…will continue to decline:
The answer to every challenge is to found a new program, borrow billions to run it, hire millions more loyal to the progressive gospel of public employment, and demagogue any who oppose it. The public is starting to see that the president’s ideology is really a mixture of the Ivy League, the left-wing of the Democratic Party, the tired canards of the black caucus, extremist residuals from Rev. Wright and Bill Ayers, and twenty years of university multicultural, utopian pacifist, and moral equivalent indoctrination. His Democratic Party is not one with half the House Democrats and does not appeal to liberal independents. He’s the sort of progressive professor whom the proverbial new student comes home at Thanksgiving to quote to a shocked parent..
Obama can no more adopt a centrist identity that Rev Wright could become a Billy Graham, or Jimmy Carter could pivot like Bill Clinton. Most House Democrats grasp that unwelcome truth and so mightily fear his presence in their districts.
As he says, it’s going to get very ugly.
[Update late afternoon]
President Stuxnet:
In 2008 A.D., a rather inscrutable individual was elected president of the United States and proceeded without delay to covet and acquire a more or less identical distinction, intent on destroying the temple of constitutional liberty under the rubric of a “fundamental transformation.” Of course, there is more to it than simply desiring a historic reputation by whatever means at his disposal. It has become obvious that the president is a confirmed Alinskyite seeking to replace a functioning republic with a socialist mega-state. His leftist friends and mentors, now well-known, along with his policies and activities make this a more than reasonable assumption.
Expect to see a lot more of this in the next two years, as he finally gets the vetting he should have gotten in 2008.
[Bumped]
I really wonder what the next two years will be like. No matter what his approval ratings I don’t see him signing into law the more serious reforms the Tea Party are pushing for, and a veto-proof majority simply isn’t possible, thanks to the Senate’s staggered elections. I just hope some half-assed reform isn’t passed that causes the Tea Party to lose steam going into 2012.
(Which may very well be the strategy of the Republican leadership with Dem collusion)
He’s upset enough apple carts that the repercussions will be an accompaniment for the remainder of his reign.
There’s also ‘low hanging fruit’ that is obviously not “a repeal” but should pass and could probably override a veto – like a hiring and wage freeze for all non-field-agent federal positions of all stripes. Like Bob1 in the other thread, there’s a lot of people that haven’t been paying attention as the feds basically decided to ignore the recession in terms of their own payroll. They spent a lot of money “doing stuff”, but they didn’t do any of the obvious baby steps. And claiming that mid-level bureaucrats need their 4% raise “for the economy” won’t fly far.
He will never be vetted and the real truth will probably never come. Let’s just not do it again.
Ah…let us try not to succumb to ODS here, however. I mean, Obama as “intentionally self-destructing the Republic?” I think that’s a bridge too far for me.
I think Obama (1) was never up to the job, having had no experience in real-world leadership and management, and having had his head stuffed with all kinds of academical nonsense theories from the Ivory Tower, which has never successfully governed anything ever yet, and (2) wasn’t all that interested in the job anyway — the title, the perks, yes, but not the job, and (3) is sufficiently flaccid about his vision that he indeed allowed a bunch of bitter old bulls and biddies and opportunistic Stalinist sodomites, who have kept power within the Democratic Party only because the Democrats believe in seniority and tenure like Medieval Catholics believe in the Transubstantiation, to write vast chunks of the “accomplishments” of his first two years which are the current 600 pound boat anchor around the neck of every Democratic candidate for Congress.
But, really, I don’t thinks he’s malevolent. People like Ayers and Alinsky and very probably Axelrod and Holder are indeed psychopaths who should be deported to the Moon with a 60-day supply of oxygen and a map of water deposits, but I don’t think Obama is one of them. He’s a lover, not a fighter. He loves his ease, the limelight, the Greek columns, the obsequious bootlickery of Congressminions and the snap to attention of the Marine guards, signing his name with a big flourish and a fancy pen, all the good Louis XIV stuff. He probably has a free-floating generic hostility towards true American values, but no more so than any typical product of suburban public schools and a life of ease. (And indeed true American values have always been more valued by frontiersmen than city sybarites.)
In short, I favor seeing Obama as more Mr. Magoo than Morgoth.
Unfortunately, in this case, Mr Magoo’s assininities have consequences.
More Sauron than Morgoth perhaps Carl?
Sauron could appear fair before the fall of Numenor and the failed assault on the undying lands in the far west.
I have always thought that Obama wants the title of FORMER president and all the prestige and (lack of) responsibility that goes with THAT title.
Americans are a group of people who relatively trust and believe in the good of their fellow humans. Of course Americans will have a hard time believing that Obama is malevolently pursuing the downfall of the American economy. Only problem is, if you compared him to someone who WAS intent on imploding the American economy (Cloward-Piven) you’d be hard pressed to find many differences in how they would go about doing it. I don’t think Obama is quite what I would call a patsy. I think he is a bit more complicit than that. I just think that this is all he knows through his Marxist/Kenyan upbringing. He’s part of the playbook because his natural tendencies align themselves with a greater strategy of “fundamentally transforming the United States of America” into a economic fountain for the global community to satiate themselves. The workers of the world will unite, only problem is we are the ones left paying the dues.
apropos former prez – You know he’s thinking if CARTER can do this…
“Medieval Catholics believe in the Transubstantiation”
Carl, you mocking my religious beliefs? Just because Roman Catholic bishops don’t pronounce fatwahs doesn’t mean you can go around dissing modern medievalists.
I hate to nit-pick, but this always bugs me:
“In 2008 A.D., a rather inscrutable individual was elected president of the United States”
This should read, “In A.D. 2008….” A.D. means “Anno Domini” (“in the year of Lord”).
Sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from malice.
Hal Duston Says:
I have always thought that Obama wants the title of FORMER president and all the prestige and (lack of) responsibility that goes with THAT title.
And what do you want to bet that he comes up with a “Seal of the Former President”?