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The White House is Scared To Death of the Right

September 2, 2010 at 4:36 PM Leave a comment

So, Rahm Emanuel calls liberals “fu*king retards” and Robert Gibbs lashes out at the “professional left.“  In addition, I heard someone talking on the radio today about a new book coming out (don’t remember the title or the name of the author because I didn’t think I needed to … until now) about the inner workings of the Obama White House and its disdain for unions.

OK, so that said, we learn that Robert Gibbs “got into it” today on Twitter with uber-neocon Stephen Hayes of the Rupert Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard:

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs got into it with critic Stephen Hayes on Twitter Thursday after the Weekly Standard contributor suggested that the small business aid bill currently stalled in the Senate would not improve businesses’ hiring.

“In conversations w/small biz owners, they’ll give you dozens of reasons they’re not hiring. Never had anyone mention small biz aid bill,” Hayes said in a Thursday tweet.

“ATTN @stephenfhayes,” Gibbs fired back. His tweet linked to an article from USA Today reporting that some business owners were delaying hiring and purchasing to wait out a vote on the bill, which was expected earlier this summer.

Hayes quickly responded, saying “Ask small business owners across the country if they’d rather have across-the-bd tax cuts or gov-backed loans @PressSec.”

He followed with a series of tweets, citing a National Federation of Independent Business report that stated that poor sales, rather than an inability to access credit, was their “top problem.”

Hayes went on to quote the report:

“‘Small bus owner responses make clear  that the Admin and Cong nvr understood and still do not understand Main Street’s problem’

“Admin and Cong “knowingly initiated major destabilizing, policy changes in a deep, destabilizing recession.”

Gibbs  responded after a long pause.

“The facts @stephenfhayes there would be ZERO capital gains on small business investment, expand tax cuts for new equip investments,” he said.

(Who knows, this tit for tat could continue so follow it and see the original tweets mentioned above at Robert Gibbs’ Twitter feed and Stephen Hayes Twitter feed.)

Anyway, what we learn from this is that when the “professional left” criticizes the White House — as in, oh, say the lack of a public option in the health care “reform” bill, they get irritated, call us names, and blow us off.  When one of the most prominent, radical conservatives in the country criticizes what’s lacking in a White House bill, they take him seriously and respond.

As Chris Hayes tweeted a few minutes ago:

And he’s exactly right.

The White House is scared to death of the right while it simultaneously appears to loath its base.

Is it any wonder there’s “malaise” amongst Democrats this year?

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