Obama Reaching Out

by digby

Watching that unctuous, cloying, precious, smarmy reptile Mike Pence with his trademarked furrowed brow and patented fake sincerity ask the president if he’s open to across the board tax cuts is enough to make me puke. But then, Obama appearing at the Republican retreat explaining himself, insisting that he isn’t an ideologue, listening calmly to their lies and phony posturing, is enough to make me puke.

I guess he wants to be seen as reaching out, and maybe it’s a form of kabuki that the folks will find appealing. But it makes no difference in terms of what is actually passed by this congress and, as they did with Clinton, they will chop his hand off the first chance they get.

But hey, if they can get him to agree to enact huge portions of the Republican agenda — and Ross Perot and Bob Dole agree to run in 2012, this whole thing might just work out for everyone.

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