(CBS 60 Minute Obama interview, snip) “If you ask me what’s my biggest disappointment, it’s that we haven’t changed the tone in Washington as much as I would have liked,” he told CBS.
No doubt partisan sniping isn’t helping the nation solve its most pressing problems.
But his “biggest disappointment” is that people who live and work inside the Beltway aren’t being nicer to each other?
Is he serious?
It isn’t persistently sluggish economic growth — or an unemployment rate that has proved resistant to the administration’s repeated attempt at “stimulus”? The fact that 23 million Americans remain unemployed or underemployed?
It isn’t the failure to reform Medicare and Social Security in an attempt to shrink the trillion-dollar annual budget deficit?
It isn’t the failure to achieve comprehensive immigration reform? (Actually, it just might be, if you believe the president’s answer to a similiar question last week on Univision.)
It isn’t the fact that despite the administration’s diplomatic outreach Iran appears closer than ever to developing a nuclear weapon? Or this nation’s frayed relations with Israel?
The White House surely would argue that it is “the tone” that is preventing progress on all those fronts — “tone” substituting for one-sided partisan gridlock (not the Democrats’ side, of course).
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