In the New York Times this past Sunday, opinion columnist Maureen Dowd wrote a scathing review of President Obama called ” No Bully in the Pulpit”, citing the Administration’s failure at getting gun-control legislation through the Senate last week.
“Unfortunately, he still has not learned how to govern,” she writes. “How is it that the president won the argument on gun safety with the public and lost the vote in the Senate? It’s because he doesn’t know how to work the system. And it’s clear now that he doesn’t want to learn, or to even hire some clever people who can tell him how to do it or do it for him.”
On Obama’s legislative aide, Dowd writes: “Obama has Miguel Rodriguez, an arm-twister so genteel that The Washington Post’s Philip Rucker wrote recently that no one in Congress even knows who he is.”
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