By Mr. Curmudgeon
The New York Times photo said it all: there was President Obama, Republican Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor, eyes closed and heads bowed in prayer. The president was meeting with Congressional Republicans in Baltimore to convince them to join Democrats in growing government power beyond the limits of fiscal prudence and at the expense of individual liberty.
“I don't think the American people want us to focus on our job security,” Obama told the assembled lawmakers. One can only hope the president’s call for Republicans to commit hara-kiri was enough to arouse the most cataleptic Republican attendant.
Obama fondly recalled past support given power-crazed Democrats by such renowned Republican compromisers as Bob Dole and Howard Baker, “that's not a radical bunch, but if you were to listen to the debate,” the president said of Tea Party opposition to ObamaCare, “you'd think this was some Bolshevik plot.” Obama’s prayer meeting with Republicans is a Hail Mary play to drive a wedge between an impotent Republican leadership and an effective and potent Tea Party. The White House hopes to push Republicans into compromising with Obama’s radical agenda or paint them as “the party of no.” Taking their cue from the president, Republicans should man-up and declare themselves “the party of no to Bolshevik plots.”
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