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Delusion

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Idiot not-so-savant Robert Gibbs:

WALLACE: You don’t think when they voted for Brown they were voting against Obama policies?

GIBBS: That’s not what they told pollsters, no. People are angry in the country and angry in Massachusetts we haven’t made more question on the economy. Talk about health care — this is something you said is stopping about health-care reform.

WALLACE: He said he was the 41st vote.

GIBBS: 70% of the voters in Massachusetts want him to work with the Democrats on health-care reform.

So, because they want their new Senator to work with the Democrats on health-care reform, they elected a Republican who said he opposed it and would vote against it. Got it.

Who the gods would destroy, they first make mad. Apparently the gods aren’t done with these people.

5 thoughts on “Delusion”

  1. Gibbs is the White House Press Secretary. It’s his job to put a positive spin on anything that happens. Obama says the sky is green? “Even Nature is weighing in on the benefits of cap and trade!” Obama caught eating babies? “Healthy children are the foundation of a strong Republic. And Obama is fighting the dire peril of overpopulation personally!”

  3. It’s not delusion, it’s contempt. Contempt for the American people, and contempt for the White House press corps. Gibbs knows that the relatively few people who follow politics enough to care what’s said in a press conference either love Obama or despise him, so he doesn’t care what sort of nonsense he spouts — he might as well play to the president’s fan club. And he knows that the media won’t call him on his bullshit — it’s damned seldom that they’ll even ask neutral followup questions, much less express any skepticism when he lies to their faces.

  4. Mike, I wouldn’t even give Gibbs that much credit. He’s just repeating his boss’ spin from last Wednesday:

    “Here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country: the same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office,” the president said in an exclusive interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos. “People are angry and they are frustrated. Not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened over the last eight years.”

  5. So, because they want their new Senator to work with the Democrats on health-care reform, they elected a Republican who said he opposed it and would vote against it. Got it.

    Why is this so hard to believe? Most voters — independents in particular — think they’re choosing between two candidates, not between two parties.

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