MORRISON, Colo. — On a picturesque night here, a bright blue light turns the red rocks of an amphitheater blue, with a giant Romney campaign “R.” Hours before Mitt Romney is set to arrive, not a detail is left to chance. Red and white thundersticks are handed out. A Latino family is placed front and center, holding “Democrats for Romney signs,” and Kid Rock takes the stage.
About 18 hours later and just 20 miles away, President Obama would arrive to a similar scene. Some 16,000 people crowded into a park in downtown Denver Wednesday afternoon, where supporters swayed to soul and hip-hop music with a lake and the Denver skyline in the background.
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WSJ: Whether he regrets pursuing ObamaCare and other liberal social priorities in his first two years rather than focusing on the economy.
"Absolutely not," Mr. Obama told the Iowa journalists. "Remember the context. First of all, Mitch McConnell has imposed an ironclad filibuster from the first day I was in office. And that's not speculation."
Whoaaaa there, big fella. Mr. McConnell was then and still is the Senate Minority Leader, and in 2009 he had all of 40 votes. Mr. Obama could have pursued any agenda he wanted, and the Des Moines editors wanted to know why he didn't focus on the economy first. Yet Mr. Obama's instinctive reaction is to blame Republican obstructionism that never happened.
In those first days of progressive wine and roses, Mr. Obama managed to peel off three Republican votes for his stimulus blowout in February 2009. He got five Republicans for the trial-bar gift known as the Lilly Ledbetter bill and nine for an expansion of the state children's health program, both in January. That was some ferocious filibuster.
By spring 2009, when Minnesota's Al Franken was seated, the White House had 60 votes and a GOP-only filibuster wasn't even possible. "We have the votes. F-- 'em," declared then-Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, according to the first-100-days chapters of Bob Woodward's new book.
How do we know that 16,000 people REALLY were at the Obama rallly? Because the Liberal news media said so?
I'm still amazed that Sandra Fluke rated a story from the Globe but the Benghazi Betrayal did not. That's some newspaper you got there.