By my count today, I’ve seen not less than three to five pieces at various news outlets with the basic message of “Obama must get tough with Republicans.” Spoiler alert: It’s not going to fucking happen. This horse has been beaten to death since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. It’s simply not how he operates, and it’s not going to happen. Yes, there are an infinite amount of arguments why it ostensibly should or ought to happen, but it won’t. You’ve got the wrong guy. He doesn’t want to put the gloves on and take the fight to the Republicans, he wants to break bread with them and cut deals and calmly draw a handkerchief from his pocket to wipe the GOP spittle off his face while turning the other cheek.
So please – stop writing these banal pieces about how Obama needs to transform into the Incredible Hulk. The man has doubled down time and again on his pious brand of post-partisanship, and his handlers fancy him as some sort of genius chess player playing a game that the rest of us are too stupid to understand. He’s had an innumerate amount of opportunities to drive a true populist message against the Republicans, and he chooses not to, preferring instead to let the GOP set the message and tone and the terms of the eventual deal that he “reluctantly” cuts.
Thank you and good night.
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