If there was ever any doubt that the current occupant of the Oval Office is tone-deaf when it comes to the voters, and it wasn’t dispatched with voters who understand perfectly what he is trying to do, there is this gem in the New York Daily News:
Obama tells GOP it’s bad time for ‘no’ as meetings with Republicans loom
No, I didn’t make that headline up.
Ahead of his meeting with the Republican leaders this week, President Obama on Sunday warned them the era of just say no is over.
Why? Because he won in 2008, that’s why.
The GOP opposed nearly every initiative Obama and the Democrats offered – and sometimes passed – over the last two years.
And the failures to pass the ones that failed had nothing to do with the Republicans, who didn’t have the numbers to stop any of these travesties anyway. It’s a nice fiction that they failed because of the obstructionist Republicans, but people are paying attention now, and they know that the real problems lay in the straitjacket wing of the Democratic Party. (Thank God for those nutbars.)
They were so successful at casting those policies as job-killing bailouts that were deadly to the economy that voters on Election Day still believed – by a 2-to-1 margin – that the economy was shrinking, bailouts were ongoing and their taxes were heading up – even though the opposite was true.
Sure the opposite was true. Just tell the businesses that are looking at the costs of “going green”, or all the waivers to the Obamacare requirements being handed out. People aren’t as stupid as the Administration and the usual suspects would like to believe.
With the GOP gaining greater say in the Senate and taking over the House, Obama said they’d have to play the game differently over the next two years.
He’s right. They have the numbers to actually stop some of this foolishness and actually do some responsible and Constitutional things. And what’s more, the voters who put them there will expect them to do just that.
“Campaigning is different than governing,” Obama told reporters as he flew home from his 10-day Asia trip, suggesting Republicans will walk back some of their more adamant rhetoric in coming days as they take stock of reality.
Not that you’d know it from the way that the President has acted in the time since he actually took the oath of office and was expected to actually do the work. The “Slurpee” talk was wasn’t governing, although it paid lip service to it. And speech after speech after speech after speech trying to convince anyone who would listen that Obamacare was a great thing wasn’t leading, either. But getting this kind of lecture from someone whose agenda was “Shellacked” a few weeks ago is both historic and unprecedented. Especially when many of the new office holders specifically ran against Teh Won’s agenda. Maybe if he continues to tell the voters that they’re stupid because they don’t want what he is peddling, he can make himself believe he is the King of Siam, and he can be followed everywhere by a retinue of royal retainers whose only duty is to carry his ego and the shadow he believes he casts behind him, preventing both from ever touching the ground. I used to wonder what disaster would befall us when reality came and parked itself on his puny little chest and refused to go away. Now I fear what will happen if he ever rejoins the rest of us here in the real world.
Momma told me some folks just never learn.
Did your momma say “bless his heart…” as a way of noting less than magnificent brains?
Why, yes, I think she would. Sorta in a patronizing way.
But not with a Southern drawl like Paula Deen would.
My mom is a Yankee from Yonkers, who worked very hard to rid herself of any/all dialects.
But, but… He WON!
After two freakin’ years he still has not realized the difference between campaigning and governing. That shit is too hard. Making tough choices is too hard. Governing, leading, being presidential, is too freakin’ hard!
Hey, watch this drive!
He wanted the position and the privilege, but NOT the actual responsibility. That’s too much like work, like a “REAL” job, and he’s got no experience in that arena. He’s still a freakin’ “Empty Suit”. The kid’s got nothin’.
He DOES like sportin’ about in Air Force-One, just not what has to happen at the end of the trip, that ‘diplomacy & shit’…
Asshole…
Ignorant = being without knowledge or information and therefore having some level of excuse for the present condition of things. Sometimes condition is merely a temporary situation because there was no ‘teacher’ present.
Stupid = willfully ignorant and therefore having no excuse for the persistent refusal to learn. Oftentimes includes an attitude that is tied closely to arrogance or contempt for the ‘teacher.’
He believed his own press.
Good post BIC.
That’s why its important for the new Repub house to revoke ObamaCare immediately.
Yes, it will probably be rejected by the Senate, but maybe not. There’s a lot of Senators up for reelection in 2012 that are in states where they would have lost had they been running in 2010.
But even if the Senate votes against the House and retains ObamaCare, put them on the record doing so. Make them play defense. We know Obama will veto it.
I want Obama to be forced to veto Obamacare.
Because I’m still convinced the more people learn about this abomination, the more people will realize what a fraud Obama really is.
I want Obama to be forced [to veto the attempt at revoking] Obamacare.
(Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) — In his biography of Obama, “The Bridge,” David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, quotes White House senior adviser and longtime Obama friend Valerie Jarrett: “I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability — the extraordinary, uncanny ability — to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/15/obama-advisor-he-is-bored-to-death-and-just-too-talented-to-do-what-ordinary-people-do/#comments
I think this speaks volumes about the arrogance of this POS. No he didnt get the message because he thinks he is better than all of us.
Nice post.
How ironic that Obama should talk about “Campaigning is different from governing”, since he has yet to exhibit any sign that he understands that difference and spends as much time away from the White House and on the campaign trail as he possibly can.
I suspect that he thought that once he was in office he could leave everything up to Congress and his myriad advisers and simply continue to appear before and mesmerize his adoring public as the embodiment of the perfection of his administration.
You nailed the irony, Mainenowandthen. I’ll never forget the disconnect that hit me when Obama was running for office and challenged with questions about whether he had enough executive experience to be POTUS. His snide answer always related to his experience as head of the campaign for him. *now very revealing*
I’ve got a business degree and theology degree and years experience managing teams and big projects in both information systems and church-parish ministries, but I would never say that I had ‘executive’ experience. After observing this guy’s behaviors, attitudes and responses to the challenges he has faced, it is clear to me that lil’ ole me would have made a better president of the U.S. than he. *Now that’s creepy-scary.*
*God help us!*
You would have my vote. Experience counts.
Too funny! Even before the new folks get seated it is the Dems like Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois who is in “no” mode. She’s a member of the deficit commission and like it or hate it it has some ideas. She is on record as saying it isn’t gonna fly. She also has recommendations for tax increases which can be directly tied to being the opposite of what the mid-terms results declare.
He also spends a lot of time on the golf course and on vacation.
Hey al-Faheed,
You think our muslim “president” will triangulate?
Boehner Files Court Brief Challenging Constitutionality of ObamaCare…
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/16/boehner-files-court-brief-challenging-constitutionality-of-obamacare/
Good news Tex. Though I would love the drones to go through the Death Panels.
Hitler chimes in. Beyond hilarious
Podesta advises Obama to ignore voters, bypass Congress through agency action
posted at 8:45 am on November 17, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Remember when the term “unitary executive” got thrown around a lot by the Left as a way to argue that the Bush administration thought itself above the law and above Congress? The criticism fundamentally misunderstood the phrase, but that didn’t keep progressives from arguing that a Republican President was making himself into a dictator through bureaucratic fiat. By golly, the Left — and especially the Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta — didn’t cotton to the notion that a President could bypass Congress and the normal checks and balances of the federal government.
So when a President acts through executive orders in an area that the Constitution clearly leaves to the executive branch (prosecution of war), that’s a nascent dictatorship. When a President acts through EOs and tells executive-branch agencies to circumvent Congress in areas of its jurisdiction, well, that’s just “mov[ing] the country forward.” Good to know for future reference. Thanks, Mr. Podesta!
Not only is this a work of stunning hypocrisy, it’s a dangerous piece of political advice. Democrats had the field to themselves over the last two years and pushed their agenda over the objections of voters around the country. That arrogant disregard for the electorate is the reason why House Democrats will be voting for a Minority Leader today instead of a Speaker in January. If Obama takes Podesta’s advice and doubles down on arrogance and high-handedness after the voters sent Washington a split government in an overwhelming, historic wave, Democrats will likely lose the Senate and the White House in 2012 as well.
Besides, agencies without funding can’t do much to push anything forward. The House controls the budgets of these agencies. If push comes to shove, the only operations the EPA and the other agencies that receive those orders will fulfill are turning out the lights as the last person leaves the building.
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/11/17/podesta-advises-obama-to-ignore-voters-bypass-congress-through-agency-action/
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You would have my vote. Experience counts.
Mainnowandthen, Thanks! I would not ever run. It’s sad, but I simply don’t have the need nor would I subject my family to the abuse.
I’m getting more involved in local politics and there are a group of folks who are trying to get one of our colleagues to run for city council. He simply refuses and his wife is adamant about it… same reason as mine. They simply refuse to submit themselves to the public scrutiny and abuse.
How truly unfortunate, that potential candidates are so alienated by the modern political process.
But it is sort of a weeding-out process, I guess. To run for office requires a certain mindset and a burning desire to make a difference in “the way things are”. If that determination is not there, then perhaps it is better not to become a part of the maelstrom surrounding elective offices.
Fortunately, there is an alternative for those who are unhappy with the status quo in that we can still write commentary and support candidates who seem to espouse our values in many other ways through volunteerism, etc.
Palin: I Could Beat Obama in 2012…
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/17/palin-i-could-beat-obama-in-2012/#comment-302273
It’s on
As the empire accelerates the decline into ineffectual obscurity, it’s nice to know that the Lecturer in Chief is at the helm.
So where is the post on the Thugs at TSA and the EO that gives them the right to violate the 4th Amendment?
BIC,
Completely off topic, but I saw no contact so I’ll post this here.
An article of interest you might find interesting. You’ll understand why.
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-bizarre-case-of-nietzsche-the-pro-jewish-writer-who-inspired-a-million-anti-semites/#comment-701591
Completely off topic, but I saw no contact so I’ll post this here.
Right above “Recent Comments” in the sidebar.
I’m not sure if you caught this article, but its the best dissection of Obama’s infatuation with himself that I’ve come across. The bottom lines seems to be that he actually believes his own BS.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-narcissus_516686.html
Next step for body scanners could be trains, boats, metro
By Jordy Yager – 11/23/10 02:09 PM ET
The next step in tightened security could be on U.S. public transportation, trains and boats.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists will continue to look for U.S. vulnerabilities, making tighter security standards necessary.
“[Terrorists] are going to continue to probe the system and try to find a way through,” Napolitano said in an interview that aired Monday night on “Charlie Rose.”
“I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there?”
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/130549-next-step-for-body-scanners-could-be-trains-boats-and-the-metro-
Where are all you fucking drones yapping about losing your freedoms? What was it really? Bush didnt take your freedom fast enough? Is that the real reason you hated Bush?
Homeland Security Shutting Down Websites…
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/26/homeland-security-shutting-down-websites/#comment-308319
More Tyranny