Hammer home the obvious

The problem with dealing with Obama in good faith is that he never returns the favour. Republicans act like grown-ups and treat him with respect and, in return, he has tantrums and tells outrageous lies.

True, this is standard fare for Democrats, but Obama takes it to a new level by his staggering hypocrisy. For instance:

1. He prattles on about how we need cooperation and mutual respect, but he's the most partisan president in recent memory.

2. He claims that the Republicans' budget ideas will cut money to soldiers while the Biden plan would cut $1 trillion in defense spending.

3. He claims that the Republicans' budget ideas will cut money from seniors and then turns around and says that if the Republicans don't raise the debt limit, he'll withhold cheques to senior citizens. Such a move would be 100% Obama's choice. But rather than cut spending on liberal causes, Obama will cut off seniors. This is how little he (and the Democratic leadership) care about seniors: they're willing to sacrifice them for political advantage.

In light of this, there's no sense attempting to deal with Obama as if he were a responsible, honest adult. Instead, Republicans need to state the truth clearly, simply, and repeatedly. Hammer it home.

For instance, we should be hearing all Repbulicans making the following points every day:

1. Obama and the Democrats passed a $1 trillion stimulus package promising us it would solve the unemployment problem. At the time, all conservatives insisted it would be a failure. We no longer have to guess. It was an unmitigated disaster. They wasted $1 trillion. Conservatives don't have to theorize about whether or not a stimulus package will work. It's been tried. It didn't.

2. Why would we ever agree to another stimulus package (i.e. a spending bonanza for Democrats to throw cash at all their favourite liberal causes) when the mother of all stimulus packages has been such a nightmare?

3. The Democrats are so fiscally inept that even when they controlled both houses of congress and the White House, they were unable to pass a budget.

4. Obama has no plan, other than the standard hard-left plan of spend, spend, spend, tax, tax, tax. He makes vague claims about being willing to explore various options, but talk is cheap. If he were either serious or honest, he would have a written proposal that Americans could examine. But he has no such proposal because he is neither. His plan is spend, spend, spend, tax, tax, tax. But you can't get elected if you're honest about that so he simply claims to have a plan and then whines about every actual proposal the Republicans advance.

5. Obama is playing politics instead of trying to help the country.