All Obama All The Time

We are back to the Obama administration’s original theory of governance, “All Obama, all the time.” Having basked on the spotlight during his rather long State of the Union Speech, Obama addressed the Baltimore conference of Republican members of Congress with yet another familiar excuse, it’s all George W. Bush’s fault.

In one year in office he has learned nothing or, if he has, the lessons have been dismissed as irrelevant to his mission of “transforming” a nation that is far more focused on just surviving the worst Recession/Depression since the 1930s.

Obama seems mystified that, with the greatest majority in Congress in decades, he is unable to get Democrats to coalesce behind his major initiatives such as healthcare “reform.” Republicans wisely decided to avoid being a part of this debacle and have since been labeled “the Party of no.” Sometimes, the right answer is no.

In other parts of the world, our system of government is baffling, particularly for the way it deliberately slows the passage of various legislative proposals. Writing recently in El Mundo, a leading newspaper in Spain, Prof. Rafael Navarro-Valls, said, “The problem, it seems to me, is that we should first consider the very system of power in America. When speaking of the U.S. President as the most powerful man in the world, one forgets the rules of the political circus in which he functions.”

“America produced a political system that is burdened and slowed down by a game of opposing powers,” said Navorro-Valls, who noted that this was intentional on the part of the Founding Fathers who had “fears of kings and tyrants.”

I watched it on CSpan and was amazed at 0bama’s menacing aloofness. HE used the cameras to his benefit but chided the Republicans for doing the same. He used many of the Saul Alinsky Rules. I think “we” [probably me] should write Congressional leaders and ask them to get the “Conservative Rules for Radicals” [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256403/posts] into the hands of Republicans so that Republicans can either notate for the record which of Saul’s Rules was being used, OR use the same rules in their “on the record remarks” in response to Democrats.

ESPECIALLY do I like this one:
4. “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

*Given that Statists seemingly have no moral code, this would appear to be a good tactic for them. But in reality, they do have ‘rules’ – rules they want everyone else to live by, but not themselves – Statist’s are nothing if not hypocrites.

**Therefore, we Conservatives should insist that the Statists ‘lead by example’ – live by their own set of stupid rules and admonitions.

*** If they favor disarming the law-abiding [gun control], they should first give up their guns and security personnel and proudly announce that they are ‘disarmed’.

****They want to screw the achievers with high taxes, they should eagerly pay extra.

*****They want the rest of us to “go green”, fine let them give up their mansions and live in an Environmentally friendly cardboard shack somewhere first.

Of course the Congress peoplw will want to “clean up the language” so that it’s acceptable to the Congressional Record. LOL

The party of “no”.

I like that.

Someone should do a cartoon of mothers pushing shopping carts through the supermarket with kids in the baskets reaching for things and crying because Mommy says, “No.” The kids are, of course, Democrats. Conservatives are the adults.

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