This Is All About a Petulant President

CNSnews ^ | 10/4/2013 | Pat Buchanan

[EBH]

In the showdown over the shutdown of the U.S. government, the Obamaites tipped their hand yesterday as what their strategy is.

Taking a page out of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals," the plan is to maximize the people's pain — to maximize the political damage to the enemy, the Republican Party.What else explains it?Consider this:

Asked Wednesday if there were any danger of America defaulting on her debt, President Obama rushed to assure a reporter that, yes, indeed, there certainly is such a peril. Why would a president act in so perverse a manner, were he not trying deliberately to rattle or panic the markets? Obama's tactic worked. Thursday, the Dow plunged below 15,000.

This is all about a petulant president whose prize program the people do not want, but who insists it be imposed upon them, to assure himself a paragraph in the history books. This week, Republicans tried to pass legislation that would keep open all memorials and monuments, all tourist sites in Washington, D.C., and all programs for America's veterans.

Who stonewalled that? Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama. Why would Reid sabotage the funding the National Institute of Health. Why would Reid sabotage what is transparently a humanitarian act? Again, Reid and Obama do not want to ease the pain of the people.

They want to intensify that pain, ratchet it up, maximize it, to put maximum pressure on and do maximum damage to the GOP. The Obama-Reid strategy is, in a word, sadistic. They are inflicting pain on fellow Americans — to break their political enemies. And they can only succeed in sustaining their Big Lie — that it is Republicans who want to keep the government shut down — because of a collaborationist press.

[SERKIT]

I’m looking for something that will work.

What will work, since passively rolling over, appeasement, and acceptance has not been successful?

[C. Edmund Wright]

I am not susceptible to straw arguments. Your notion that there’s only two choices, suing or appeasement, is a level of debate below what I am able to access. Enjoy it down there....

[SERKIT]

So what are the high minded thinking to extricate us from this mess? I just might be able to understand if you use small words.

[SERKIT]

How about this?

[C. Edmund Wright]

I like that idea, to challenge it that way, in the House. I agree with McCarthy that is the best way to go. This is totally different than Ted Cruz or any Senator suing the President - which is what you suggested I think.

I would also say that I wrote at length, in American Thinker, Breitbart, and two books that the GOP was making a huge mistake to leave it to the courts. I wrote that well before the ridiculous Roberts’ ruling.

And for how to extricate ourselves from this mess? That’s a tough question, and the first thing is for more people to realize, like you and I both do, that we are indeed IN A MESS. It’s going to take a lot of things happening simultaneously - and if the GOP would follow McCarthy’s suggestion, that would be a good development indeed.