Republicans have seized on The Price of Politics as evidence President Obama is in over his head on the economy.The White House on Monday pushed back against Woodward’s latest conclusions: that weak leadership by Obama worsened last year’s debt-ceiling crisis and led to the failure to enact a deficit grand bargain.Obama's leadership during the crisis was "significant," according to White House spokesman Jay Carney, and reflected a "sincere and deliberate" effort to compromise.Carney said that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) showed he was "willing to compromise" during secret debt talks with Obama last summer, but that "unfortunately, throughout that process ... House Republicans walked away.""The president fought hard for a grand bargain. ... At the end, the Speaker looked over his shoulder and found there was no one behind him,” Carney said.Boehner’s office countered that Woodward’s book shows Obama “lost his courage” when it came time to strike a deal.The RNC is focusing on a part of the book in which Woodward clarifies that the debt-ceiling deal — which includes the controversial defense sequester for which Mitt Romney has blamed Obama — was hammered out after Obama left the room.
so as the right wing who has embraced this book as gospel when portraying them in a positive light, do they also embrace Romney was lying when he kept trying to blame the Pres. and the WH for the sequester, when their reference book says he wasn't there?
you can cut the desperation that permeates the republican air with a butter knife, thick and melting away.
lies are a funny thing, they are self perpetuating no one person can control them, not even master equivocators such as Romney , Ryan and the gang.
