Reply #13: Strawman [View All]

"I also know that the majority of democrats want "better" bills that what we got, but we did get something that we can build on"

Actually, some of the people that Gibbs is complaining about are making the case that they ARE NOT something to build upon, but something that obstructs the ultimate goal.

This would be true of moving, not closing, Gitmo to Illinois and making it a permanent facility for indefinite extrajudicial detentions. It would be a mandate, that is most definitely not something to build on, nor cadillac taxes. It would be escalataing the war in Afghanistan and killling more innnocent Afghans.

If you're going to criticize the left, you could at least address their points.

"He hasn't gotten everything done he wanted to"

Right, he didn't get Specter. Has he done for Sestak what he did for Specter yet? Fund raiser, presidential visits?
He did get Lincoln though, well so far. He did get the mandate he asked for, and he chose the cadillac tax over the increase on the top 2% of wage earners though. And he did get to escalate the war in Afghanistan. They even had a vote on that and he won. So what is it that he's not getting again?

It might really help if the critics of the left would actually argue against the points of the left, instead of making up their own, as Gibbs did recently.