Reid: Obama a lot like those Chilean miners

A better way of putting it is that Harry Reid found himself at the bottom of a big rhetorical hole … and kept digging.  If Obama found himself at the bottom of a hole, he put himself there, didn’t he?  After all, he came off of a big win in 2008 with astronomical approval ratings and huge majorities in Congress.  It sounds more like Obama dug himself a hole by reneging on his campaign promise to be a moderate post-partisan President and pursuing massive spending and government growth, then rolled up his sleeves and continued digging, just as Reid does here, as Jeff Dunetz spotted:

“It was like the Chilean miners, but he, being the man he is, rolled up his sleeves and said ‘I am going to get us out of this hole,’” Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said in Las Vegas on Sunday.

Reid isn’t the only one making comparisons between Obama and the miners rescued after more than two months in a collapsed mine.  Michael Ramirez, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist for Investors Business Daily, has a brilliant take on the comparison today that comes a lot closer to reality than Reid’s analogy does:

Note the title of the piece — a perfect description of Obamanomics in general.

Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives fascinating look at political history.  Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here.  And don’t forget to check out the entire Investors.com site, which has now incorporated all of the former IBD Editorials, while individual investors still exist.

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