Posted on 01/05/2017 2:39:14 PM PST by Rennes Templar
I love a good real estate analogy, so naturally I had to admire the way Erick Erickson, the conservative blogger, recently described the last-minute flurry of actions emanating from the Obama White House. “Obama and John Kerry,” Erickson tweeted, “are like tenants who trash a place as they are being evicted.”
Except, in this case, the analogy is a few degrees off. The president isn’t really trashing anything.
It’s more like he’s hurriedly adding the bold, modernist touches his landlord always resisted — repainting walls, recessing lights, tearing up carpets and restaining floors — in hopes that the guy who’s moving in next won’t have the time or tenacity required to undo them.
Does Obama have the right in these waning days to govern like there’s no tomorrow (because, of course, there isn’t)? Does he retain the authority to rebuke Israel and smack the Russians, to protect vast expanses of public land while filling out scores of vacant seats on government commissions?
~snip~
Because if there’s one thing Obama should have learned from his futile strategy of governing by “phone and pen” — if there’s one thing that should be clear as Republicans prepare to obliterate much of his second term in a matter of hours — it’s that you can’t build anything lasting by executive fiat. Sooner or later, whatever you achieve with the flourish of a single pen is erased with about the same casual effort.
What history will most remember, unfortunately, is that you refused to stand down when the verdict was in. That’s no way for an otherwise graceful president to go out.
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Very strange metaphor.
Who does that?
That’s no way for an otherwise graceful president to go out.
For God’s sake, just GO!
Linky no worky.
Trashing?? He’s burning down the house!!
Obama is in that new HGTV series called “Flip that White House”, and he is desperately trying to keep it the White Hut
Anyone who has paid attention over the last eight years would expect no less from this spoiled brat masquerading as a man.
And meanwhile the establishment republican’s sit on their hands and let it happen.
Just a juvenile delinquent who wants to spray paint his name on your garage door.
He doesn’t care how much work it took you to earn or buy that garage door, nor your pride in having it clean; or if you don’t especially care Thursday at 3 pm if it’s clean but that it represents a piece of normalcy for you. Nor does he care how much (work/money) it might take to fix it after he’s done his voodoo brilliance. What HE knows is, it’s better with his name spray painted on it. Your life is better with his intrusion into it. And you get the opportunity to see things his way and in this case, live with them that way.
Odumbo needs to be walked out immediately in handcuffs before he can do any more damage. Take the power of the pen and the phone away from him. He could start a major war within the next two weeks, who would stop him?
Our last true President. The office of true American Non-Globalist tool President has been vacant for 28 years, and is about to be filled.
Is this really from Yahoo? They found someone Sober? huh,who would of thought.
I hope they remember what happened the last time a Democrat left the White House, and this time they make sure someone inventories the china and silverware before the Obamas get out the door.
I was surprised too. They are the largest mainstream online news source, and the most liberal.
I think you just described his fondest aspiration.
Remember, this is the guy that bowed to other nation’s leaders with glee.
Now when we have a new one here, he tries to stab him in the back figuratively.
Obama is an enemy of the state.
Obama is an enemy of the state.
He sees himself as the epitome of the best possible State leader.
He sees himself as defending all the glorious things he has done to build up the State.
He is the enemy of the U.S.A. and the Constitution, and any limits on government power.
He is an enemy of the state.
This goes beyond Conservative vs Leftist constructs.
The man is essentially a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and has aided al Qaeda and ISIS.
He is an enemy of the state.
I don’t give a rip what he thinks. Murderers think what they did was justified.
His actions and their actions aren’t justified.
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