Posted on 06/11/2013 9:11:52 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
WASHINGTON (AP) — As a candidate, Barack Obama vowed to bring a different, better kind of leadership to the dysfunctional capital. He'd make government more efficient, accountable and transparent. He'd rise above the "small-ball" nature of doing business. And he'd work with Republicans to break Washington paralysis.
You can trust me, Obama said back in 2008. And — for a while, at least — a good piece of the country did.
But with big promises often come big failures — and the potential for big hits to the one thing that can make or break a presidency: credibility.
A series of mounting controversies is exposing both the risks of political promise-making and the limits of national-level governing while undercutting the core assurance Obama made from the outset: that he and his administration would behave differently.
The latest: the government's acknowledgement that, in a holdover from the Bush administration and with a bipartisan Congress' approval and a secret court's authorization, it was siphoning the phone records of millions of American citizens in a massive data-collection effort officials say was meant to protect the nation from terrorism. This came after the disclosure that the government was snooping on journalists.
Also, the IRS' improper targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status has spiraled into a wholesale examination of the agency, including the finding that it spent $49 million in taxpayer money on 225 employee conferences over the past three years.
At the same time, Obama's immigration reform agenda is hardly a sure thing on Capitol Hill, and debate starting this week on the Senate floor is certain to show deep divisions over it. Gun control legislation is all but dead. And he's barely speaking to Republicans who control the House, much less working with them...
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when they start asking why 0bama isn’t being charged with tax evasion for filing tax returns under someone else’s ssno...
when they point out 0bama’s BC and selective service document is a fraud...
when they demand answers in response to the benghazi revelation that it was supposed to be a kidnap/ransom/exchange...
when they demand why the chinese have been given access, again, to our nuke labs...
etc, etc...
then maybe i’ll buy that they’re ‘taking a blowtorch’ to 0bama’s rep
Not exactly a blow torch. It’s more like a Bic lighter in a wind.
No, sir. The coup had already happened, we are in the midst of a COUNTER coup.
Soon we will see if our effort is successful or not.
“Not exactly a blow torch. It’s more like a Bic lighter in a wind.”
Touche
LOL
I hope they wake up to see Obama would abuse part of the citizenry in a heartbeat. It seems only a matter of time before his plans are in place. Hope a whistleblower/ patriot has the goods on him.
I wish I could wrap my head around these Secret Courts. Did I skip that day in US Gov class?
I'll bet that heat still feels so strange and disconcerting, though. Even a small spark can ignite a blaze, particularly when there are so many combustibles laying around.
AP is crying out, yelling, pleading, begging for Obama to ‘do something’, or else, all is lost!
My my my my.....that bridge is TOAST!
Little Barry’s made himself a powerful enemy.
And apparently they’re out for blood.
Hear, hear!
All we are is a Bic lighter in the wi-ind......or something........
It’s less a blow torch than an appeal to do some minor fixes so that we can elect more Democrats in the mid-term and presidential elections. Hasn’t AP learned anything, or do they need another raid on their records?
Obama is the embodiment of The Peter Principle.................
If a ball of slime vomits in the forest, can anyone smell it?
Its a start—the beginning of the end.
It’s actually a Zippo, but it feels like a blowtorch to one who has never been burned.
Obummer is refining his blame game. Now it's the other two branches of government, not him. This turkey is nothing more than a flimflam artist and will never change but his low info supporters eat this stuff up.
Wouldn't call this a blow torch but it's good to at least see part of the enemedia have something to say about him other than praise.
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