Posted on 04/21/2013 8:50:33 AM PDT by jazusamo
This has not been a good week for President Obama. I think it will not be the worst week of this year or this term, which I predict will get worse as his own personality flaws and patently partisan strategies make his lame-duck term even more impotent than is usually the case.
To begin with, he bet the farm on the passage of new gun-control legislation. Albeit the vote this week in the Senate was only on amendments to the main bill -- something his Majority Leader Reid (who won his last race as the NRA choice) insisted on, though it made passage more difficult, requiring 60, not 51 votes -- all the amendments went down in flames with numbers of his own party members abandoning him. By week's end Reid had withdrawn the main bill without even bringing it to a vote.
In defiance of reality, Obama held a petulant, unpresidential press conference, ending the effort as he began it with demagogic, partisan rhetoric. ...and a threat to accomplish by executive orders what he cannot achieve by legislation
The Telegraph blogger Tim Stanley captured my thoughts on the defeat of these proposed bills:
Barack Obama is a lame duck president. Nobody listens to what he says anymore, nobody is interested in winning his approval and nobody much cares if he thinks they have "let the country down". This is typical for a second-term president who has lost all their leverage because they're no longer running for office and everybody is patiently waiting for the day when he quits the White House. But Obama's difficult personality has doubled the size of the challenge. Gloating in victory, adolescent in defeat -- the Prez doesn't make it easy to work with him.
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That says it all about the boy president.
re: “I think it will not be the worst week of this year or this term, which I predict will get worse. . .”
We can only hope. The problem is that we will all suffer for it as well.
I took great pleasure hearing the TOTUS whine this week and showing some “ankle” when expressing his displeasure.
That was the first time I EVER listened to a whole speech. I rather enjoyed it.
I will make a simple statement: This man POTUS Obama is not on the side of America or Americans!!! Fears are rising in the Democrat Party that Obama will take the Democrat Party down with him!!! As long as he remains POTUS, the USA is in deathly harm’s way!!! He should be impeached...with the first calls for impeachement coming from The Democrat Party....or, he should be forced to resign!!!
That says it all about the boy president.
The perfect fit to a narcissistic personality.
Obamacare and that is all he got and he got that illegally with the SCOTUS ruling.
He manages a “Politburo of Pantywaists.”
Yo Obama, how’s that “Charm Offensive” working out now?
One thing that obama has is a “damned the consequences” mentality, combined with the ability to rally the socialist-democrats and their free shit army to run interference for him and his handlers, hitler-esque style, and this all adds up to be a fascist dictatorship in the making. Ask the people in countries who swore that it couldn’t possibly happen to them, and then it did.
Obama is Mussoliniesque (doubt that's a real word) in both actions and methods but it didn't work out well for Il Duce.
Obama exhibits the typical characteristics of a tinpot, third-world dictator. How dare anyone oppose the wishes of Fearless Leader!!! They must be punished. But they can’t be punished the way he’d like (imprisonment, torture, death), so he’s reduced to ranting and raving. Clinton did the same thing. They both thought they were so popular, they could force anything they wanted down the nation’s throat.
That won't happen as long as Dems steal from the producers and give to the takers.
I don't think the Dems have a thing to worry about, especially if we legalize 15 million new Dem voters.
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