House Rejects Trade Measure, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal


The New York Times has the article House Rejects Trade Measure, Rebuffing Obama’s Dramatic Appeal.

House Democrats on Friday thwarted … his chance to secure a legacy-defining accord spanning the Pacific Ocean.

I went back and checked. As far as I can tell, this was intended as a news story. It was not printed on an op-ed page, so I don’t think they warned you that it was an opinion piece. I wonder if you can detect from that opening to the story whether or not The New York Times has an opinion about the trade deal and whether or not they are keeping that opinion suppressed so that they can just bring you the news.

Ironically, President Obama should shake the hands of every one of those Democrats for saving him from the fate of leaving a horrible legacy.

More ironically, Obama refused to enlist the support of the people to get his programs passed. When he went against the people, they showed him what power they have that he failed to use for his own purposes when he needed it.

Sometimes, I still just cannot understand what this President is thinking. That just made me think to classify this blog post under the category Greenberg’s Law of Counterproductive Behavior.

If you see a behavior that seems to you to be counterproductive, perhaps you have misunderstood what the behavior was trying to produce.

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