When President Barack Obama used those words to reply to Republican objections to the massive spending bill working its way through Congress, he did much more than deliver a good laugh line and declare the GOP proposals irrelevant.
Obama also signaled to us all that the campaign talk about bipartisanship and “a new way” was just the clever rhetoric of a highly choreographed campaign.
“I won” is the confident declaration of a leader who doesn’t need his opponents’ approval or votes. “I won” is a little extra measure of contempt, though surely delivered with a grin. “I won” means the Republicans lost and they had better get used to being ignored.
It is also a tremendously liberating and unmistakable message to the GOP as its House wing gathers on retreat this weekend. They don’t have to worry about being accused by the president’s wall-to-wall admirers in the mainstream media of a grumpy, “old politics” attachment to partisanship in Washington’s new era.
Obama brought the curtain down on the 48-hour era of bipartisanship with those two words...
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