Posted on 01/18/2016 2:40:59 PM PST by John Semmens
Rather than consider the possibility that the sluggish performance of the economy during his presidency may have something to do with his policies, President Obama blamed everything on "the GOP's selfish unwillingness to accept the will of the people and support my agenda."
It is difficult to grasp the President's logic, though, since Congress, both before and after the GOP had the majority, has essentially acquiesced in every one of the President's budget requests and has failed to block any of the Administration's regulatory initiatives or executive actions.
"The GOP leadership in Congress may have funded the programs, but they refused to silence their Party's extremists who continually railed against what they called tyranny," Obama complained. "This undermined the faith of the people in their government and bred a fatal skepticism that questioned the wisdom of an expansive, humane, and nurturing state."
The President acknowledged that "I didn't exploit all of my options to the fullest extent. We let the IRS intimidate conservative opponents of my agenda, but we could've gone further. The FBI has a rich lode of embarrassing information that we did not use as assiduously as we might have. And there were options that I, as Commander-in-Chief could have ordered our military to carry out against these domestic enemies."
In related news, Obama vowed he would veto legislation introduced by House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) that would reduce presidential pensions for those making more than $400,000 per year after leaving office. "Cutting my pension based on the premise that the millions I expect to earn from books and speeches means I don't need the money is unfair," Obama complained. "I earned that pension from eight years of selfless public service. It is not the government's role to supplant the rewards I'm owed for my effort by redistributing public funds due me based on someone else's arbitrary notion about what I don't need. That's socialism. I won't stand for it."
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2016/01/16/ny-dems-demand-conservatives-leave-state/
Obama looks like Mickey Mouse
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