It is not the first time, nor the last, that Congress has spoken out against presidential foreign policy, so stop pretending that it is. Both sides have done it (as recently as Pelosi condemning Bush, but you guys were silent there). The point of the toon is that Obama is the last person to cry about Congress taking action without his consent; it reeks of hypocrisy. If he had been more centrist and working with Congress, instead of constantly beating them about the face because they didn’t agree with the Grand Leader’s Plans (per their constituents wishes, I might add), they might even be backing him on some of this stuff. Or he might have grounds to condemn them. But he’s not. He’s the most partisan hack Washington has seen in a great while, and Karma is coming back to bite him.
It is not the first time, nor the last, that Congress has spoken out against presidential foreign policy, so stop pretending that it is. Both sides have done it (as recently as Pelosi condemning Bush, but you guys were silent there). The point of the toon is that Obama is the last person to cry about Congress taking action without his consent; it reeks of hypocrisy. If he had been more centrist and working with Congress, instead of constantly beating them about the face because they didn’t agree with the Grand Leader’s Plans (per their constituents wishes, I might add), they might even be backing him on some of this stuff. Or he might have grounds to condemn them. But he’s not. He’s the most partisan hack Washington has seen in a great while, and Karma is coming back to bite him.