GOP LIE EXPOSED BY SEN. WICKER AND NICOLE WALLACE

This morning on #Morning Joe (MSNBC) was as good as it gets; Joe wasn’t there interrupting everyone so they got to say what they were thinking. That is not to say I agree with what they were saying it is just that they were able to say it. Guest #Sen. Rodgers Wicker of Mississippi and political pundit #Nicole Wallace were falling all over each other condemning #President Obama on the anniversary of the $800-billion dollar stimulus. In the sense that what they were saying is so counter to the facts, it was sad. The stimulus is a failure and Obamacare is a failure. There were 1.6 million jobs added per years and several times the Congressional Budget Office has offered evidence that Obamacare is working even better than expect. The sad truth is that for me, as a liberal, neither program went far enough.

It was at this point that Nicole Wallace was caught up in her lie. She said something like, the Republicans did not have an input; her proof is that the stimulus package received only three Republican votes; therefore it was not bipartisan, therefore it is not good. The theme between these two political operatives was based on that implied lie; any Obama legislation is not bipartisan therefore not good; therefore, Obama is a failed president because he did not work with Republicans. Some one on the show shattered their argument with one simple statement; the truth is that the Republican Party, by fiat decided to vote against everything; not just the stimulus, not just the Affordable Care Act, not just immigration, not just jobs bill, not just food stamp, but everything! They had the objective to bring the country to its knees by obstructionism. They did not work with Obama, not the other way around.

I have thought long and hard about the bigger question, why they were doing this. My conclusion is that they wanted to prevent Democratic Obama from having a successful presidency. If they could make things bad enough, the people would elect even a Republican. As the president’s domestic agenda and foreign policy successes started to pile up, Republicans became more and more aggressive in their objection; the more he succeeded the more they objected. The more success the more they tried to create false scandals; Benghazi, IRS, Obamacare, etc. I posted this belief in a blog on Feb. 3, 2014 on this web page, Republicans Hate Obama’s Successes. However, it was never made clearer than it was this AM by Sen. Rodger Wickers and Nicole Wallace. I thank them for forcefully making my point.  

URL: firetreepub.blogspot.com Comments Invited and not moderated