President Huggy Bear

What a difference a year makes. When newly elected President Obama and his socialist comrades assumed power in 2009, they had their own agenda, and a ‘supermajority’ in Congress to pass their legislation. And when the Republican minority objected to their proposed changes in heath care, pork laden TARP legislation, and other redistribution of wealth programs, Republicans were basically told to shut the hell up and go away.
Turn the clock forward to 2010. Democratic losses in Virginia, New Jersey, and the biggest shocker, the loss of a Senate seat in Massachusetts. A growing number of incumbent democrats in congress start announcing they won’t be running for re-election to prevent the embarrassment of getting hammered in the November elections. All the sudden, the Administration has started using words like “bipartisan” and “reaching across the aisle”.
President Obama is now all warm and fuzzy towards the opposition party. So I’m calling him the new Huggy Bear president. He’s realized he just can’t crap all over Republicans anymore. He may just need them to pass any kind of health care legislation - so now on February 25, he is inviting 21 congressional leaders, both Democrat and Republican, to the Blair House in Washington to have a Health Care Summit. Supposedly to listen to Republican ideas on heath care. What Obama and his supermajority in Congress could not get done is over a year, he will now fix in a half day conference.
Don’t kid yourself - this “love fest” is eye wash. The Democrats know they are in trouble. They need to make the appearance that they want to work with Republicans - but truth is, they have no intention of doing so. Their liberal arrogance won’t allow it. So just remember, behind that huggy bear persona lies the face of a hard core liberal.