Really? That’s Obama’s problem? Not listening, but that’s the title of the panel segment on This Week.
Of course, if we’d known half of what we know now a year ago — about Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, the blatant deliberate lies about keeping your health plan, period, etc., there wouldn’t have been a second term.
Thoughts from Andrew Klavan:
Within the narrative cloud created by these journalists, Obama remains safe in his illusions while the rest of us suffer the consequences. He believes that playing the president and being the president are much the same thing. It is as if Bruce Willis believed he could save a skyscraper full of people by jumping off the roof clutching a fire hose.
For those of us who face the world head on? We don’t need Mulder and Scully to tell us: the truth is out there. Obama has lost the gains of the Iraq war and sacrificed the lives of our soldiers in Afghanistan to no purpose. He has alienated our allies in Germany, France and, God help us, Saudi Arabia, while playing the fool for our enemies in Iran and Russia. He has ruthlessly curtailed free speech by abusing the powers of the IRS against his political opponents, spying on and persecuting journalists, and encouraging the imprisonment of a video maker to suit his political ends. He has brutally hobbled our economy with anti-business regulations written by the very legislators who brought on the recession in the first place. And now, through lies and corrupt political machinations, he has saddled us with a chaotic and overbearing health care law that, even when operational, will never be worth its weight in debt and curtailed liberties.
But other than that, it’s great.
[Update a while later]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been opposed to government health care because, as I’ve said in at least two books, it fundamentally redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state into one closer to that of junkie and pusher. But that’s a philosophical position. Others prefer constitutional arguments: The federal government does not have the authority to do what it’s doing. Dear old John Roberts, chief justice of the United States, twisted himself into a pretzel to argue that, in fact, the government does. But he might as well have saved himself the trouble and just used Nancy Pelosi’s line: Asked by a journalist where in the Constitution it granted the feds the power to do this, she gave him the full Leslie Nielsen and said, “You’re not serious?” She has the measure of her people. Most Americans couldn’t care less about philosophical arguments or constitutional fine print: For them, all Obamacare has to do is work. That is why the last month has been so damaging to Big Government’s brand: In entirely non-ideological, technocratic, utilitarian terms, Obamacare is a bust.
I think, and hope, it was a regulatory policy bridge too far.
This could actually work well for me, because I work from home without a regular commute, but occasionally need a car to run an errand.
It could help prevent heart disease.
Probably stroke, too.
Man, Gardiner is getting absolutely no protection. I’m losing track of number of sacks.
[Update a couple minutes later]
OK, they just showed the stat. Twelve allowed in season to date. Four in today’s first quarter. Over twenty yards negative yardage. Fortunately, Spartans can’t move the ball much either, except for one big running play.
[Update late in the third quarter]
I think Michigan has about minus seventy yards on the ground.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, Michigan’s down sixteen. Hard to see them coming back unless either they or the Spartans suddenly become a different team.
Who is stupider? It’s pretty tough to choose. But this is a point I hadn’t considered:
…as smarter people abandon public schools, the dumber ones who remain have more impact. They should be subjected to public humiliation, in the hopes that they’ll learn, or at least serve as an example to the others.
I wonder if we aren’t already in a death spiral in that regard.
There’s nothing “liberal” about them.
Not a sooper genius:
Obviously he wouldn’t want to delay Obamacare. But that decision was out of his hands due to his administration’s incompetence. The only choice before him was whether he would get the blame for the delay or if the Republicans would.
Why Obama didn’t do this and why it didn’t occur to him are good questions. Hubris obviously played a role, as it does in nearly everything this White House does. But the best answer is he didn’t know how terrible things were over at HHS. In other words, the chess master didn’t even know what pieces he had on the board, which is usually not something we associate with chess masters. It’s something we associate with people who don’t even know how to play the game.
The media always overhypes the intelligence of Democrats, but this guy’s in a league of his own in that regard. On the other hand, when you’re called “inept” by Jimmy Carter, it ought to sting.
Lois Lerner violated the law by giving confidential information to the Federal Election Commission.
This was no doubt just one of many things that she didn’t want to talk about when she pled the Fifth.
It’s up now at the Fox Business web site.