At retreat, Obama goes on the offensive

At retreat, Obama goes on the offensive
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A fired-up Barack Obama ditched his TelePrompter to rally House Democrats and rip Republican opponents of his recovery package Thursday night – at one point openly mocking the GOP for failing to follow through on promises of bipartisanship.
In what was the most pointedly partisan speech of his young presidency, Obama rejected Republican arguments that massive spending in the $819 billion stimulus bill that passed the House should be replaced by a new round of massive tax cuts.

Pelosi introduced Porkulus with allowing no alternatives be consider with a child-like gloat of "We won."

Obama should have told Pelosi and Reid to allow GOP input to ensure Porkulus to go through. instead, with two years of the most politically polar congress since Tip O'Neill was speaker, he allowed Pelosi and Reid to play politics while he tried to sit above the fray.

Calling himself "post-partisan" especially with the second most partisan voting record in the 109th and 110th congresses was disingenuous at best and more aptly could be described as a bold faced lie.

Obama, Pelosi and Reid screwed the pooch on this. And no matter how he tries to spin it only the most partisan Democrats will see it as anything but what it is... typical partisan politics.

Every knew Pelosi and Reid are die hard partisans. Obama promised he was above that, and considering how he appeared to handle the DNC during the primaries it looked possible he could continue to do so as POTUS. But the more he scrambles and tries to incorrectly place blame on the GOP when the problem so clearly lies with the Democrat congressional "leaders" it becomes more obvious it was the Democrat party that handle Obama and not he other way around.

Fact check: 63% of the population do not support with Porkulus, it is not the GOP but the American people that don't want this bill to pass. As a matter of fact 50% believe it will harm, and not help the economy.

But the will of the people doesn't matter to Democrats... after all "they won." The people won't matter to them until the next election.