In "Obama chides Republicans" by James R. Carroll, Courier-Journal
Gearing up for negotiations with Congress over his proposed budget, President Barack Obama chided Republican lawmakers yesterday for opposing his initiatives without offering alternatives.
"I do think that the Republican Party right now hasn't sort of figured out what it's for," Obama said in a White House interview with The Courier-Journal and reporters from five other newspapers.
"And so, as a proxy, they've just decided 'we're going to be against whatever the other side is for.' That's not what's needed in an economic crisis."
He added that "you could play that game maybe in the early '90s, when basically we were pretty prosperous. Right now, everybody's got to pull together."
Well, Repugs? We're waiting for your...ahem..."ideas".......(crickets)
SECOND:
In "Socialism, Fascism, Communism: Obama Attacked With Wave Of 'Isms'" by Jason Linkins, Huffington Post
Media Matters has documented the way various media figures and partisan critics, confronted by the White House's attempts to do the things they were voted into office to do, have resorted to breaking out all of the meanest and most spectacularly melodramatic "-isms"
they can muster.
Like FASCISM and SOCIALISM and COLLECTIVISM!
And they even facilitate moronic combinations of "-isms" that don't make any sense, like "Communist McCarthyists."
I think that people could get a lot more creative, frankly.
Why not drop an old-school "Bolshevism" into the mix?
Or throw in a "racism?"
Behind closed doors, I know a lot of Obama's opponents accuse him of autotheism.
So why not go ROGUE with this stuff, and accuse Obama of siderism, or resistentialism!
Don't you think that Geithner's bailout plan shows a naive sense of meliorism?
Or am I just indulging in too much fatalism?
Anyway, as with most of the people gravely intoning about Obama in this video, the operative "-ism" is, as always, solipsism.
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