Karl "Geppetto" Rove, string-puller for the little wooden frat boy that could, on "photo ops"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

The President's GOP Outreach Comes Too Late
A photo-op is not the same as compromising on policy.
FEBRUARY 3, 2010, 6:58 P.M. ET

By KARL ROVE

Last Friday, President Obama met with House Republicans in Baltimore. He took questions, parried criticisms, and allowed all of it to be put on television.

Framed as an opportunity for the president to hear from the other side, Mr. Obama's real aim was to portray Republicans as obstructionist and boost his own public standing in the process.

Afterward, Gallup found that Mr. Obama's approval hit 51%, up from 47% after the State of the Union address two days earlier. But in winning that small victory, Mr. Obama also further poisoned his relationship with Republicans by repeatedly saying things that are demonstrably not true.

For example, when Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling asked if the president's new budget would, "like your old budget, triple the national debt" and increase "the cost of government to almost 25% of the economy," Mr. Obama denied it. But that's exactly what Mr. Obama proposed doing in his budget framework that Congress passed last April, according to both Congressional Budget Office and White House documents.

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[yurbud]

1. if Karl is unhappy, it's a good thing. Could you imagine him saying this if Bush castigated Dems?

[tanyev]

2. You really want to go there, Karl? Seriously?

[peacetalksforall]

3. It's like he personally coached Hensarling OF TEXAS himself and can't bare

the idea that Obama used facts that Karl must have lost or he would have included them in his OP and proved to the readers of his article WHY Obama was wrong. But, he skipped over his claim. Even the grand Karl is not refuting the numbers and timing that Obama stated. Numbers and timing don't lie. Obama delivered. Karl crashed.