Obama’s Naivete on Bipartisanship Has Finally Caught Up to Him
Howard Fineman, Senior Political Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: December 1, 2010 01:37 PM
On the Hill yesterday, GOP aides privately could barely contain their contempt — and their amusement — at the president’s declaration of a dawn of bipartisan optimism.
They know that Obama already in effect has conceded on a two- or three-year extension of all tax cuts, and they are going to insist on that before considering anything else — which, in the end, they won’t.
Barack Obama and his crew have many good qualities. But that list does not include skill and guts at legislative combat with Republicans. They don’t seem to really know the enemy or the game they are in, and the president’s meager and glancing experience in the trenches of politics has caught up with him.
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because he never has, not even when he was in the Senate