One of the things that makes it difficult for anybody to deal with Obama is that he is so outrageous (or at any rate, the team running him is - he’s too dumb and lazy to think up these things himself, but he obviously loves carrying them out). He disregards both law and precedent and even history. Somebody with Susan Rice’s dismal track record should never have been anywhere near an important position, but then, the same is true of Obama.
But it’s tempting for people to think or want to think that they are still dealing with a normal person who is a normal president but just a little full of himself, ala Bill Clinton. What they don’t realize is that they are dealing with a total dictatorial nutcase who has no respect for our system, and will simply brazenly do anything he wants.
The result is that they’re always one step behind in opposing him. You’d think they’d learn, but I really think it’s hard for people who play the game by the rules, even too much so, one might say, to deal with somebody who writes his own, completely unpredictable rules and then just imposes them.
I was more thinking that elected Rs (national) are just not that bright and he keeps outsmarting them.
Bohner and McConnell are pretty dull tools, and during last years debt limit standoff the Rs saying dumb stuff like ‘default, default, shut it down’ for Dems to use as weapons set their own coming defeat in stone.
Look at Akin. And Angle two years earlier. I mean are these folks hatched from an eggs just before the race?