Leon Panetta---Douchebag of the day

[trumad]

Leon--you're a fucking idiot douchebag if you think this is the same as 1995.

Leon Panetta served in Washington with nine presidents, starting with Lyndon Johnson. He has been a member of Congress, Office of Management and Budget director, White House chief of staff, director of the Central Intelligence Agency and secretary of defense — the last two under President Obama. He is a man who knows Washington and knows how to choose his words. So Panetta’s implicit rebuke of the president’s hands-off approach to the budget crisis at a breakfast Monday was striking.

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Then, to Obama. “This president — he’s extremely bright, he’s extremely able, he’s somebody who I think certainly understands the issues, asks the right questions, and I think has the right instincts about what needs to be done for the country.”

Next came the “but” — without a name but with a clear message. “You have to engage in the process. This is a town where it’s not enough to feel you have the right answers. You’ve got to roll up your sleeves and you’ve got to really engage in the process .?.?. that’s what governing is all about.”

Bloomberg’s Al Hunt asked Panetta how Clinton would have handled the current situation differently. “We were negotiating up to the last minute in the Oval Office” before the 1995 shutdown, recounted Panetta, then Clinton’s chief of staff. “Some of us were nervous that Bill Clinton was bending over backwards to try to see if he could get a deal.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ruth-marcus-leon-panetta-rebukes-obamas-handling-of-shutdown/2013/10/14/d5252dc4-34f9-11e3-be86-6aeaa439845b_story.html?hpid=z2

[Autumn]

1. Nice!!!!

Can we get a forum where we can vote on and bestow these prestigious awards?

[DJ13]

2. Anyone who works for multiple administrations and both parties

Is little more than a handmaiden for the 1%.

[TwilightGardener]

3. The part-time SecDef who cost this country UNTOLD $$$ flying back and forth to California

every fucking weekend sez what now? Shaddap, Leon.

[joeybee12]

4. Unrec...a little harmless criticism does not a d-bag make...

Honestly. Thank God the people actually being criticized aren't as thin-skinned as here on DU.

[elleng]

5. Yes, Right, Thanks.

[trumad]

8. Fuck that DINO

[Cha]

11. +1

[pa28]

6. He thinks total capitulation will usher in a new age of co-operative governing.

What a colossal asshole.

[Cha]

7. K&R.. he not may be THE DB of the day.. but "ENGAGE" WITH LYING SOCIOPATHIC

DOUCHEBAGS? Who caused the damn thing and then goes out with the KKK on Sunday to Protest what he(cruz)engineered?!

I don't think so.. you don't negotiate with Teaorrists. End of story. Fucking don't give them any credibility.

Panetta.. blah blah blabber blabber blabber.

thanks Trumad

[Scuba]

9. +1

[cali]

10. for sure, but lord he's got a lot of company.

[Enthusiast]

12. Has already expressed his desire

to cut social security and medicare. Asshole, Democrat or not.

[bemildred]

13. I don't think Panetta is really in a position to instruct Obama about politics. nt