throwing it back in their face. It's JUVENILE AND CLASSLESS.

A real political leader and master of rhetoric would have used his own words to neutralize his or her opponent and take them down. Last Friday, when the President had his outburst of frustration, he outlined all the TERRIBLE CONCESSIONS (I'M SORRY, BUT HE'S TOO FUCKING TRIGGER HAPPY) he made to the Republicans. President Obama said in one of his more memorable rhetorical flourishes, that Republicans had left him standing "at the altar" TWICE, and can't "take YES for an answer."

Tonight, in his despicable LIE-infested attack on the President, that tobacco-smoking DRUNK behaved like a petulant child: "no you can't, no you can't, no you can't, no you can't ..." when he used the President's EXACT words to throw them back at him — "The President can't take YES for an answer" — then proceeded to LIE and LIE and LIE and LIE:

LIE — The DRACONIAN "Cut, Cap and Balance" Bill passed the House of Representatives last week, not as Boehner claimed on a "bipartisan" basis but on a party-line vote with only FIVE Democratic votes;

LIE — "There is no stalemate in Congress." Even his Tea Party freshman caucus member Joe Walsh contradicted that;

LIE — "If the President signs [the new Boehner plan] the crisis atmosphere he has created will simply disappear." THE CRISIS "ATMOSPHERE" was created by EXTREMIST REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE WHO REFUSED TO ACCEPT HISTORIC AND, LET'S FACE IT, FROM A LIBERAL'S PERSPECTIVE (WHICH IS NOT OUR TRIANGULATING CLINTONIAN PRESIDENT'S), DESPICABLE CUTS;

LIE — Harry Reid's alternative is unacceptable because it contains "phony accounting and Washington gimmicks" — THE SAME ACCOUNTING GIMMICKS EMPLOYED BY THE RYAN BUDGET WHICH BOEHNER PROMOTED.

And so it went. As Joan said, the MENDACITY of John Boehner was beyond belief; his disrespect for the President and the presidency, simply jaw-dropping.

The President of the United States asked the PEOPLE to let their representatives in Congress know they want this impasse ended and the issue resolved. The people CRASHED the Congressional websites and servers, including John Boehner's.

Go easy on the booze, you RATBASTARD.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "The American people should not be collateral damage to the political warfare in Washington." ~ President Obama.