President Barack Hussein Obama tells us just this morning that Americans become upset when they see people being rewarded for failure. (His premise for a pending Government takeover of those obscene free market capitalist banks and investment firms).
Sounds presumptuous coming from a man who, having just been elected President of the United States, expects us to reward his repeated, glaring failures by accepting a shrug and an apology that sounds like it was written by some dopey Olympic swimmer shaking off a pot buzz.
“I screwed up,” the great orator said, no doubt pausing for the expected thud of a fainting MSNBC reporter against the carpet.
Barry, you’re doin’ a helluva job.
When Olympic swimming god Michael Phelps confessed to being the guy in the tabloid photo trying out his considerable lung capacity on a “marijuana bong” (like “leisure suit”, not a phrase often appearing on my laptop screen), at least he allowed his handlers to come up with an adult mea culpa. His statement read: “I engaged in behavior which was regrettable and demonstrated bad judgment.”
We can be fairly certain that Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, having just signed a reported seven-figure deal to write a book about how he and his team swindled America, will not dwell on how they brilliantly hurdled Obama’s lifelong addiction to bad judgment throughout the 2008 race.
Isn’t it hilarious that Plouffe’s million-dollar-plus book contract is announced just as Obama is going before the adoring cameras to scold CEOs in the financial services industry for accepting huge bonuses? B. Hussein wants to limit the Ivory Towers guys to $500,000 in annual compensation if their firms received government bailout funds — a bailout many of them got whether they wanted it or not. But, apparently, there’s nothing tawdry about a campaign hatchet man earning at least twice that sum as his “reward” for a) leveraging vote-buying organizations such as ACORN and, b) riding an alarmingly shallow wave of “change” to Election Night triumph.
As there is not much of a leap from “screwed up” to “screwed us”, let us count the ways the Apologizer In Chief has run his executive drill bit repeatedly through the sacred fabric of democracy since Jan. 20, 2009.
He named Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel his Chief of Staff despite Emanuel’s long, checkered past as a crony of impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
He appointed former Clinton era Justice Department insider Eric Holder as Attorney General, knowing Holder would come under scrutiny for having pardoned at least one brazen, on-the-lam tax evader (Mark “It Is Good To Be” Rich) during Holder’s time as a Clintonite. (Obama decries Goldman Sachs’ CEO earning a $72 million-plus bonus, but is thrilled to have as his chief federal law enforcer a guy, Holder, who pardoned Rich after he evaded some $48 million in taxes. And that was back in the 1980s, when $48 million was a lot of money).
He appointed as Treasury Secretary the celebrated Timothy Geithner, then stood by as Geithner acknowledged a failure to pay federal taxes in the United States while living and working abroad for the International Monetary Fund. Geithner, like some of the banks, was deemed too big to fail and the Democrat controlled Congress approved his appointment. The left wing assault dogs tore into former Treasury chief Hank Paulson for being out of touch and a poor public speaker. The suave Geithner merely broke a few laws on his way to a job that includes lording over the very Internal Revenue Service that never noticed Geithner’s filing oversights.
He wanted to appoint New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to his cabinet as Secretary of Commerce, but Richardson’s infatuation with commerce as a vehicle for enriching political donors became “an issue”.
He appointed former Democrat Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle withdrew because, well, doggone it, Obama simply could not reward Daschle’s abysmal and repeated failures to (altogether now) … PAY TAXES.
He appointed a seemingly benign individual, Nancy Killifer, to the seemingly harmless job as “the nation’s first Chief Performance Officer”. But Killifer withdrew because she had not performed very well as a private citizen. She had not remembered to … PAY TAXES.
With all of the scolding and apologizing the 44th President has endured in these turbulent past two weeks, it came as no surprise that he was not having much fun. To quote Caroline Kennedy, screwing up can be so, um, you know, tedious.
Perhaps haunted by the political carcasses littering his path, B. Hussein and his wife, Michelle Insane Obama, went looking for some future voters to make themselves feel better. Specifically, they fled to the second grade classroom of a Washington, D.C., public charter school.
“We were just tired of being in the White House,” he told the kids.
It’s a helluva job, isn’t it, Barry?
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