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The
One Becomes The Jerk
By John Ransom
7/14/11
Obama
finally solved the budget crisis
the White House really cares about yesterday when he announced that he
hauled
in $86 million in campaign contributions for the three months ended
June 30th.
The
budget crisis facing the rest of
us?
Obama’s
really mad at the rest of us
because we are all acting very immaturely by withholding a blank check
for the
bills he’s run up.
The
White House reacted to the
breakdown in budget talks at the White House yesterday in
characteristically
ironic fashion: They scolded Republican Whip Eric Cantor’s “juvenile
behavior”
after Obama stormed out of debt negotiations, saying that Cantor must
“let the
grown-ups get to work.”
Earlier
this week the
Leave-it-to-Beaver president told us all we’d have to “eat our peas,”
like good
children, when the GOP didn’t cave in by giving him his most cherished
goal:
tax increases and more tax increases.
Clearly
the GOP hates Santa Claus,
puppies, nuns, children, all animals you can’t eat, flowers and clean
running
water.
Word
from the White House is that
Obama’s considering grounding us all and taking away our cell phones
for a year
to force the GOP back to the negotiating table.
If
that doesn’t work, Obama has vowed
that “he’ll turn this economy right around” if we don’t start sitting
up
straight.
“When
President Obama took an active
role in the talks aimed at addressing the nation’s debt ceiling, the
tone he
used to describe the closed-door negotiations…was a marked departure
from his
campaign theme of Hope and Change,” writes Steve Berglas on Forbes blog.
“Now,
since realizing that the buck
stops on his desk, he is chiding, critical, and quite pessimistic.
Obama’s once
wildly optimistic promises have been replaced by threats…. His first
order of
business…was to reprimand Democrats and Republicans as though they were
behaving like unruly, obstreperous children, in not agreeing to a plan
that
would put us deeper in debt.”
Word
to the O’man:
It’s
one thing to try to act like an
adult in the room, but when you try to act like the only adult in the
room by
holding your breath and stomping your feet, your cover’s been blown.
To
be the kind of Eddie Haskell jerk
that Mark Halperin describes Obama to be would be a big step up from
the
petulant, childish, temper-prone jackass he’s acted like since he
became the
One.
Maybe
he was that way before too. He
probably was, even before the mass idolatry subsumed what was left of
his
fragile ego that gets snappish with reporters.
But
none of that should really
surprise us after he literally and deliberately gave Hillary Clinton
the finger
in public during the presidential primary.
No other American political figure has ever
been granted the type of
exemptions from right behavior as Obama has, not even Bill Clinton.
Even
Clinton’s supporters deplored his
actions. Obama’s supporters just encourage him in his finger waving.
For
a long time, people, especially
the press- after all, they are people too, mostly- have looked at Mr.
Cool as
remote, often standoffish and arrogant.
But
perhaps there is another
explanation for his behavior.
Karl
Rove tried to explain it to us
back in 2008, but he narrowly missed it.
“Even
if you never met him, you know
this guy,” Rove said, per Christianne Klein of ABC News. “He’s the guy
at the
country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette
that
stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who
passes by.”
No;
he’s not that guy exactly.
He’s
that guy’s son.
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it with links at Townhall Finance
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