The same week Obama gets a second major budget initiative bill
from a bi-partisan Congress thanks to the tireless efforts of House Budget
Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray
which provides a year of Congressional stability and avoids government
shutdowns and other nonsense, Obama takes the bully pulpit once again.
Obama is quite the dichotomy, or is it trichotomy? There
is the ethereal, detached professor who lectures America as if we are stuck in
stupid. There is the frustrated and hypocritical
Nobel Peace Prize winner still trying to end war five years after winning the
coveted prize. And there is the Chicago back room
politician who seems to have forgotten thugs stopped being in vogue back in
Richard Daley days.
No one in America
should be more aware of the paralyzing effects of bitter partisan politics than
Barack Obama. Every year since elected
he has invoked the finger pointing threat of condemning Congress for failing to
say yes to everything he wants. Then he
moans and groans about the need for bi-partisan cooperation because he can't
get what he wants.
Now, after five years of intellectual and Congressional
constipation when Congress finally does start working together which Barack
Obama shows his face, the same old Chicago thug from five years ago who
basically said to Hell with Congress and the people, I'm going to use executive
powers to do what I want!
At times it seems our president is more concerned with his
legacy than his performance in office.
At times it seems he is resigned to doing nothing with Congress or the
Supreme Court when the Constitution defines a clear role for all three branches
of government. Kind of makes you wonder
what they taught him in his Constitutional Law courses at Harvard.
Be that as it may, did he also forget this is an election
year? A swing of just six Senate seats
from Democrat to Republican would give the GOP control of both the House and
Senate for the last two years of the Obama presidency. If he thinks things have been tough so far,
imagine what would happen if he lost control of the Senate.
Thanks to ObamaCare four Senate Democrats up for re-election
have already said they will resign. Senators
don't resign without reason and there is no better reason than to think you
can't win. If such is the case, the GOP
needs only two more seats to take control for the next two years.
So why does Obama condemn Congress and the GOP when they are
working together for the first time in five years? That is the home run ball he served up to the
Republicans. It also may be the
lingering failure to get over politics Chicago style and a continuing failure
to realize what worked in Chicago all those years ago is not relevant to the
modern day and present needs.
His mastery of the teleprompter and triumphant speeches long
ago lost their luster to the American people who are still trying to recover
from an economic collapse caused by greed and prolonged by partisan
bickering. No matter how smooth you may
be as a politician, eventually the people expect results.
No president has ever been successful because they were a
partisan bully. No president has ever
been successful by condemning the two branches of government our Founding
Fathers felt could protect us from an abuse of power and anarchy, the
Legislative and Executive branches.
It just seems that Obama has never understood his is not an
Imperial presidency but a democratic election to office by barely 50% of the
vote. Yet once elected, he is the
president for all the people, not just those who like him. Serving all the people all the time seems foreign to the
Obama administration and that is a sad truth to ponder.
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