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?
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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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"Graceful"? That snarling Nazified hate monger has never been graceful. He has been a cancer on humanity. He is Jimmy Carter's stupidity squared.
Nasty vile arrogant jackass who was never right about anything in his life.
Some of it can be undone with a pen. The betrayal of Israel cannot be and will have huge consequences over many years. The left and Muslims now have the tool to isolate and sanction Israel pretty much at will.
“are like tenants who trash a place as they are being evicted.”
I said this the other day on FR!
https://twitter.com/mattbai/with_replies
His Twitter feed, to watch the fun from exploding #TheResistance/#TheWeepsistance heads. 😁
What an ass.
When you take into account the fact that, to a Muslim, putting the bottom of your shoe on something (other than the floor) is considered the highest insult, these gestures by the Kenyan Muslim make perfect sense. It’s another way of him giving a big “FU” to America.
Yea, well, Trump is our FU to him and his kind.
Thanks.
Found the right link and it’s now working.
Who would be doing an inventory, and when? I wouldn’t put it past the Obamas to corrupt *that*.
“Our last true President.”
And the finest of the 20th century.
And one the greatest ever.
What the hell is the matter with this country that we went from that to Obama in just 20 years?
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