Posted on 11/23/2013 6:31:33 AM PST by mandaladon
For concision and precision in describing Barack Obama’s suddenly ambivalent relationship with his singular — actually, his single — achievement, the laurels go to Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.).
After Obama’s semi-demi-apology for millions of canceled insurance policies — an intended and predictable consequence of his crusade to liberate Americans from their childish choices of “substandard” policies sold by “bad apple” insurers — Scalise said Obama is like someone who burns down your house. Then shows up with an empty water bucket. Then lectures you about how defective the house was. What is now inexplicably called Obama’s “fix” for the chaos he has created is surreal. He gives you permission to reoccupy your house — if you can get someone to rebuild it — but for only another year.
At least he has banished boredom from millions of lives. Although probably not from his.
The place to begin understanding the unraveling of his presidency is page 274 of “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama.” The author, David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, quotes Valerie Jarrett, perhaps Obama’s closest and longest-serving adviser, on her hero’s amazingness:
“He knows exactly how smart he is. . . . I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. . . . He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do. He would never be satisfied with what ordinary people do.”
Leave aside the question of whether someone so smitten can be in any meaningful sense an adviser. About what can such a paragon as Obama need advice? (Although he did recently say, “What we’re also discovering is that insurance is complicated to buy.” Just to buy.) It is, however, fair to note that what ordinary people ordinarily do is their jobs, competently.
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So George Will is saying that Obama and the Democrats are destroying the country with a catastrophic law. As the country becomes more and more outraged, Obama responds with unconstitutional fixes which he has no legal power to implement.
Somehow, all of this is the fault of the Republicans for not speaking up loud enough. How about the media speaking up a little louder?
To borrow the libtards’ ignorant chant: “This is what tyranny looks like”!
G. Will tells never explains how Obama is unraveling.
The media is to this situation as a sheepdog who's in cohoots with the wolves.
I remember Reagan's argument for line-item veto. Looks like even he made some mistaken political judgments, considering who his successor is. I give credit to Will for making the conceptual connection as it is the first time I've seen the analogy.
Millions of people are about to find out how “smart” (NOT) Obama is...and they’re not going to like it.
That's not good enough for you? Personally, I think it is, though yet to be proved if the media is able to gussy up some Iranian nuclear deal flub into Nobel Peace Prize fodder.
John Roberts could have prevented this mess and its disastrous consequences. History will hold him accountable for his complicity with Obama.
He may have been elected...twice...but he has never been a President.
He is a charlatan and flim-flam man who is and has been wholly dedicated to fundamentally changing this republic. It is why he was elected, it is why the establishment DNC and progressives got behind him. They recognized that the time may have come that they could put forward such an individual, completely unknown to most Americans, and basically razzle dazzle them, and shame them, into voting for him. And they did.
Now we are all living with the consequences as all of the illusions and all of the covers come off and most Americans are finally seeing him for what he is...which many of us knew and tried to warn about.
Barack Hussein Obama hates the traditional American system of governance. He hates the traditional American way of life. And he is willing to tell any lie to keep people from understanding it, despite his actions. He believes all Americans have a debt to pay to him and all the “down trodden,” masses he wants to make us believe we have trampled on to get to the prosperity that we have heretofore enjoyed. He believe we all need to be punished for his misconceptions...even his bedazzled followers, as they are now finding out.
When anyone with a clear and open mind knows that the very opposite is true. Except when defending liberty, the US people and government have been the most charitable nation in this earth’s history. And even then, we have been so to those enemies we have defeated...just ask the Germans and Japanese.
So, his “Presidency,” is not unraveling...it is just being revealed for what it is, and always has been.
America at the crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
Obama’s so-called “Phony” Scandals
http://www.jeffhead.com/phonyscandals.htm
I was in the coal business when Jimmah Cahtah got his ass kicked.
I can’t tell you how glad we were when the Gipper took office.
George loves the word “smitten”. He uses it a lot. It has an elitist, antique connotation to it. It sounds so “conservative”. As in George Will was smitten with Obama when he invited him to his house for cocktails before the election.
That’s the bottom line but I usually expect Will to expound a bit more on a topic than just one sentence.
George Will was AWOL when Ted Cruz was standing against this POS, Marxist, train wreck.
I firmly believe, from his actions and demeanor that day, that John Roberts was coerced and black mailed into the vote he made. I believe that the tentacles of the PRISM program the NSA has been running on all Americans run deep...and that this Presidency uses them...often.
This does not necessarily excuse Roberts...but it makes it more understandable.
Would to God that we had more Patrick Henry’s, or more Nathan Hales. And we do...our military proves it almost every day...but wee need them in Washington DC.
The Progressive Liberal Train Wreck
http://www.freewebs.com/jeffhead/trainwreck.htm
This appearing in the Washington Post, heretofore an unabashed Obama cheerleader, brings back memories of this famous quote:
“If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.”
– Lyndon Johnson, February 27, 1968
our military proves it almost every day
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That too is eroding away as Obama continues to purge senior officers who are not totally committed to his agenda. The ongoing purges are well documented.
Republican’s are afraid come out and clearly call Obama a LIAR!
They CAN do that without ever using the word.
When Obama trotts out the scare tactic about “not being able to pay our debts”, it’s up to Republicans to come out, in force, and loudly explain,
“The President is WRONG about America’s financial ability to pay it’s debt!”
“Every month the Treasury takes in TEN TIMES the revenue necessary to service our debt!”
“Do you believe Obama doesn’t know that?”
“Or, do you believe he is INTENTIONALLY MISLEADING the American people, to gain support for his destructive policies?”
I have an idea about how "smart" he is:
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