Posted on 11/17/2013 11:17:06 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
".....Having authored an inspirational politics, President Barack Obama’s difficulties are spawning a new fashion for perspiration. Given its limited powers, the strength of the US presidency derives largely from its occupant’s credibility.......
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......The contagion is starting to spread to his own party. Fearful of losing their seats next year, Democrats are defecting in growing numbers on a widening range of issues, from the Middle East to Obamacare. Last week 39 Democrats joined Republicans in voting to suspend an important chunk of the law. More are planning to do so in the Senate. Until recently, Mr Obama had a reasonable chance of passing a big immigration reform this year. The Senate passed a bill last summer and there were stirrings in the House of Representatives. Last week John Boehner, the House speaker, put paid to those hopes. Nothing will happen in 2013, he said. Prospects for an overhaul before next year’s midterm elections are slim.
Mr Obama’s trade agenda is also starting to look parlous at a time when both his big initiatives are approaching crunch moments. His ability to wrest concessions from his Pacific and European partners will hinge on whether Congress will give him fast track negotiating authority, which would allow him to submit any deal to a straight up or down vote. The odds Congress will grant him that are deteriorating – Democrats are his staunchest opponents. The same applies to hopes of a decent interim deal with Iran when talks resume in Geneva this week. There is no big issue, foreign or domestic, on which Mr Obama can confidently pledge to deliver. Congress is itching to shoot things down.
If this sounds too gloomy, consider Mr Obama’s second term record to date. With the exception of having stared down Republicans last month over their threat of a default, he has fallen at almost every hurdle. This year began with attempts to impose tougher checks on gun buyers following the massacre of 20 children in a Connecticut school. When the initiative began to falter, Mr Obama put his authority on the line. The bill was defeated. It has been much the same ever since, from his request for authority to strike Syria to prospects of a fiscal deal. Talk of an initiative on climate change is a memory.
There is little reason to be confident Mr Obama’s power will rally sharply from this nadir. Robert Frost once summed up in three words what he had learned about life. “It goes on,” said the poet. At the moment that looks like the best that can be forecast for Mr Obama’s presidency.
Failing is “GOOD” though it is no guarantee that Obama won’t recover. Remember who the voters and politicians are who supported him
FAILED is great. Then maybe we can get something done. We’ll pay a price for Obama’s policies (I was furloughed with no back pay), but we need to bring down “The Red House of Cards” ASAP.
The event that started Obama’s fall from the grace of the elitists was the failed push for more gun control. Obama thought he was bigger and badder than the NRA.
He was wrong.
This post almost makes me want to pay for a subscription to a publication whose name is misspelled in the advertisement?
Uh, no.
This post almost makes me want to pay for a subscription to a publication whose name is misspelled in the advertisement?
Uh, no.
Yes. My fingers failed me.
Given its limited powers, the strength of the
US presidency derives largely from its
occupant’s credibility
Good for you. /s
1. Commander in Chief. Well, he's been a boon to the drone industry, at least. And now they stock lacy panties in men's sizes in every Commmissary on every military base in the world! And the rights of loyal gay Americans like Bradley Manning (or is it Chelsea yet?) have been promoted. All of that's got to be better than actually winning battles and stuff (and never mind about the ROE in Afghanistan - sheesh, everybody's a critic).
2. Getting the Executive Department heads on record. He's been marvelous! Well, except for that Fast and Furious thing the Justice Department did that has left hundreds of Mexicans dead that he never knew about and the systematic IRS abuses that nobody told him about and that awful Youtube film that the State Department did tell him was responsible for the Benghazi thing only they were wrong and didn't tell him about that, and - gosh, what else? The prosecution for vote tampering that the Justice Department dropped against the Black Panthers, that nobody told him about? The complete and utter failure of Health and Human Services to construct a website for $600 million that a group of junior high-school students could have constructed in a weekend? Well, somebody did finally tell him about that one, at least.
3. Reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States. Nothing to report here yet although Chelsea Manning is waiting.
4. Makes treaties - well, nothing in writing yet although the U.S. is in awfully good straits with the Muslim Brotherhood these days. Moamar Gadafi isn't around to disapprove anymore and Hosni Mubarak may be off his ventilator any time now. We're about to embark on a treaty with Iran over nuclear weapons they only want for peaceful purposes and gracious, has he ever made friends with Israel and Great Britain! It was probably the iPod. What a guy!
5. Appoint ambassadors - Stevens was great until he was ambushed and murdered - appoint Justices of the Supreme Court - hey, why not a few radical feminist Marxists? Our diversity is our strength! What else? Other officials, fill up vacancies, blah blah blah...
6. State of the Union. Has anybody ever read from a Teleprompter like this guy?
7. I'll quote the last on directly: he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed... Well, heck yes, except for the Black Panther prosecution and the IRS oversight and the sole-source award of the 0bamacare website and the implementation of 0bamacare itself - say, what sections of that one has Dear Leader said are "operative" this week and which ones has he decided are no longer operative, at least until he decides that they are?
Well, there we have it. Not all students can have a report card full of A's and B's, you know. This one? Well, if this were a hundred years ago he'd be in Detention having his knuckles whacked with a ruler but we're better than that these days. We need to stop with the partisan bickering and appreciate Mr. 0bama for what he really is. Well, better not. That would be racist.
Two observations. First, the 2014 election will be a non-player for the President (no one will want him to come and campaign for them). It lessens his value to the party.
Second, if you were a cabinet officer or insider....you’d wonder what the heck you were supporting and retire early from this administration. Who comes in and replaces them? Young and more naive people....who are the only players desiring this item on their resume.
The real losers for the remaining three years...are journalists. They lost their gimmick.
I don’t think Obama “authored” inspirational politics or anything else...he looked from the very beginning like a shill. Most of us here saw it immediately.
Last week on Charlie Rose, a British actor was talking about OBama, called him “an actor.”
Reagan was an actor, but much more.
As predicted. You just can’t pick a “Community Organizer” who has socialistic inspired ideas and ideals and delusions of grandeur, dwells in la-la land and was pushed in to presidency by who knows whom, probably by money bag Gyoergy Soros better known as Gorge Soros. But so it goes, in the end Socialism never has or ever will work and invariably is doomed to failure.
His father was NOT an immigrant to the United States. 
Who was it that cut future funding for Medicare by $575 billion?
Who was it that moved Medicare Trust Funds out of the "trust box" and into the General Revenue, replacing them with Government I.O.U.s? Who was it that expanded Medicare and Medicaid to cover many, many more people than it was originally designed to cover?
The plan included doctors and hospitals, and nursing, laboratory, and dental services; it was dubbed "National Health Insurance." Furthermore, medical insurance benefits for needy people were to be financed from Federal revenues. 
Medicare extended health coverage to almost all Americans aged 65 or older. About 19 million beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare in the first year of the program. Medicaid provided access to health care services for certain low-income persons and expanded the existing Federal-State welfare structure that assisted the poor. So DEMOCRATS ... SHUT UP!!! You have no integrity!!!
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