Posted on 01/17/2013 1:48:45 AM PST by Kaslin
One definition of "imperial" on dictionary.com is, "of the nature or rank of an emperor or supreme ruler."
At his news conference Monday, a petulant, threatening and confrontational President Obama spoke like an emperor or supreme ruler. All that was missing was a scepter, a crown and a robe trimmed in ermine.
This president exceeds even Bill Clinton in his ability to evade, prevaricate and dissemble. I didn't think that possible.
Not only did he supply long answers to relatively easy questions, but much of what he said bore no relation to reality.
He spoke of having had the debate over the economy during the 2012 campaign and boasted, "...the American people agreed with me." By the way, can we now retire the phrase "the American people"? Too many politicians overuse it, including Speaker John Boehner. Forty-seven percent of voters supported Mitt Romney and other Republicans in the last election. Ninety-four million people eligible to vote didn't vote. Can Obama really claim "the American people" agreed with him? The president won the election, but he has yet to win the debate over smaller vs. larger government, and more vs. less spending.
The question Major Garrett of CBS News posed to the president on raising the debt ceiling in tandem with spending cuts exposed his hypocrisy and that of many congressional Democrats: "You yourself, as a member of the Senate, voted against a debt ceiling increase. And in previous aspects of American history, President Reagan in 1985, President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990, President Clinton in 1997, all signed deficit-reduction deals that were contingent upon or in the context of raising the debt ceiling. You yourself, four times have done that. Three times, those were related to deficit reduction or budget maneuvers. What Chuck (NBC's Chuck Todd) and I and, I think, many people are curious about is this new adamant desire on your part not to negotiate when that seems to conflict with the entire history of the modern era of American presidents on the debt ceiling and your own history on the debt ceiling. And doesn't that suggest that we are going to go into a default situation, because no one is talking to each other about how to resolve this?"
The president dissembled, talking again (he repeated this at least three times by my count) about how Congress had authorized all the spending and how we must now "pay our bills." But as Garrett noted, the president had a different view of the debt ceiling when he was an Illinois senator and voted against raising it. In 2006, he said, "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure." Except when he's the leader, then it's someone else's failure.
In 2003, during another debate over raising the debt ceiling, Sen. Max Baucus, D-MT, said, "The federal debt is like the family credit card. Sooner or later you have to pay down the debts that you have already incurred. If you don't, your credit rating will suffer. The way the government raises the debt limit is also like a family who just keeps calling the bank every time they hit the credit limit and asks the bank over and over again for an increase in their credit limit without regard to anything else. Rather than pay down their debt, they just keep on asking for a higher debt limit."
Many other Senate Democrats, including Senators Harry Reid, D-NV, and John Kerry, D-MA, shared Baucus' concerns, but that was during the George W. Bush administration.
The president says he will reduce debt with a "balanced approach," by which he means offsetting higher taxes on the wealthy with spending cuts, which will never materialize. It won't work. Whatever tax revenue government manages to save, Congress will always find a way to spend it.
The president has submitted a budget to Congress for each fiscal year he's been in office, not always on time, in violation of the law, and never without spurring contentious debate in Congress. That's a staggering repudiation of his leadership.
President Obama will not negotiate about raising the debt ceiling? Not surprising. Imperial leaders don't negotiate.
That was also part of a concerted effort by the Dems to sandbag Bush using the power of the purse. The Democratic caucus was attempting to force Bush to shut down the Iraq War in mediis rebus with troops in combat in the field -- in order to impose a lost war, a national defeat, on Bush, whom they hated with a purple passion for having stopped Al Gore from stealing the 2000 election.
As long as he knows the Senate will not convict him he doesn’t care!
Millions of conservatives stayed home on election night or didn’t vote to stop t his monster, communist , dictator, piece of crap Obama so we got this monster as dictator for life. and many others even here told us that Romney was as bad or worse than this communist dictatorial piece of crap Obama: Even now they believe that and berate those that said to stop Obama.
They don’t even realize that they are playing into the hands of that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave who wants to make sure we lose the House in 2014. Thanks to them we did not get the Senate back, even though we had an excellent chance to do so
His opinion was that even if Romney wasn't all that popular, obama was so bad that voters would vote for Romney anyway just to keep obama from having a second term.
Apparently, that's core rino logic for how to win elections.
In the post election aftermath, I have been surprised to learn how many life long Republicans I know who stayed home on election day, many for the first time since they began voting.
There is no evidence the eGOP will change tactics or update their logic. They know they are the only alternative and can do, or not do, whatever they want, so they say to you, "What are you gonna do about it?"
But he lost anyway.
The Republican establishment pushed Romney on us. And he lost. He wasn't popular. He didn't have the base. People didn't understand his policies or didn't like his policies. The man was -- quite definitely -- a loser.
And now I have to hear apologists for the Republcian Establihsment tell me that this is all my fault because I didn't like Romney?
Go away.
And Cal Thomas, like virtually every other columnist, journalist, or radio talk personality that leans toward the conservative side, refuses to call this jug-eared socialist POS what he is in straightforward and definitive terms:
"Evades"? Try "refuses to answer even the simplest question posed"!
"Prevaricate"? Try "bald face liar"!
"Dissemble"? Really, try "fraud"!
Until more people start coming out and calling this POS what he is, he is going to continue this garbage unabated.
And Cal Thomas, like virtually every other columnist, journalist, or radio talk personality that leans toward the conservative side, refuses to call this jug-eared socialist POS what he is in straightforward and definitive terms:
"Evades"? Try "refuses to answer even the simplest question posed"!
"Prevaricate"? Try "bald face liar"!
"Dissemble"? Really, try "fraud"!
Until more people start coming out and calling this POS what he is, he is going to continue this garbage unabated.
Obama could very well be the cause why this country WILL end up breaking up along red states/blue states lines.
He will be the most likely cause of a second American civil war.
Cal Thomas and every one of the journalists who are somewhat, supposedly conservative, are way too polite in writing about obama. Way too polite in the words they use. Call it like it is!
I'm not blaming those that voted for McCain and Romney, and you say you did so I’m not blaming you as you did the right thing even though it was against what you believed
I fight for freedom and individual rights and against big government against democrats , against Obama , and against the media. You want to blame me for what?
You want to blame someone then blame this big eared communist faggit named Obama:
Yep. Emperor Zero. The first and last emperor of the united States.
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