{"id":1853,"date":"2013-05-10T13:20:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2013-05-10T13:20:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T19:20:30","slug":"president-petulant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orderofephors.com\/?p=1853","title":{"rendered":"President Petulant"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 1,560th<\/sup> day of his bogus presidency, Barack Obama left the Oval Office and walked the short distance down the hallway to the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.\u00a0 As he entered the auditorium he held a short list of six names clutched tightly in his hand.\u00a0 The list contained the names of six White House correspondents, selected in advance by his press secretary, who would be allowed to ask questions of the make-believe president.<\/p>\n

The list was headed by Ed Henry, chief White House correspondent for Fox News<\/em>\u2026 an all but obligatory inclusion because of Henry\u2019s position as the outgoing president of the White House Correspondents Association.\u00a0 The others on the list were the usual suspects: Jessica Yellin, of CNN<\/em>; Jonathan Karl, of ABC<\/em>; Bill Plante, of CBS<\/em>; F. Chuck Todd, of NBC<\/em>; and Antonieta Cadiz, of the Spanish language newspaper, La Opi\u00f1ion<\/em>\u2026 a sop to his upcoming trip to Mexico and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

With the exception of the Fox<\/em> correspondent, it was a group that could be expected to ask only \u201csoftball\u201d questions\u2026 but that\u2019s not what happened.\u00a0 His third questioner, Jonathan Karl, of ABC News<\/em>, asked, \u201cMr. President, you are a hundred days into your second term.\u00a0 On the gun bill, you put, it seems, everything into it to try to get it passed.\u00a0 Obviously, it didn’t.\u00a0 Congress has ignored your efforts to try to get them to undo these sequester cuts.\u00a0 There was even a bill that you threatened to veto that got 92 Democrats in the House voting yes.\u00a0 So my question to you is, do you still have the \u2018juice\u2019 to get the rest of your agenda through this Congress?\u201d<\/p>\n

Obviously stunned by that punch to the political solar plexus, Obama responded, \u201cWell, if you put it that way, Jonathan (chuckle, chuckle), maybe I should just pack up and go home.\u00a0 Golly.\u00a0 You know, the\u2026 I think it\u2019s\u2026 it\u2019s a little (chuckle, chuckle) as Mark Twain said, you know, rumors of my demise may be a little exaggerated at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, returning to his tiresome old blame-it-all-on-Congress theme, the most petulant political leader in American history said, \u201cLook, we\u2026 you know, we understand that we\u2019re in divided government right now.\u00a0 Republicans control the House of Representatives.\u00a0 In the Senate, this habit of requiring 60 votes for even the most modest piece of legislation has gummed up the works there.\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s\u2026 it comes as no surprise, not even to the American people, but even to members of Congress themselves, that right now things are pretty dysfunctional up on Capitol Hill\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

It is a recurring theme with Barack Obama, who regularly reminds all who will listen that he was reelected in 2012.\u00a0 What he fails to mention is that he won reelection with only 51.1% of the vote, while Republicans won 54% of the congressional seats across the country, compared to the Democrats\u2019 46%.\u00a0 At the county level, nationwide, Mitt Romney carried 2,421 (78%) of the 3,113 counties, while Obama carried only 692, or 22% of the counties.\u00a0 Obama won reelection by carrying the big cities, heavily inhabited by those who want something from<\/em> government, those who rely on the \u201cnanny state\u201d for their shelter, their healthcare, and their \u201cdaily bread.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans won the governor\u2019s office and both houses of the state legislature in 24 states; Democrats won the governor\u2019s office and both houses of the legislature in just 12 states.\u00a0 If the voters declared a mandate in 2012, it was Republicans who won it.\u00a0 So, take away the non-producing parasites from the vote totals and we are left with a massive GOP victory.<\/p>\n

When questioned about his policy on the Syrian civil war, Obama said, \u201cMy policy from the beginning has been that President Assad had lost credibility\u2026 and that the only way to bring stability and peace to Syria is going to be for Assad to step down and to move forward on a political transition.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that brief statement, Obama stated, not a policy, but an opinion and a distant hope\u2026 an opinion that most fifth graders share and a distant hope that has near zero chance of coming to fruition. \u00a0But the \u201cleader of the free world\u201d thinks it\u2019s a \u201cpolicy.\u201d\u00a0 He went on to say, \u201cBut even if chemical weapons were not being used in Syria, we\u2019d still be thinking about tens of thousands of people, innocent civilians\u2026 women and children\u2026 who\u2019ve been killed by a regime that\u2019s more concerned about staying in power than it is about the well-being of its people.\u201d\u00a0 (Oops!\u00a0 The pot should not call the kettle black.)<\/p>\n

Then, F. Chuck Todd, of NBC<\/em>, asked a question about Obama\u2019s attitude toward those Democrats in Congress who are beginning to see Obamacare as a \u201cpotential train wreck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Demonstrating that he has no concept whatsoever of either economic principles or the Law of Unintended Consequences, Obama replied that, \u201cThe Affordable Care Act… Obamacare… has now been with us for three years… A huge chunk of it has already been implemented.\u00a0 And for the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, they\u2019re already experiencing most of the benefits of the Affordable Care Act, even if they don\u2019t know it…\u201d<\/p>\n

What tens of millions of Americans who already have full time jobs and health insurance do <\/em>know is that they will soon find themselves without either.\u00a0 Being a liberal Democrat and unable to process any cause-and-effect situation beyond a single factor, he seems not to understand that a great many employers, unable to afford the higher costs of health care for full time employees, will be cutting 40-hour work weeks back to part time 29-hour work weeks so that they won\u2019t have to provide the part time workers with health insurance.\u00a0 As a result, millions of American families will be struggling to make ends meet while working at part time jobs and losing their healthcare insurance.\u00a0 Most will find it necessary to take a second part time job just to get by.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s what honest Democrats correctly refer to as a coming \u201ctrain wreck,\u201d and the only justice, if there is justice, lies in the fact that the vast majority of those so victimized by Obamacare will be those who voted to elect and reelect him.<\/p>\n

After taking his final question from Ms. Cadiz, there was a shouted question regarding what many in the mainstream media see as the cutting edge issue of the 21st<\/sup> century: the acceptance and normalization of homosexuality as a lifestyle equal in every respect to the heterosexual lifestyle.\u00a0 A reporter shouted, \u201cJason Collins, do you want to say anything about him?\u201d<\/p>\n

Obama stopped dead in his tracks.\u00a0 The man who would have ignored a shouted question about his administration\u2019s failure to heed warnings about one of the Boston Marathon bombers, the man who would have ignored a shouted question about his foot-dragging on the Keystone XL Pipeline… took the time to confer role model status on a black athlete who has publicly \u201ccome out of the closet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proving once again that, without a teleprompter and without being able to rely on the adolescent \u201cyou know\u201d<\/em> crutch, he would be barely able to communicate, he said, \u201cYeah… I had a chance to talk to him yesterday.\u00a0 He seems like a terrific young man, and, you know<\/em><\/strong>, I told him I couldn\u2019t be prouder of him… And, you know<\/em><\/strong>, given the importance of sports in our society, for an individual who\u2019s excelled at the highest levels in one of (our) major sports (to) go ahead and say, this is who I am, I\u2019m proud of it, I\u2019m still a great competitor, I\u2019m still seven feet tall and can bang with Shaq and, you know<\/em><\/strong>, deliver a hard foul… and for, you know<\/em><\/strong>, a lot of young people out there who, you know<\/em><\/strong>, are… are… are, you know<\/em><\/strong>, gay or lesbian, who are struggling with these issues, to see a role model like that who\u2019s unafraid, I think it\u2019s a great thing…\u00a0 And so I\u2019m very proud of him…\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the man who was so busy prepping for yet another high-dollar fundraiser in Las Vegas on September 11, 2012 that he couldn\u2019t find the time to call his Secretary of State or his Secretary of Defense to find out whether or not his ambassador to Libya was dead or alive.\u00a0 Yet, he found time to call a black professional basketball player to congratulate him on having the courage to admit that he is fond of dropping his knickers in the men\u2019s locker room, hoping that a teammate will come along and see him as a \u201ctarget of opportunity.\u201d\u00a0 Like it or not, Democrats, that\u2019s who Barack Obama is.<\/p>\n

The Obama tenure in the White House proves one thing, and one thing alone.\u00a0 It proves that our economy is so big and so strong, and that our underlying principles of self-government are so timeless and so enduring, that even the most dedicated enemy of our country, working 24\/7 from a desk in the Oval Office for eight years, can only slow it down temporarily.\u00a0 Those who\u2019ve studied physics understand the concept of kinetic energy, otherwise known as momentum, the product of mass times velocity.\u00a0 In economic terms, the momentum of our national economy is a product of its size and its dynamism.<\/p>\n

Obama may have arrived at the White House in January 2009 convinced that he could repeal the laws of economics.\u00a0 He has done damage, but just as the laws of physics are not subject to repeal, neither are the basic laws of economics.\u00a0 So, yes, Mr. Obama, you should take your own advice… just \u201cpack up and go home.\u201d\u00a0 You have two daughters who will, for the rest of their lives, have to bear the burden of carrying your name, identifying them as daughters of the most corrupt president in history.\u00a0 So why not do them a very big favor by cutting your losses now.\u00a0 Pack up your childish petulance, take whatever positive legacy you have left, and go home to Chicago… or to Kenya\u2026 two places where you can\u2019t possibly make things any worse than they already are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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