Posted on 05/30/2013 7:46:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
There was a time when Obama couldn’t get a bad headline in this town. Now he’s the new Nixon. I dropped out of writing about US politics three weeks ago to finish a book and, on my return, I discover that everything’s changed. The President has been hit not by one Watergate but by three—Benghazi, the IRS, the DOJ phone records scandal—and even the mainstream media has stopped treating him like the bringer of hope and change predicted in the Bible. He's not a Messiah; he's a very naughty boy.
It’s important to remember that Obama’s second term blues began long before the scandals broke. Although he won the 2012 election, the Democrats failed to take the House, and the Senate remained vulnerable to filibuster. That might not have been such a roadblock to legislation had the Prez not spent the election trashing his opponents, calling the Republicans everything from heartless SOBs to enablers of rape. The result was that he entered his second term despised by much of the Congress and so unable to get much done. Yes, he hardballed the GOP into accepting nominal tax increases, but he failed even to pass even the slenderest of gun control bills. His political capital was exhausted within weeks.
That left Obama with an aura of lonely moral authority. …
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
I look for the mainstream media to recover from their temporary attack of conscience, and begin supporting him again soon. I hope I am wrong, but the media have priors.
I love this article for the Life of Brian quote above all other merits.
Because Obama is spying on them.
They didnt give a crap when it was those Tea Party gun-nut anti-IRS crazies being screwed.
But now they found out that Holder considers THEM ciminals.
That is different.
Um.... Im not sure about that.... They have been very verbal in mocking him publicly on twitter and blogs. I think now it will be a race for them to write the most damning stories they can.
Obama is how you can tell the removal of Nixon was pure politics.
“He “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” observed Chris Matthews, a disenchanted liberal journalist who once said that those speeches sent “a thrill” up his leg.”
Although he won the 2012 election, the Democrats failed to take the House, and the Senate remained vulnerable to filibuster. That might not have been such a roadblock to legislation had the Prez not spent the election trashing his opponents, calling the Republicans everything from heartless SOBs to enablers of rape. The result was that he entered his second term despised by much of the Congress and so unable to get much done.Not to mention that he's a criminal, as is Holder, and (among others of Zero's administration) various IRS thugs. Zero's demagoguery didn't start in 2011, or 2012, it has gone on throughout his faux-professional life.
"I look for the mainstream media to recover from their temporary attack of conscience, and begin supporting him again soon."
They haven't stopped loving him for a second. Any seemingly derogatory comments they have made are pleas for help. They are begging him to get on track and act like the made for television president that they created. They will not turn on their own child.
How true. Tagline-quality material. I would give it four Krauthammers.
They’ve gone from the “Planet saving Lightbringer” to “Well, we don’t think he’s quite as bad as Nixon.”
Still protecting him but now it’s in lowered expectations land.
I wish you were going to be proven wrong, but I doubt it.
I doubt Obama will step down. I doubt he will be impeached.
He will take direction from the same person his mentor Saul Alinsky did.
Obama’s policies are now known as “Dopey and Mangy”. Much more accurate than before.
Vote fraud.
Point blank, that what it was!
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