Tailor-made tyranny for the masses

At the same presser in which Obama announced Uncle Joe's gun control task force, the President was also asked about a tax deal and if we're likely to go over the cliff. His answer was an interwoven concoction of arrogance, victimization and shamelessness...you know, pretty much what we've become accustom to with this statist in the White House...

NationalJournal: President Obama on Wednesday said he was puzzled why Republicans have yet to embrace the deficit-reduction plan he has put forward, and he criticized the House Speaker John Boehner's "Plan B" to reduce the deficit.

“There’s got to be, I think, a recognition on the part of my Republican friends that, you know—take the deal,” Obama said. “They will be able to claim that they have worked with me over the last two years to reduce the deficit, more than any other deficit-reduction package.”

“That's a significant achievement for them,” he said.

Yeah, just take the deal and tear down everything they know about both principle and truth, namely that this President hasn't done a damn thing in reducing the deficit! Obama can get away with that, Republicans won't be able to...but just listen to the 'poor me' victimization...



Obama suggested that Republicans may just be refusing to agree on a deal because they want to score political points and continue to oppose him in his second term. “I don't know how much of that just has to do with, you know, it is very hard for them to say yes to me,” he said.

Boehner has “conceded that income-tax rates should go up,” Obama added. He and the speaker are separated by perhaps “a few hundred billion dollars,” he said.

And that right there is the endgame that Obama has been after from the beginning with Boehner: the confession that tax cuts have never worked, so tax hikes must be the answer...



But Obama said he could not accept a deal that would raise taxes only on millionaires. The Plan B that Boehner has proposed would not make significant spending cuts, would raise taxes on working families, and would not extend unemployment insurance, the president said.

“I'm going to reach out to all the leaders involved over the next couple of days and find out what is it that's holding this thing up,” Obama said. “It may be that if we provide more information, or there’s greater specificity, or if we’ve worked through some of their concerns, that we can get some movement.”

Then Obama doesn't bat an eye as he piles on the shameless exploitation of tragedy as the reasons 'why' Republicans should cave on taxes, and ultimately, 'why' everyone must concede to his will...

OBAMA: They understand that they’re not going to get 100 percent of what they want. And for some reason, that message has not yet taken up on Capitol Hill. And when you think about what we’ve gone through over the last couple of months — a devastating hurricane, and now one of the worst tragedies in our memory, the country deserves folks to be willing to compromise on behalf of the greater good and not tangle themselves up in a whole bunch of ideological positions that don’t make much sense. So I remain, not only open to conversations, but I remain eager to get something done. I’d like to get it done before Christmas. There’s been a lot of posturing up on Capitol Hill instead of just going ahead and getting stuff done. We’ve been wasting a lot of time. It is the right thing to do. I’m prepared to get it done, but they’re going to have to go ahead and make — make some adjustments.

Never let a crisis go to waste. Sounds like the return of Democrat civility, as well. All tailor-made tyranny for the masses to gobble up...