“One of the really big stories that we saw in your interview, but also in the past few days with the president, is that a very significant historic election occurred, everybody looked at the president like, ‘What does this change for you?’ and he has made it clear . . . that this will not change his method of operation a bit.”
So says Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan. The consequences of the president’s obstinacy are likely to be frustrating, she predicted on Face the Nation. “[It] means he’s not going to change his relationship with the Congress, which means more of the past six years.”
Remarking on the president’s interview with Schieffer, Noonan added: “Also, I think the president has taken to putting a lot of padding in his sentences. . . . That’s what you do when you’re running out the clock, and there’s a certain running-out going on.”
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