19 December, 2013

The Obama = Bush Meme by Ed Kilgore | Political Animal | The Washington Monthly

The Obama = Bush Meme by Ed Kilgore | Political Animal | The Washington Monthly: What Bush actually did after “listening” on Iraq (and suffering a subsequent midterm disaster) was to launch the “surge,” an escalation of the war that certainly did nothing to placate war opponents. But never mind. Given Fournier’s Iraq = Obamacare equation, he seems to be advising Obama to give up on implementation of the Affordable Care Act, a surrender of unimaginable magnitude.

The funny thing is Fournier probably thinks this was an entirely even-handed column—you know, one Bush criticism for every Obama criticism. But to the extent that he explains away Republican obstruction of Obama as retaliation, and blames every impasse on Obama, it’s hard to view this sort of “analysis” as anything other than GOP agitprop.