Charging one’s opponents with bad faith is the ultimate political ad hominem. It obviates argument, fact, logic, history. Conservatives resist Obama’s social-democratic, avowedly transformational agenda not just on principle but on empirical grounds, as well — the economic and moral unraveling of Europe’s social-democratic experiment, on display today from Athens to the streets of London.
If I had held any expectations of the President, I would say that his practice of assuming and assigning bad intentions to the opposition is beneath him. Virtually any of these statements could be repeated by any politician in either of the dominant parties. Anyone can say "those folks' motives are bad!" It's a meaningless statement, since even a person with bad intentions can choose a right legislative course - and in fact, I would bet this has been the case, assuming there was ever a right legislative course chosen.
Every politician has but one motive - their own political self preservation.
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