Obama: The Lamest DuckPerhaps if he did something non-absurd he might gain a modicum of respect. But he pursues absurdities, as is the NEW war on cancer - a war already well underway and nearing the final win with engineered T-cells - instead of protecting the USA and the victims of the world generated by his own policies. He is directly responsible for the loss of a stabilized Iraq, the rise of ISIS, the re-arming of Iran, the chaos in Lybia, the aggression of the Chinese, and the continuing recession and increase of indigency and food stamps as necessities. His "initiatives" are feeble and defeated in US Courts. The more time on the links, the better off we all are.
By Victor Davis Hanson
President Obama is boxed in a state of paralysis—more so than typical lame-duck presidents.
His hard-left politics have insidiously eroded the Democratic Party, which has lost both houses of Congress and the vast majority of the state legislatures, state elected offices, and governorships. Obama has redefined the black vote, as a necessary, no-margin-of-error 95% bloc majority to offset his similar creation of an increasingly monolithic 65% bloc white vote. We are no longer individual voters, but, in Chicago-politics style, merely faceless “Latinos,” “Asians,” “African-Americans,” “gays,” “women,” and now “whites.”
Obama issues a new initiative—and the nation snoozes. He wastes the day on the golf links—and the nation snoozes. He smear his critics, invites a rapper to the White House whose latest album cover has a dead white judge lying in front of the White House—and the nation snoozes. He cozies up to America’s enemies and snubs our friends—and the nation snoozes. For the nth time, he blusters about closing down Guantanamo—and the nation snoozes. He opens the border even wider to welcome in more illegal aliens and future constituents—and the nation snoozes. Lame duckestry means not even being able to wake up your opponents.
There is so far no Obama legacy, except the creation of Donald Trump, a $20 trillion debt and zero interest rates—and the gift of flat energy prices that came despite not because of Obama’s efforts. Almost every major bureaucracy is awash in scandal or charges of incompetence. The common theme of the disasters at the GSA, EPA, ICE, IRS, NASA, Secret Service, and VA is ideological subversion and ingrained hostility to meritocracy. Would anyone be surprised that another government official pled the 5th, created fake email personas, resigned at 5 PM on a Friday afternoon, declared a foremost mission Muslim outreach, or withheld subpoenaed documents?
1 comment:
This post is much too long for me to respond to everything at once. What I propose to do is make a series of separate comments in response. And I propose to do that in my blog, for a couple of reasons. One is that I want my audience to see the discussion engendered by my original post. Another is that my blog is set up to allow replies to individual comments. So if you want to discuss an individual issue further, you can use the reply option to maintain a separate thread for each separate issue. Of course, others are welcome to participate, too. But just to try to preserve some order where there are many issues, I would like to keep each issue in its own thread.
All this assumes, of course that you are willing and able to discuss issues in a reasonable manner.
I will begin my responses soon.
Post a Comment