THE BOGUS NARRATIVE THAT WILL ONLY GET MORE UBIQUITOUS…. | The Washington Monthly
Let me say for the umpteenth time. Having worked on the Obama campaign and gone door to door for 3 months, the agenda Obama ran on is very similar to the one he has pursued. Folks who say he has pursued a more liberal agenda since taking office are one of 2 things: liars or stupid.
The major difference, that I see, in campaign rhetoric and reality is Obama’s embrace of Busheney expansion of executive power. Really no surprise there - people in power want to keep the power they inherit.
The South Carolinian added that the White House’s agenda has been the “most liberal agenda of modern times.”
To prove his point, Graham noted that the administration has prepared to try terrorists in criminal courts on American soil. Of course, the Bush/Cheney administration did the exact same thing, without complaint from Republicans like Graham, but it’s “tone-deaf” liberalism now because, well, Graham says so. He added that the president is “certainly tone deaf on the economy,” though he didn’t say why.
It’s an absolute, guaranteed, mortal lock that if Republicans make huge gains in the midterms, as seems likely, Graham’s rhetoric will be the accepted conventional wisdom, if it isn’t already. Pundits, politicians, and the establishment in general will simply accept as fact that Dems would have fared far better if only they hadn’t governed “from the left.” Obama, we’ll hear, has no choice but to go “to the middle.”
And every time this nonsense is repeated, an angel will lose its wings.