Freak Show vs. Bogeyman:
While my original intent was the feeling that this is getting old, or rather
childish. Then to see the nature of the exchange on Morning Joe, it takes some
perspectivising.* Martin Bashir covers another aspect of the
picture show. Back to the future, I mean Morning Joe, who is in the drivers seat? Mika or Joe? The image of President Obama getting into a car at an auto show. Who is in the drivers seat? Politically the President is. But it is like one of those drivers-ed cars with a second wheel and brakes on the passenger side, and congress is in that seat. But with Batman, I mean Bashir on West, Republicans would have no message if they did not have imagined monsters: "equality of achievement", "economic dependency"and "enslaving".
So...bottom line, Political is a double-edged
sword. There is the race and there is the economy. Congress plays a role in both, and negative is not just ugly, it can have actual facts. So Mika can say that Obama is behind the wheel. And Joe can say he is not. Now you may see that the president is not the only one in the car, with a hand on the
wheel.
* not that I take the Mediaite
perspective (Donny Deutsch made a reasonable point, see negative/ugly/facts.)
[Not to call it a
hatefest, just a hecuvafest.]
[
not to
leap fest** but I am missing a piece on certainty***.]
[Action
item: FEC apointments & expired terms]
** tba: no pun on SBA, but to be arranged
*** dba? a pun/myst on the "free market" need(see drives-ed car) for certainty