What Obama won’t accept is that it is in the very nature of conservatism to question “progress” when progress means an expanding entitlement state and the degradation of traditional values that have helped keep society intact.
Obama believes it is irresponsible lunacy to threaten to shut the government down or not raise the debt ceiling in order to get one’s way. But for conservatives in Congress, what is lunacy is the longstanding willingness of moderate Republicans to shake hands on deals that have generated $16.4 trillion in debt and new bills totaling $1 trillion per year.
By defining an unwillingness to make progress as “absolutism,” Obama is telling Republicans they do not have a right to their philosophy, which seeks to halt in its tracks the “progress” that threatens to destroy the nation.
Washington’s cognoscenti nod in agreement with the president. But they have been duped by his façade of reasonableness.
For what’s hidden beneath Obama’s friendly visage is a canny politician and a leftist political theorist who would demean the very democracy he claims to defend by vilifying his opponents as power-hungry cynics.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/obamas-dangerous-charge-of-absolutism-86773_Page2.html#ixzz2JJsaA2IC
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