Obama on the Brink? Yes, but Elected Republicans Must Keep their Boots on the Regime’s Neck

OK, WE'RE RIGHT! ^ | June 4, 2010 | Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge

[OK Right]

Things aren’t coming up roses for Barack Hussein Obama these days. Just the opposite. There’s a lot of “bubbling crude” (thanks, Jed Clampett) in the president’s life, and only some of it is coming up from the Gulf. The rest of the president’s headaches are largely of his own making. Their cause? Hubris, more than anything.

The oil spill is an undeniable disaster that will hurt the Gulf coast and those who live and work there. It also hurts Obama because he took so long to at least pretend he was concerned and ready to help. Don’t believe Farrakhan and Oprah. Just because they call Barry “The Messiah” and “the One,” the president shouldn’t be expected to single-handedly stop the leak. On the other hand, Obama treated the Gulf oil disaster with his usual fecklessness. He vacationed, he golfed, he shot hoops, and he partied. Now his behavior has come back to haunt him. (GW Bush would’ve been in the thick of the muck right away. There’s no doubt that even Bill Clinton would’ve shown more genuine concern for those affected by the spill than has Obama.)

The Obama regime’s tendency to rewrite history doesn’t help the president, either. The Gulf calamity is no exception. To hear Obama’s staff talk about it, they were on it “from Day One.” And yet, the truth – caught on audio and video at various times – is that Obama & Co. have vacillated from wanting to be divorced from the oil well crisis (it happened on BP’s watch; they have to clean it up) to being fully in control. Obama did finally go on TV to say that as president, the disaster is his fault, but that guilt appropriation came far too late. In fact, it rang as true as shots of a concerned Obama, wearing brand new work boots, squatting on the Gulf shores and picking gingerly at tar balls.

What rings more true is the regime’s attempt to cast BP as Satan. The company’s stock is falling. Yesterday (June 3), it was reported that BP is losing profits at the pumps. Yes, Obama and his worker bees have been on the job “from Day One,” but a lot of what they’ve done involves spreading vitriol against BP, casting it as the Big Bad Oil Company. Hey, but what are friends for, right, especially when the company in question was one of the president’s top campaign contributors (Erika Lovley, "Obama biggest recipient of BP cash," POLITICO, May 5, 2010, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html).

Last night, Obama told Larry King that he wanted to vent about all of this because he's angry. (“Larry King Live,” June 3, 2010, CNN). A lot of people are angry, Mr. President. That anger needs to be channeled to more than venting and demonizing.

Of course, in spite of the grim Gulf situation, Obama took a page out of his regime’s own playbook and remembered never to let a good crisis go to waste. Speaking at Carnegie Mellon last Tuesday (June 2), Obama tried to use the Gulf oil spill to justify axing tax breaks to oil companies and advancing his clean energy plans (Kate Anderson Brower, “Obama Says Oil Company Tax Breaks Must Be Rolled Back (Update 3),” Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2, 2010, http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-02/obama-says-oil-company-tax-breaks-must-be-rolled-back-update3-.html). Boo-hiss.

And let’s not forget the Arizona immigration law situation. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer had to all but beg Obama to see her before the president granted her an audience this week. Obama has done nothing but bash Brewer’s brave attempts to right her state’s immigration wrongs. He let visiting Mexican president Calderon bash the new immigration law and supported the dissent. Is that any way for the leader of our country – which includes Arizona, whether Obama likes it or not – to behave? It also appears to us that Obama's move to put troops on the border is designed not so much to help the situation but to trump each state's ability to secure its own borders. In other words, he's working to remove each state's power.

But Obama’s worst headaches these days surely are borne of Bribegate, which is rapidly bloating into a major crisis. Evidence of a startling pattern has been unearthed: Joe Sestak may have been bribed with carefully worded promises. According to Larry Kane, who just interviewed Sestak, it wasn’t just Bill Clinton, but “many people,” who called Sestak and tried to “dissuade him from running” (Robert Costa, “Sestak to Kane: ‘Many people’ called,” National Review Online, June 3, 2010, http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDVjMmFiMTIzOTBmOGM2YzYzOGRlMGNmZmU2YzhmMGI=).

Then there’s the Colorado case: According to Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, “We now know that Obama’s deputy Chief of Staff, called Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff in September, 2009, to offer him one of three enumerated jobs if only he would drop out of the Democratic primary in which he was challenging appointed Senator Michael Bennet (“WHY THE WHITE HOUSE BRIBED ROMANOFF TO DROP OUT OF COLORADO SENATE RACE,” DickMorris.com, June 3, 2010, http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2010/06/03/why-the-white-house-bribed-romanoff-to-drop-out-of-colorado-senate-race/). And just how much was Obama involved in the Chicago Blago senate-seat selloff?

Red Alert claxons must be blaring throughout the White House these days – and the Obama regime has only to thank itself for the meltdown. The administration's hubris is shining through with stark clarity. Obama & friends got so bigheaded, that they really thought they could go on making Chicago backroom deals forever. Now their empire is teetering.

In fact, the regime is so desperate for a toehold that it’s suddenly become more supportive of Israel. This, from Obama, who disgraced Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu during their last White House summit by ditching BB and going upstairs alone for dinner! (Of course, Round Two of the Gaza flotilla crisis is coming up. We suspect it won’t be long before Obama throws Israel back under the bus, as he’s done from Day One of his presidency.)

Will anything come of these combined crises? Conservatives can cry foul all day, but in the end, how much the Obama presidency is hurt by this bad behavior rests on the shoulders of elected Republicans. They have to be as tenacious as Dick Morris has been in sounding the alarm on Bribegate. They have to point out every indiscretion. They cannot let up or it's over. Obama's moves to dictate his agenda against the will of the people will surely continue until Republicans can take back both the Senate and House in November, but that’s no reason to let up on the pressure. In fact, the shenanigans we’re seeing on various fronts are all the more reasons to make sure that change is effected in November.

Those of us who are concerned and really want change will do what we can. We’ll keep informed; we’ll comment; we’ll rally – but if ever there were a time for elected conservatives to fight against Obama’s abuse of power, it’s now. Republicans need to keep the pressure on the administration – or get out of the way and let We the People elect committed individuals who will.

[RJS1950]

This is always the big problem. Republicans become spineless and roll over at the slightest hint of being called racist or mean by the Nazi socialist democrat party and their media tools. This is a war for the Constitution and the Republic you GOP twits and that means you hit the enemy with every possible weapon and you forcefully answer every lie they put out by calling them liars in public and repeatedly and demonstrating why they are liars.

[Frantzie]

AZ is the only state with Repubs that has guts - McCain is not one of them. McCain is scum.

TX, FL and other states are filled with RINOs like: Jeb Bush, Connie Mack, Rubio, Crist, Rick Perry, Kay Bailey, Cornyn, McCollum and others who attacked Arizona!

The f***i*g nerve of these RINOs.

[centurion316]

You can bet the farm that the Republicans will fumble the ball at least once inside the Red Zone.

[ignoramus2010]

Obama has failed because if he acted on Day 1 to scramble the EPA and National Guard the oil would be contained and damage minimized.

[thesheepdog]

JD Hayworth for Senate!!!!!!!!