The Media Are In The Bag For Obama

The Media Are In The Bag For Obama: "The debt talks handed President Obama a timely opportunity to position himself as a centrist for the 2012 elections and win back independents who've been abandoning him.

Of course, the idea that Obama is a moderate is ludicrous to anyone who's even casually followed this presidency. The biggest expansion in federal spending since World War II, ObamaCare, regulators run amok and now the push for massive tax hikes. No wonder more than half the public — including one in five Democrats — think Obama's more liberal than they are.

But to the mainstream press, Obama merely has to call himself a centrist for reporters to believe it, parroting the White House storyline that the president is courageously taking on his own party, while asking only that Republicans compromise on tax hikes

As the Washington Post's Dan Balz, put it, Obama has 'tried to set himself apart from Republicans and many Democrats as the leader most determined to solve a big problem with a big solution and as the politician most willing to make real compromises to get there.'

Seriously? The truth is Obama's been AWOL on the debt debate. He ignored his own debt commission last December, issued a bogus budget this February, gave a speech without details in April, and had to be dragged into debt talks kicking and screaming. Even now, Obama has yet to produce anything like a concrete plan."