Peggy Noonan: Why Can’t Obama Just Give Us What We Want?
You watch and wonder: Why does it always have to be cliffs with this president? Why is it always a high-stakes battle? Why doesn’t he shrewdly re-enact Ronald Reagan, meeting, arguing and negotiating in good faith with Speaker Tip O’Neill, who respected very little of what the president stood for and yet, at the end of the day and with the country in mind, could shake hands and get it done? Why is there never a sense with Mr. Obama that he understands the other guys’ real position?
It’s not as if Mr. Boehner and the Republicans wouldn’t deal. They’ve been weakened and they know it. A year ago they hoped winning the Senate and the presidency would break the stasis. They won neither. Mr. Obama not only was re-elected, it wasn’t that close, it was a clean win. If the president was clear about anything throughout the campaign, it was that he wanted to raise taxes on those he calls the rich. So you might say that a majority of the American people just endorsed that move.
No one would know this better than Mr. Boehner, who has risen to where he is in part because he’s good at seeing the lay of the land and admitting what’s there.
So it’s Obama’s fault for not just giving the GOP whatever it wants? How does that work? Oh yeah, I forgot! When Republicans win elections, they have unlimited political power and all must obey their dictates. When a Democrat wins, they really should just “compromise” with the losing minority. And by “compromise” they mean “do everything the way we want or we’ll bring the country to a screeching halt.”
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...a fine source of renewable energy. We have a seemingly infinite supply of such windbags.
Have a piece of cake, Peggy.
..Ann ("Just stop it!"
Romney.
But to the election. Who knows what to make of the weighting of the polls and the assumptions as to who will vote? Who knows the depth and breadth of each party’s turnout efforts? Among the wisest words spoken this cycle were by John Dickerson of CBS News and Slate, who said, in a conversation the night before the last presidential debate, that he thought maybe the American people were quietly cooking something up, something we don’t know about.
I think they are and I think it’s this: a Romney win.
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People are still laughing at their polling
Whiny fool.
with extra palm.....
How can I miss you if you won't go away? 
If I were wrong in public as often and as regularly as you are WRONG in public, I would be unemployed. But then again I'm not a Republican pundit. Apparently as a Republican pundit, you can have your head up your a$$ so far you can't see daylight, and you'll STILL be sought for an opinion.
Please step away from the bottle of Stoli...
the GOP just got crushed in the election. that means most people want the wealthy class to pay more taxes.
end of story.
