It's Still Obama's Way Or the Highway

In his first public appearance since the “ass-whupping” his party received on Tuesday (to use Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin’s phrase), President Obama showed that he is still in full campaign spin mode.

“What’s most important to the American people right now,” Obama said, “the resounding message not just of this election, but basically the last several is: Get stuff done. Don’t worry about the next election. Don’t worry about party affiliation. Do worry about our concerns.”

Of course, this is a rather obtuse take on what the voters said and did. They punished one specific party affiliation. And they did so precisely because the “stuff” that that party and its president have focused on “getting done” apparently does not align with, and perhaps even exacerbates, many of their concerns.

Obama also asserted that “the American people … expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours.”

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