Posted on 01/25/2015 12:45:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
THE talk up in Boston is all about deflation while the talk down here is all about inflation.
Our sleek, techie president, whose battery dies faster than an iPhone’s, was fully charged Tuesday night for the State of the Union.
He was so puffed up, with such a bristling sense of self, that it was hard to believe this was the same guy who spent the last year clenched like a fist, beset by ISIS, beheadings and Ebola, shunned by his own party and slammed by the other party in the fall election.
The murmur went up from grateful Democrats gathered at the Capitol: “Wow, he’s got a pulse.”
Proving once again that he is a different kind of cat, Barack Obama is oddly pumped by his party’s defeat. Even in the House chamber, surrounded by hundreds of people and watched by millions, he seemed to delight in his detachment as he laid down his own markers to drive up his own numbers.
He doesn’t mind splendid isolation. He really thinks it’s splendid. He’s free to revert to being the consummate outsider who doesn’t see himself in the context of a system.
He likes the game better when he’s up against an opposing team. To him, Harry Reid was as big a problem as Mitch McConnell.
Now it’s easier for him to see who he is and where he stands vis-à-vis the Republicans because he doesn’t have to make intellectual compromises or negotiate the jagged shoals of the old-school Democratic Party. Now he can define himself against modern conservatives such as Rand Paul and Scott Walker....
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I think 0bama has come to believe that he really is the person he plays on t.v.
‘’Wow, he’s got a pulse.’’ So Obama has finally decided to emerge from his coma, just in time to enthusiastically propose far-left policies that Hillary Clinton will have to enthusiastically endorse or lose critical left-wing support for her presidential nomination.
Yet by endorsing such far-left policies, Hillary will not be able to win the presidency, which will be decided by the 90 percent of voters who aren’t far-left Democrats.
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