“Two Face” Obama played the “Healer-in-Chief” once the budget impasse ended with a victory for him.
But that “self-serving” role came only after he had spent four weeks “reprising” his 2012 campaign role as “ruthless” partisan “Slasher-in-Chief.”
For example, he used the White House “press” room to portray Republicans as “arsonists, kidnappers, deadbeats, butchers, lunatics and extortionists, obsessive’s, out-of-touch hostage-takers, nuclear-armed terrorists and extremists.”
Then he was all “sweetness and light” as he sought to reassure Americans about his “gauzily” described plans to revamp the “budget” and establish “immigration reform.”
In reality, he’s trying to “raise taxes, boost spending and triple immigration rates.”
None of those “goals” are popular with voters, so Obama offered “vague” reassurance, “honeyed” calls for bipartisanship, “self-effacing” promises of humility and “noble” appeals for good government.
“Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can,” he declared.
“We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that’s why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can’t degenerate into hatred.”
“We can debate those differences vigorously, passionately, in good faith,” he said.
“There’s no good reason why we can’t govern responsibly, despite our differences.”
“When we disagree, we don’t have to suggest that the other side doesn’t love this country or believe in free enterprise, or all the other rhetoric that seems to get worse every single year,” he said, without mentioning his previous “tirade” towards Republics disagreeing with his “arbitrary” political decisions.
