Remember when sycophants such as Christopher Buckley, David Brooks, and Peggy Noonan crooned over Obama’s “first class temperament” and even (in Brooks’ case) the crease in his pants? Well the Golfer-in-chief has acted like the spoiled, petulant child that we all suspected him to be. In fact he acts as if he has had a nervous breakdown with the tantrums, pouting, and storming out of meetings. We have found the issues in which to beat him on and it is apparent that he cannot deal with any opposition and will become immature and whiny when he meets firms resistance. The man/child cannot take a punch.
by John Hayward
On Friday, right after his Democrat colleagues in the Senate used a procedural maneuver to kill the Cut, Cap and Balance Act without a real vote, President Obama held a town hall meeting at the University of Maryland before a carefully screened, very supportive audience. He said a few interesting things in this relaxed and comfortable environment.
Obama blamed divided government for the debt ceiling crisis. “I’m sympathetic to your view that this would be easier if I could do this entirely on my own,” he told a questioner who brought up the theory, fashionable in some liberal circles, that the 14th Amendment gives the President power to raise the debt ceiling unilaterally. The President went on to remark, with a chuckle, that this would give him more time to spend with his daughters.
In addition to recoiling in horror at the thought of America’s chief executive being arrogant enough to even speculate about the joys of dictatorship out loud, a thoughtful town hall attendee might ask why the Democrats didn’t balance the budget when they had total control of Washington from 2009 to 2010, and point out that they have controlled both houses of Congress since 2006. But you’re not supposed to ask questions like that.
Obama also told his audience that “it’s hard to keep up with all the different plans” for handling the debt crisis. No, it isn’t. There’s are only two real plans: the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act, which enjoys the support of a huge majority of Americans, or leaving the debt ceiling where it is. There are no other plans. There are only vague outlines… absolutely none of which have come from President Obama, who has made no concrete proposals at all.
[…]
On the topic of his conduct so far, the architect of the new Depression said, “we’ve made good choices so far.” (I am not making this up. He really said that.) He also declared, “The United States of America doesn’t run out without paying the tab. We pay our bills. We meet our obligations.”
Um… Mr. President? Running a huge deficit means, by definition, that you are not “paying your bills,” and you are the one who keeps threatening that your government will not “meet its obligations,” by shutting off Social Security checks, veterans benefits, and other essential services.
It’s time to face the unpleasant truth. President Barack Hussein Obama has gone mad.
He’s mad in both senses of the word. Later on Friday, after House Speaker John Boehner declared he would no longer waste his time “negotiating” with Obama, the President gave an astonishing press conference that played out like a nervous breakdown. I don’t know why the press covered it. They really shouldn’t cover any of his press conferences anymore. The price of a seat at the negotiating table is a plan, and Obama doesn’t have one.
There is no reason to pay the slightest attention to anything else the President says, until he produces a concrete proposal with real numbers. Otherwise, as Boehner discovered, no meaningful “negotiation” can occur.
[…]
He mouths the language of fiscal responsibility knowing the media will never even ask him to define the words he’s using. Afterward, they hold round-table discussions that turn into Mad Hatter tea parties, because they pretend the President actually has serious ideas about deficit reduction. Meanwhile, at the University of Maryland, Obama wrapped up his town hall by promising the audience… another “stimulus” package, and more “infrastructure” spending.
Some “deficit hawk.” This delusional President needs to be controlled and neutralized, not bargained with. He’s demonstrated nothing more clearly than his determination to keep writing gigantic rubber checks, until the checkbook and pen are taken away from him. He’s among the final champions of a system that sinks further into madness as its foundational assumptions are revealed to be expensive frauds. Besides being delusional, this system is dangerously paranoid, because it thinks all of its problems can be solved by designating the proper combination of enemies.
Insanity, as defined by Albert Einstein, is doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results. The President himself just said, before one of the last few friendly audiences his handlers could cobble together for him, that “every Democratic and Republican president” has tried the same thing he wants to try again… and yet, our insolvent sham of a government is about to slam into a debt ceiling 14.3 trillion dollars high.
As for the rest of us, sanity is still an option. We won’t like what happens on the day it becomes inescapable.
Read the rest: Barack the Mad
