Looking for a Voice
2015-03-24 - by
With the Irish Prime Minister sitting beside him, Obama said Republicans are against education. Infrastructure. Research. The things needed to create jobs. National defense. And the middle class.
Then having thrown down the gauntlet, and concisely summed up how he felt about the Republican budget, the President rolled out the welcome mat for the Prime Minister.
Next I turned to a stack of newspaper clippings about Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker – looking for an answer to Obama.
Walker was criticizing unions.
Cruz was criticizing Obama’s deal with Iran.
Paul was talking about criminal justice reform.
And Bush was saying it’s the President’s job to reweave civility into political discourse.
Answering Obama would have been as simple as saying, If you don’t agree with the President about how big the federal government ought to be – he says you’re against the middle class. Now, does that really make sense?
But no voice took up the gauntlet.
Looking for a Voice
2015-03-24/
With the Irish Prime Minister sitting beside him, Obama said Republicans are against education. Infrastructure. Research. The things needed to create jobs. National defense. And the middle class.
Then having thrown down the gauntlet, and concisely summed up how he felt about the Republican budget, the President rolled out the welcome mat for the Prime Minister.
Next I turned to a stack of newspaper clippings about Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker – looking for an answer to Obama.
Walker was criticizing unions.
Cruz was criticizing Obama’s deal with Iran.
Paul was talking about criminal justice reform.
And Bush was saying it’s the President’s job to reweave civility into political discourse.
Answering Obama would have been as simple as saying, If you don’t agree with the President about how big the federal government ought to be – he says you’re against the middle class. Now, does that really make sense?
But no voice took up the gauntlet.