Many decades ago, there was a character on the old Andy Griffith show named Gomer Pyle whose trademark comment was "surprise, surprise, surprise!" That is how I feel today after the completion of the big meeting at the White House between president Obama and the congressional leadership of both parties. the main topic was supposed to be dealing with preventing the impending tax increases scheduled for January 1, 2011. Not surprisingly, there was no agreement. Even though the American people made clear their preferences on election day, Obama and his Obamacrat allies are still pushing the same job killing strategies that failed to work for the first two years of Obama's term. Oh, the spin is out there with Obama and most of the congressional leaders saying what a good meeting it was and how there will be further efforts to reach a consensus, but the main point is that nothing was agreed to at a point when there is only a few weeks left to act. The truth is that it is time for obama to recognize the new reality. Remember Mr. President, as you kept telling us in 2009, "Elections have consequences." (And you did not win!)
On another note, the current importance of Harry Reid is best illustrated by this passage from the AP story on the meeting:
"Obama promised to invite the leaders to Camp David, an offer that he said especially pleased Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who pointed out that in his 28 years in Congress he had never been to the presidential retreat in the mountains of northern Maryland."
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