Following the Obama administration's historic deal with Iran this past weekend, Texas Senator and Congressperson voted most likely to have failed Kindergarten - John Cornyn - tweeted this message:
"Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care"
Sadly, this kind of thinking is far from an aberration for the Republican Party. Remember when the president tried convincing Congress to make a deal on student loan interest rates, because the lower rates were about to expire and students are paying too much money for tuition as it is? Some members of the GOP declared that the president was only trying to talk about such matters as a distraction from headlines pertaining to the IRS and NSA.
I have a crazy message for Senator Cornyn and those like him, whom feel the president only tries accomplishing things when there are negative headlines swirling, to try and distract the public from those headlines. Barack Obama was elected twice to lead this country as our president. That's his job. It's his job to represent the people of this country and attempt to move us forward as a nation. This means that even if Congressional Republicans don't approve of how he's doing his job, he's still going to try and get things done. I know - it's the craziest thing, isn't it?
When news broke about the IRS and NSA, while it was President Obama's job to stand up to reporters, answer questions regarding the matters, and hopefully clarify things to the majority's liking, he couldn't cross off everything on his to-do list just to appease Congressional Republicans. There was more going on in this country than talk about the IRS and NSA abusing their powers. The same thing is happening now. While healthcare.gov has experienced its share of problems, the president has spoken at length about the subject, assured us they're working hard to improve the site, delayed deadlines, and even constructed a plan B for people whom are still having trouble with the site, and guess what? He has more on his plate than just that.
I thought the Republican Party was full of business savvy individuals. What do they expect the leader or leaders of a business to do if a bad headline is pointed in its direction or some controversy surrounds the business? Shut it down and lose money as a result? Actually, given the fact House Republicans shut the federal government down and cost this country $24 billion, perhaps that's a stupid question on my part.
A true leader shows his or her strength when they're able to stay focused and move things forward amid distractions, and President Obama has faced his fare share of those - often times thanks to Congressional Republicans. To John Cornyn and those like him, this isn't about believing the president is trying to divert the public's attention away from a negative headline. It's about trying to dominate the news headlines and make the president and the Democrat Party look progressively worse so that they have a better chance of winning elections in 2014 and 2016. If President Obama put the government on hold every time Congressional Republicans had a problem with something he said or did, the federal government would have been shut down since the president's first inauguration in 2009. The only possible thing he could do to satisfy them is for both he and Joe Biden to resign, so that House Speaker John Boehner became president.
In other news, word has it that the healthcare.gov site has improved pretty dramatically in the past week or so, but nevermind about that - John Cornyn would simply think I was attempting to distract from the more negative news surrounding the website in recent weeks. Why try to learn from mistakes and move forward as opposed to dwelling on those mistakes and not giving oneself the chance to do so? I don't know either, but John Cornyn seems to for some odd reason...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/23/john-cornyn-iran-_n_4331856.html
"Amazing what WH will do to distract attention from O-care"
Sadly, this kind of thinking is far from an aberration for the Republican Party. Remember when the president tried convincing Congress to make a deal on student loan interest rates, because the lower rates were about to expire and students are paying too much money for tuition as it is? Some members of the GOP declared that the president was only trying to talk about such matters as a distraction from headlines pertaining to the IRS and NSA.
I have a crazy message for Senator Cornyn and those like him, whom feel the president only tries accomplishing things when there are negative headlines swirling, to try and distract the public from those headlines. Barack Obama was elected twice to lead this country as our president. That's his job. It's his job to represent the people of this country and attempt to move us forward as a nation. This means that even if Congressional Republicans don't approve of how he's doing his job, he's still going to try and get things done. I know - it's the craziest thing, isn't it?
When news broke about the IRS and NSA, while it was President Obama's job to stand up to reporters, answer questions regarding the matters, and hopefully clarify things to the majority's liking, he couldn't cross off everything on his to-do list just to appease Congressional Republicans. There was more going on in this country than talk about the IRS and NSA abusing their powers. The same thing is happening now. While healthcare.gov has experienced its share of problems, the president has spoken at length about the subject, assured us they're working hard to improve the site, delayed deadlines, and even constructed a plan B for people whom are still having trouble with the site, and guess what? He has more on his plate than just that.
I thought the Republican Party was full of business savvy individuals. What do they expect the leader or leaders of a business to do if a bad headline is pointed in its direction or some controversy surrounds the business? Shut it down and lose money as a result? Actually, given the fact House Republicans shut the federal government down and cost this country $24 billion, perhaps that's a stupid question on my part.
A true leader shows his or her strength when they're able to stay focused and move things forward amid distractions, and President Obama has faced his fare share of those - often times thanks to Congressional Republicans. To John Cornyn and those like him, this isn't about believing the president is trying to divert the public's attention away from a negative headline. It's about trying to dominate the news headlines and make the president and the Democrat Party look progressively worse so that they have a better chance of winning elections in 2014 and 2016. If President Obama put the government on hold every time Congressional Republicans had a problem with something he said or did, the federal government would have been shut down since the president's first inauguration in 2009. The only possible thing he could do to satisfy them is for both he and Joe Biden to resign, so that House Speaker John Boehner became president.
In other news, word has it that the healthcare.gov site has improved pretty dramatically in the past week or so, but nevermind about that - John Cornyn would simply think I was attempting to distract from the more negative news surrounding the website in recent weeks. Why try to learn from mistakes and move forward as opposed to dwelling on those mistakes and not giving oneself the chance to do so? I don't know either, but John Cornyn seems to for some odd reason...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/23/john-cornyn-iran-_n_4331856.html
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