Maggie's Farm

From Green's article:

"Obama’s team attempted to use the Tucson massacre in the same fashion that Clinton used the Oklahoma City bombings, to discredit the GOP. Obama is acutely aware of the Clinton playbook. This is another re-run."

That failed miserably and made Democrats look foolish and callous. Even my liberalest of liberal friends admitted that the shooter was just nuts and politics had nothing to do with it.

And Obama's transparent attempt to "set a trap" with the budget will fail as well. First, it's too obvious. Second, he's clearly playing games with the budget, which people won't like due to the dire situation. And third, the Republicans actually appear to have a plan to deal with it. The first stage is for everyone to go out and point out Obama's abject failure in taking the lead. He's abdicating his role as leader. He's weak, cowardly. After Democrats insist he is leading, the next stage will be to accurately accuse him of playing political games with the budget while we're facing national bankruptcy. We weren't facing bankruptcy in 1995. It is much more serious now, and everyone knows it.

And one final thing, the Republicans can turn around the sob story tactic too. Obama's budget brutally cuts some areas of discretionary spending while leaving entitlements completely untouched. So when a bunch of people get canned as the SBA and other agencies take 40% cuts, the Republicans can retort: "Look, if Obama had some political courage, this wouldn't have to be happening. We need to spread the cuts much more evenly across the entire budget instead of eviscerating small sectors of the budget out of fear of touching a single penny of the much larger expenditures."