What election loss? It's still Obama's way or the highway.

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:

In his first public appearance since the “ass-whupping” his party received on Tuesday (to use Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin's phrase), President Obama showed that he is still in full campaign spin mode.

 

“What’s most important to the American people right now,” Obama said, “the resounding message not just of this election, but basically the last several is: Get stuff done. Don't worry about the next election. Don't worry about party affiliation. Do worry about our concerns.”

 

Of course, this is a rather obtuse take on what the voters said and did. They punished one specific party affiliation. And they did so precisely because the “stuff” that that party and its president have focused on “getting done” apparently does not align with, and perhaps even exacerbates, many of their concerns.

 

 

Obama also asserted that “the American people ... expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours.”

 

And then, with a straight face, he announced that he would go on to focus on his own ambition, not theirs — he will press ahead with a legacy-building move to loosen immigration enforcement, without seeking a vote from Congress.

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Liberal Chick Channels Founding Father

 

 

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Via CRASHR

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Obama on the Importance of Elections, Then and Now

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 11:37 am

 

Chris Cilizza, October 27, 2013: President Obama to Republicans: I won. Deal with it.

A visibly frustrated President Obama delivered a blunt message to Republicans with whom he had feuded over the government shutdown and the debt ceiling over the past month on Tuesday: Elections matter. I won; you lost. Deal with it.

 

That’s a paraphrase — obviously. Here’s what Obama actually said:

 

“You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don’t break it. Don’t break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That’s not being faithful to what this country’s about.”

 

“Go out there and win an election.” That’s about as direct as you will ever hear a politician be about how he feels about his opposition and how they are conducting themselves. (It’s not the first time Obama has used the “I won”

http://patterico.com/2014/11/09/obama-on-the-importance-of-elections-then-and-now/