Posted on 04/18/2013 1:26:26 PM PDT by jazusamo
I wonder why President Obama feels he has the right to be outraged when legislators don't automatically roll over to his policy demands. I suspect that his moral indignation is more about personally losing than it is about policy issues themselves.
For indeed, President Obama was obviously furious when his gun control bill failed to muster sufficient votes to pass the Senate. Politico reported, "More than anything, it was an emotional blow to Obama, who was as irritated at the four members of his own party as he was at the 90 percent of Republicans who defeated the bill."
Politico revealed that an administration official said Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's refusal to support the bill especially rankled Obama because she "refused to go along with the bill even after White House chief of staff Denis McDonough visited her office to make Obama's case on Tuesday."
Do you see clues to Obama's mindset here? How dare a member of a coequal branch of government, especially one in his own party, defy Obama's wishes and refuse to succumb to his fabled powers of persuasion?
Politico would have us believe that the impetus for Obama's emotional investment in the bill was that he was "shaken to the core by the massacre of 26 innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School." He was allegedly so upset that he "broke his own informal 'Obama Rule' — of never leaning into an issue without a clear path to victory."
I'm not buying any of it. I don't believe that Obama was any more personally shaken by Sandy Hook than he was by the Gosnell abortion clinic infanticide atrocity. What I do know is that Obama is a leftist gun control zealot who seizes on crises as opportunities to advance unpopular policies.
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About 10% of us are so conditioned to media driven pollsters that we won't give them the answer they want to hear no matter what. That's actually encouraging. Only 5% of Americans were initially supportive of the American Revolution.
Where did that led Louis XIV - Louis lost his head and later his wife did too.
He really is a lightweight summer suit, isn’t he? Now his fans know it as well, even if they won’t admit it.
And it looks like the economy is already tired again. I wish it were not so bit I’m afraid it is.
The economy is tired of not having a national vision and leadership. We have a loser for a leader and we have become losers with him. Moreover, he is throwing the game on purpose because he is playing for the other team.
I wonder when all this is going to become obvious to even the stupid class?
Meanwhile gun sales went through the roof!
Obama is an actor who can play to any audience at any time as fits his purpose and those of his enablers. As is the situation with Hollywood and it’s actors and actresses these people are narcissists who have an audience/public in their hands. Obama and his mesmerized audience are part of Lincoln’s admonition about being fooled. He is a good talker though with his Mussolini chin up display.
King 0bama can coitus himself. We don’t need his type.
Looked and sounded more like The Fuhrer, IMO. Ya think?
Obama was outraged at not getting what he wanted: limits on the civil, unalienable rights of Americans.
He was NOT outraged at:
1. Fast n Furious.
2. Benghazi
3. Gosnell trial
4. Black Panthers at the polls
5. His minister and personal mentor blaming America for 9/11
...this list could go on for a while, but it let’s a person into the mind of the man.
Is the first time ANY democrat senator did not fall into line?
He kinda came close in the first debate but never carried through.
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