Posted on 01/21/2015 11:37:02 AM PST by Kaslin
And he doesn't care what you or anyone else thinks.
It's hard to imagine a more complete shellacking than the one Barack Obama took in the 2014 mid-term elections. Yes, I know, his name was not on the ballot. But his policies were, as he himself told us. And Democrat candidates for the House and Senate got their clocks cleaned across the country for supporting these ill-conceived policies.
With a loud and clear voice, the public elected a Republican majority as a way of saying, "Enough!"
Enough wealth redistribution. Enough government health care. Enough regulation. Enough hostility toward business. Enough class warfare. Enough spending. Enough foreign policy weakness.
Enough!
So as Obama took the podium for last night's State of the Union address, you might have thought we'd hear some humility from a man so thoroughly chastised by the public. Then again, if you've paid much attention to Obama these past six years, you probably wouldn't expect that at all. It's all about him, all the time. And if he's faced with a Congress determined to take the country in a different direction, then Obama will only double down on his partisan, confrontational, big-government instincts.
And that's what he did last night. When not taking partisan jabs at Republicans and wealthy people, or threatening to veto legislation the public wants (like the Keystone XL pipeline), he took his big-government pandering to a whole new level:
Obama thinks the purpose of government is to decide who gets what in society, and to take from those not favored to give to those who are. He has convinced a lot of people that if they don't have what they want, it's because someone else has too much, and they should look to government to confiscate from the haves and redistribute to the have-nots.
But apparently he hasn't convinced enough people, as the massive Republican majorities in attendance last night demonstrates. Some of the public can be fooled by liberalism for a time, but when they see the results of it, they usually came to their senses. As they did in November.
But Obama doesn't care what the voters think. He doesn't care what Congress thinks. He doesn't care what anyone thinks. He knows that none of these proposals are going to pass, but he also figures that if he proposes them, he'll rile up both his supporters and his critics and start an argument that might benefit him and his side politically.
And if Obama benefits, then Obama figures he's done his job. That's our president!
It is also the opinion of others.
It is furthermore an accurate assessment of reality.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law.
(Every day that goes by, convinces me more and more that he is possessed)
Yep.
The federal government has its own goals. Those goal are all it cares about, and the GOP, being part of that government, also shares in those goal, and cares about not one thing else.
He shouldn’t.
It’s quite clear that he is beyond reach.
He can do whatever he wants however he wants to do it.
Actually he stole the second one
I refuse to accept the outcome of the 2008 election.
They could pull off a very serious false flag. And then we would be told that during WWII President Roosevelt was allowed to exceed the two term limit of his office because of the seriousness of the War. And what are we, RACISTS, for not letting obama remain in office?
Ah but that’s just a conspiracy theory and I am reaching for the tinfoil right now.
Very possible. The only thing Obama ever learned was how to commit voter fraud.
Conservative media and politicians should start floating the notion that barack is unstable.
the sooner the better
Obama tells Russian PM "After Election I Have More Flexibilty" 3/26/2012
Now ask yourself how did he know over 8 month prior to the election that he would be reelected, unless he planned to steal it? Which is obvious
Good question.
I often think the ‘I will be more flexible’ was his response to demands that he stop fracking in its tracks.
Now all his commie allies are bleeding and broken with oil prices, ha ha ha ha ha.
Yay.
[Said in the driest, flattest voice imaginable.]
Unity in TREASON, that is....
What’s to recognize: 54 “Republican” senators led by one of the “Mc’s” remains a hopeless minority.
I've been thinking about that. The 1960s song from Steppenwolf, "Monster" comes to mind. "There's a monster on the loose..." No one election or one elected politician or even one law can reign it in. When we try, the politicians are ignored or sucked in or any laws are overturned by courts.
Like any out of control monster, it doesn't go easily. That's why compromise works so poorly. It feeds the beast, just a little less.
Do I make any sense?
Yes, perfect sense.
I do not even think that any series of elections will reign the beast in.
I am not sure that anything can.
It boils down to the fact that mankind is utterly corrupt and cannot be trusted with power over other men at all.
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