Posted on 11/15/2012 5:13:56 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The second-term curse goes like this: A president (e.g., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, etc.) wins re-election, but then his presidency implodes over the next four years -- mired in scandals or disasters such as Watergate, Iran-Contra, Monica Lewinsky, the Iraqi insurgency and Hurricane Katrina.
Apparently, like tragic Greek heroes, administrations grow arrogant after their re-election wins. They believe that they are invincible and that heir public approval is permanent rather than fickle.
The result is that Nemesis zeroes in on their fatal conceit and with a boom corrects their hubris. Or is the problem in some instances simply that embarrassments and scandals, hushed up in fear that they might cost an administration an election, explode with a fury in the second term?
Coincidentally, right after the election we heard that Iran had attacked a U.S. drone in international waters.
Coincidentally, we just learned that new food stamp numbers were "delayed" and that millions more became new recipients in the months before the election.
Coincidentally, we now gather that the federal relief effort following Hurricane Sandy was not so smooth, even as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Barack Obama high-fived it. Instead, in Katrina-like fashion, tens of thousands are still without power or shelter two weeks after the storm.
Coincidentally, we now learn that Obama's plan of letting tax rates increase for the "fat cat" 2 percent who make over $250,000 a year would not even add enough new revenue to cover 10 percent of the annual deficit. How he would get the other 90 percent in cuts, we are never told.
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More likely, the collapse will be successfully blamed on the Tsar Bush and increasingly on "domestic terrorists" and wreckers and enemies of the people and of the State. Lenin the kenyan will be strengthened as the NKVD Homeland Security agents disappear the enemies. Eventually will come the show trials and famine as the agricultural delivery system bresks down due to the cost of energy and the regulations of the State. And then there will be the inevitable et cetera. Robespierre. Lenin. Mao.-> Obama.
Better to be called a dweeb than to be blind.
No matter who is prez, things never change for almost all of us, but ignorant people like you believe trhat one Party is looking out for your interest.
Keep believing the criminals. Look how well it has worked out for you.
At some point one would hope that everyone could figure out that no matter who wins, the same folks control the monetary strings. Keep expecting good leadership and keep wondering why you never get it.
But I’m the dweeb.
“Robespierre. Lenin. Mao.-> Obama”
You are right.
Fast & Furious = Reichstag Fire
General’s sex scandals = Blomber Fritsch affair.
They are running the NSDAP playbook as well.
or connected.....
What would Obama look like if he grew even more arrogant? I'm afraid that we are about to find out.
It's not Obama. It is the liberal agenda along with the smack-down of conservatism. That's what they see as their job.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Provebs 16:18
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