Friday, May 3, 2013

The Obama Presidency is a Failure


Perhaps you think this assertion as odd. Witness his successes:

  • passed Obamacare, lock, stock, and barrel
  • DREAM Act, and suppressing enforcement of immigrations laws by ICE/INS
  • making appointments that require Senate approval w/o same, and making them stick
  • choosing not to enforce laws that he disagrees with
  • tilting US foreign policy away from Israel and towards Islam, even radical sects
  • dramatically increasing Welfare (in the old days, we called it “food stamps”)
  • rolling back decreases in Medicaid installed by Clinton
  • making the world “trillion” a word in common parlance regarding fiscal spending
  • refusing to suppress the Communist Chinese blue-water navy or the nuclearization of Iran
  • advancing the cause of the “Imperial Presidency” (Google it, people) without a peep from the media
  • a wife who messes with school lunches

O, however, was handed a bipartisan Congress. He has neither the desire nor skill to deal with same.
Confronted with the same circumstances (does the name Newt Gingrich ring a bell?), Clinton did have the skills and moved mountains. He happily took credit for the whole shebang. Upon hearing a Republican equivocate on an important subject, LBJ would instantly call him into his office, share a bottle of good Bourbon, and a bill would be crafted before they reached the bottom of the bottle.
It is difficult to imagine O with the same abilities. Without them, he will have little if any success going forward. Most of his past successes are easily reversed by Executive Order.  

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