Rachel Maddow had a brilliant analysis of Obama’s budget speech on her show last night. She lauded the President for “committing math” in public, and made a great show with freeze frames of recreating his image for what the Republican tax cuts for the wealthy plan (erroneously referred to by the rest of the press as a “deficit reduction” plan) actually means (the picture below is a clickable link to the video clip):
Rachel Maddow on Presidential Math
I’m not at all confident about Obama’s follow through on doing any of the things he promised, given his track record, but it was a remarkable showing of spine, given his willingness heretofore to allow the Republicans to set the agenda and move the debate so far to the right as to warrant the resurrection of the 50′s terminology “reactionary” for the lunatics who are so shamefully called “conservatives” by the mainstream press.
Rachel also highlighted the spine regeneration aspect of the speech by calling the whole segment “Not While I’m President”:
Rachel Maddow segment "It's not going to happen as long as I'm President"
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