Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 01/08/2010 7:38:23 AM PST by tobyhill
For the sixth time in 11 days, President Barack Obama was back before the cameras Thursday, talking about airline safety and anti-terrorism. He then left quickly for a second White House room to meet with Senate chairmen and press them to have a health care bill on his desk no later than next month.
Two very different issues with one common thread: Obama engaging, shedding his famous detachment after watching the intensity of his support drop dramatically since last spring.
To get health care, he must be both a broker and a buffer, absorbing the heat for difficult decisions at a time when Democratic leaders in the House and Senate have largely exhausted their own political capital — and much of their caucuses’. In the case of terrorism, Obama recognizes too that he must be more out front, responding to the public’s gut fears and anger after the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner Christmas Day. “Ultimately, the buck stops with me,” he said.
As a candidate, Obama’s cool was never fatal because so many voters simply imposed their own dreams on him. But wrapped in the bubble of the Oval Office and surrounded by Ivy-educated budget and economic advisers, this detachment is magnified and hurts him with lawmakers and voters alike, looking for more of a connection amid tough times.
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“To get health care, he must be both a broker and a buffer, absorbing the heat for difficult decision...”
Obama and his thugs have no concept of the magnitude of the heat that’s gonna come if they pass this unconstitutional monstrosity.
Just my humble prediction.
If Chavez sends his Venezuelan Army to invade Florida, we have just got to stop them before they get to Disney World so we can read them their rights and get them each an attorney.
Fonzie humped the shark.
Noted a lot of blinkink when he gave his speech wonder why?.
blinkink / blinking glasses where are they.
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