By Warner Todd Huston ——Bio and Archives--December 25, 2010
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“The big question going forward is whether Republicans will continue to cooperate when they have a bigger… minority in the Senate and a majority in the House. You see some Republicans today saying, ‘well this isn’t great, you know, now the president’s got all these victories and he’s not so weakened anymore and they don’t like that.’”But that was nothing compared to the wishful thinking hogwash Roberts unleashed at the end of the interview. Ultimately Roberts tried to create a false political reality, one that would favor her beloved president. But it is a political landscape that exists only in her head and is proof that Cokie Roberts is no honest political analyst.
“I really think that voter response is going to tell the next Congress a lot. Because if people start to say, ‘Hey we like this cooperation that we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks,’ then it becomes harder to just be obstructionists. And right now Congress is at its lowest level ever in public opinion, so they’ve got that cut out for them.”So, let us get this straight. In Roberts’ fevered dreams she sees the voters saying they “like this cooperation” they have seen in the lame duck session and that will force the GOP to compromise more in 2011? Roberts is positing that the landslide GOP election, the one that saw more Republicans elected than have been since the 1940s, has all been wiped away because Obama and the GOP might have had a few days of working together? She’s obviously been living in a cave not to understand the import of the 2010 elections. The truth is, though, Roberts wants the vast majority of voters to become powerless because they do not support her left wing agenda. She dearly hopes that the anger felt toward the Democrats and the President by the overwhelming majority of voters is now moot because of a few days in congress. Roberts is no less than trying to add her voice in an attempt to fool people into believing that the GOP should bend over backwards to come to the president’s point of view. She is trying to neuter the GOP tidal wave about to sweep into Washington before they even take their seats for their first day of work. Fortunately, it is little else but Roberts revealing her agenda soused with a large dollop of wishful thinking. The next congress could be one of the most conservative congresses in decades and with the Tea Party movement prodding them onwards — as it successfully did defeating the DREAM Act — bending over backwards for the extremely leftist agenda of Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid is not a very likely outcome. But a girl can dream, can’t she?
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Warner Todd Huston’s thoughtful commentary, sometimes irreverent often historically based, is featured on many websites such as Breitbart.com, among many, many others. He has also written for several history magazines, has appeared on numerous TV and radio shows.
He is also the owner and operator of Publius’ Forum.