I
was tempted to declare my prediction of the Downfall of Obama fulfilled on
Election Night - the results should make him a very lame duck indeed. But I
held back in part because Obama is so ideological and such a tyrannical egomaniac that
I suspected he would not embrace lame luck status well even though it does
provide more opportunity to play golf.
Sure
enough, in his press conference the day after, Obama indicated he is more
interested in continuing to be a divisive tyrant than in humbly acknowledging
the message of the election. He
began by saying he heard the voters, but spent the rest of the time indicating he did not listen to them at all.
Further, he made clear he intends to continue to be a very divisive
figure.
He made all this very clear early on when he reiterated his intention to issue an
executive amnesty. And that in the
face of an election that rejected that and so-called immigration reform as
well. Heck, even Oregon, yes,
Oregon punctuated that message by rejecting drivers licenses for illegals by
about a 2-to-1 margin.
Voters on
Obama’s Immigration Plans: Drop Dead. Obama to Voters: Drop Dead http://t.co/ZaHNngrPLF via
@NRO #STOPObama
—
WannabeAnglican (@WannabeAnglican) November
7, 2014
As
I watched the press conference, the import of Obama restating his intention to
issue an executive amnesty hit me immediately:
Obama just said
he's going to go #tyrant
on #immigration.
It's war.
— WannabeAnglican (@WannabeAnglican) November
5, 2014
And
it will indeed get ugly and fast.
But
I am not at all sure how the ugliness will play out. IF there are one or more
smoking guns that tie Obama directly to such enormities as IRS targeting or the
numerous regime cover-ups, the political atmosphere and Democrat weariness of him could
be such that impeachment could become more thinkable.
But
that is a big “if” for two reasons:
1. As I’ve stated before, Obama’s detached
style of governance makes connecting him directly to the enormities of his
administration very difficult. It
is not unlike how the Mafia operates.
2. It is in the political interests of
Republicans to keep a hate figure like Obama as President. If Obama continues to be a weight
around Democrats’ necks, the odds of Republican victory in 2016 increase.
At
the other extreme of possibilities is that Republicans will prove so clumsy in
handling Obama’s act that they are harmed politically more than Obama. Heck they may even manage to make Obama
look good in the eyes of many.
But
surely, McConnell and Boehner are not that incompetent, right?. . . . Right??
Probably,
Obama’s last two years will have a result between the above two extremes. But I am sure that, with Obama pretty
much stating he has no problem going full tyrant even when public opinion and
even an election is against him, the last two years are going to get ugly and
fast.
Sorry. And please remember not to shoot the messenger. Thank you.
---
Downfall
is an ongoing series anticipating and tracking the possible self-destruction of
Obama.
1 comment:
Kirsten Powers is my favorite liberal commentator. She actually learns from events and can say she was wrong about something. Recently, she made a seemingly casual remark that there was "a disconnect between the way events are seen in the White House and the way everybody else sees them." She seemed genuinely troubled by that, as should we all be. The next two years may well make Watergate look like a tea party. The 25th Amendment, which covers removing a President for incapacity, is something which people should be looking at rather than impeachment.
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