Quite right. This has come up before, and it's never made any sense -- Republicans can tell Americans that President Obama is a radical socialist who hates free-enterprise capitalism, or they can tell us he's a Wall Street shill, but when they make both arguments at the same time, it's awfully difficult to take them seriously. Indeed, it reinforces the thesis that, even now, the right still doesn't know how it wants to criticize the president.
But I also believe there's another angle to this to keep in mind.
For good or ill, Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to try to reach compromises with congressional Republicans, frequently offering to accept GOP policy goals that congressional Democrats find abhorrent.
But because so many congressional Republicans have become post-policy nihilists, GOP officials not only reject attempts at compromise, they often announce their opposition to whatever it was they urged Obama to do in the first place.
Can a president be a radical socialist and a Wall Street shill? - The Maddow Blog
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