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April 11, 2011
White House Played Pure Politics With Budget Deal: Had Plans To Purposefully Inconvenience And Inflict As Much Pain On The American Public As Possible
Topics: Political News and commentariesOver at the American Spectator we learn that according to White House sources, in the weeks leading up to last week's push for a budget deal, the President cynically and disgustingly approved plans that had the White House and federal agencies looking at every federal government resource that entailed public interaction, and whether it could be shut down during a closure of the government -- even if under normal government closures those resources would have or could have remained open -- for the sole reason of inflicting as much inconvenience and pain on the American public and lock them into supporting the Administration's perspective on the budget fight. In other words, the president and his team were willing to play dirty politics to score cheap political points:
"The goal was to inflict as much inconvenience and pain on the American public and lock them into supporting the Administration's perspective on the budget fight," says a White House source. "It was our nuclear option, but we saw how a government shutdown under Gingrich just destroyed Republican standing with the public, and we felt we could achieve that kind of damage and more, even if we really didn't have to."Read more.
A clever political maneuver? Perhaps. Actions of a leader charged with doing what's best for the country and the people that elected him to office? Of course not; but surely no one other than a partisan liberal Democrat would ever be so naive and misinformed as to claim that Barack Obama has exhibited qualities of leadership since he's been in office or that he ever made a decision that wasn't purely politically motivated.
Posted by Richard at April 11, 2011 7:23 AM
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