Power Hour From the Chicago Gang
Some observations:
1. Obama makes frivolous speeches disingenuously attacking his opponents. He puts little effort or thought into governing. He does not appear to be a man of deep thought, just slogans and "social justice" memes he has seemingly indiscriminately absorbed throughout his life. He seems to like the power and adulation that comes with the office but not the work.
2. Obama acts as one who wishes to be a monarch, not a president answerable to the voters and on an equal footing with Congress and the Supreme Court.
a. He has twice chastised, warned and insulted the judges of the Supreme Court, evidently hoping to swing a figurative tire iron to influence the Court's decision on his health care law.
b. He recess-appointed officials when Congress was not in recess by declaring that, in his opinion, they were in recess.
c. He bypasses the law-making power that resides in Congress by allowing his unelected, appointed bureaucrats (Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services) to create regulations that Congress has never approved or passed (control of carbon di-oxide as a pollutant even though it is produced in great quantity by - get this scary thought - trees; mandating what all health insurance policies must cover).
3. Eric Holder, true to this administration's holding of itself as above the laws of this country,
a. tries to skate around Congress with impunity with his dishonest testimony regarding Fast and Furious.
b. refuses to hold the New Black Panthers to account for voter intimidation a couple of years ago (caught on tape) and now, illegally putting a price on a man's head (George Zimmerman, who says he shot and killed Trayvon Martin).
These patterns of behavior are characteristic of local machine politics or of third world governing. The Constitution of the United States was formulated based on a certain fundamental sense of trust and fair play and seems to provide only clumsy and slow mechanisms to respond to such frontal attacks.
1. Obama makes frivolous speeches disingenuously attacking his opponents. He puts little effort or thought into governing. He does not appear to be a man of deep thought, just slogans and "social justice" memes he has seemingly indiscriminately absorbed throughout his life. He seems to like the power and adulation that comes with the office but not the work.
2. Obama acts as one who wishes to be a monarch, not a president answerable to the voters and on an equal footing with Congress and the Supreme Court.
a. He has twice chastised, warned and insulted the judges of the Supreme Court, evidently hoping to swing a figurative tire iron to influence the Court's decision on his health care law.
b. He recess-appointed officials when Congress was not in recess by declaring that, in his opinion, they were in recess.
c. He bypasses the law-making power that resides in Congress by allowing his unelected, appointed bureaucrats (Lisa Jackson, head of the EPA, Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services) to create regulations that Congress has never approved or passed (control of carbon di-oxide as a pollutant even though it is produced in great quantity by - get this scary thought - trees; mandating what all health insurance policies must cover).
3. Eric Holder, true to this administration's holding of itself as above the laws of this country,
a. tries to skate around Congress with impunity with his dishonest testimony regarding Fast and Furious.
b. refuses to hold the New Black Panthers to account for voter intimidation a couple of years ago (caught on tape) and now, illegally putting a price on a man's head (George Zimmerman, who says he shot and killed Trayvon Martin).
These patterns of behavior are characteristic of local machine politics or of third world governing. The Constitution of the United States was formulated based on a certain fundamental sense of trust and fair play and seems to provide only clumsy and slow mechanisms to respond to such frontal attacks.
posted by alison @ 1:59 AM
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