NObama Bipartisan Initiatives

Tapper tweets the GMA take: Republicans Surge in New ABC News/Washington Post Poll

We're not reaching back? The Dems have been in charge of everything, shutting Republicans out from any policy input for the last dismal year. You might say Michael Barone is disgusted: "With absolute power, Team Obama grows stupid":

Obama has had no bipartisan initiatives of his own.

How about starting from scratch with some common sense ideas instead of trying to cram a discredited bill through the discredited Dem process again. A dog and pony show is not the answer.

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Paul Ryan’s Medicaid fix for health care is a tough sell, but it’s a real plan. ► STEPHEN SPRUIELL

Budget on the Path to Ruin - Michael Gerson, Washington Post:

The new era of Democratic bipartisanship, like cut flowers in a vase, wilted in less than a week.

During his question time at the House Republican retreat, President Obama elevated Congressman and budget expert Paul Ryan as a "sincere guy" whose budget blueprint -- which, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), eventually achieves a balanced budget -- has "some ideas in there that I would agree with." Days later, Democratic legislators held a conference call to lambaste Ryan's plan as a vicious, voucherizing, privatizing assault on Social Security, Medicare and every non-millionaire American. Progressive advocacy groups and liberal bloggers joined the jeering in practiced harmony.

The attack "came out of the Democratic National Committee, and that is the White House," Ryan told me, sounding both disappointed and unsurprised. On the deficit, Obama's outreach to Republicans has been a ploy, which is to say, a deception. Once again, a president so impressed by his own idealism has become the nation's main manufacturer of public cynicism.

More. Fred and Jeri Thompson on the Obama ploy. And Reason's Jacob Sullum: Bend It Like Obama. Can the government control health care inflation through subsidies?

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