You know President Obama is getting frustrated when he's forced
to fall back on tired old
campaign lines to try and rally support for the stimulus
package (yes, even "Fired up? Ready to go" made a comeback).
Speaking at a Democratic retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia Obama
said, "I welcome this debate, but we are not going to get relief
by turning back to the same policies that for the last eight
years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a
tailspin."
"The American people are watching," he continued. "They didn't
send us here to get bogged down with the same old delays, the
same old distractions, the same talking points, the same cable
chatter. I mean, aren't y'all tired of that stuff? They didn't
vote for the false theories of the past and they didn't vote for
phoney arguments and petty politics."
Then he said, mockingly, "What do you think a stimulus is? It’s
spending — that's the whole point! Seriously.”
So in other words, Obama welcomes a bipartisan debate, but only
if Republicans reject their own policies in favor of his spending
priorities, only if that debate doesn't delay passage of the bill
that he wants, and as long as cable news shows don't scrutinize
what is actually in the legislation he's proposing.
