Hypocrisy thy name is liberalism. What a difference a few years makes.
Remember when progressive" media types chided President George W. Bush till they were blue in the face for going it alone" on Iraq? Well apparently going it alone" is totally cool if you have a D" after your name.
David Corn Washington bureau chief over at the uber-liberal Mother Jones is disappointed that an increasingly imperialist Barack Obama wasnt imperialist enough during his recent State of the Union Address. Hes furious that our already chestless Commander-in-Hearing-Himself-Talk showed off his bona fides in weakness and let the Republicans off easy."
Wrote Corn:
Obama didnt use this opportunity to focus on the reason he has to go it alone: Republicans hell-bent on disrupting the government and thwarting all the initiatives he deems necessary for the good of the nation. Even when he quasi-denounced the government shutdown he did not name-check House Speaker John Boehner and his tea-party-driven comrades."
What? All the initiatives" Obama deems necessary"? Go it alone"? Yeah Josef Stalin affectionately nicknamed Uncle Joe" by Obamas hero FDR had a lot of initiatives he deemed necessary" too. And like Obama he also preferred the go it alone" approach.
Seriously has Mr. Corn never heard of the separation of powers? The president doesnt get to just unilaterally deem" laws into effect. Hes the chief executive not the chief lawmaker. Neither should he be the chief lawbreaker.
Yet here we are and so he is.
More than any other president in American history (yes Nixon included) Obama has done both make the law" and break the law. Just consider for instance his unprecedented arbitrary capricious and completely illegal do-whatever-I-want-to-do" shredding of his signature dark comedy: Obamacare.
Get used to it. During last Tuesdays SOTU Obama announced his intention to keep at it. In fact he plans to ramp-up the lawlessness.
And why shouldnt he? A gutless GOP establishment has let him get away with it at every turn. Corn was partly right. He was justified in taking a jab at the speaker of the House. On this we agree: John Boehner needs to be checked" just not for the reasons Corn supposes.
Even some liberals are waking up to the fact that for the first time America is living under as Sen. Ted Cruz calls it the imperial presidency." In a posting originally titled Obama: Efforts to rein him in not serious" the off-the-rails-liberal CNN.com took Obama to task for his autocratic misbehavior (CNN later changed the article title to President Obama says hes not recalibrating ambitions." Amazing what an angry phone call from this White House can do to the Obama-natical state-run media).
Noted CNN:
Once Barack Obama spoke of what he wanted for his presidency in terms of healing a nation divided. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal he said.
Today Obama is talking about executive orders and executive actions with a pen or phone if a divided Congress wont or cant act on an agenda he laid out this week in his State of the Union Address. …
Sen. Ted Cruz described the actions as the imperial presidency" continued CNN and House Republicans have threatened to rein in the presidents use of executive actions.
I dont think thats very serious Obama said. …"
Right. Most despots dont take very serious" efforts to rein them in particularly when their political opposition has shown neither the courage nor the inclination to do so.
David Corn disagrees. He thinks more despotism is just what the progressive" doctor ordered. He ended his Mother Jones rant all but calling the president a weenie:
Obama barely called out Republicans in this speech; he did not exploit this high-profile moment to confront the obstructionist opposition" he complained.
Au contraire my corny little friend. Barack Hussein Obama has stored up no short supply of exploitations. Most especially he has exploited the very people he is sworn to serve.
We the people."
Hypocrisy thy name is liberalism. What a difference a few years makes.
Remember when progressive" media types chided President George W. Bush till they were blue in the face for going it alone" on Iraq? Well apparently going it alone" is totally cool if you have a D" after your name.
David Corn Washington bureau chief over at the uber-liberal Mother Jones is disappointed that an increasingly imperialist Barack Obama wasnt imperialist enough during his recent State of the Union Address. Hes furious that our already chestless Commander-in-Hearing-Himself-Talk showed off his bona fides in weakness and let the Republicans off easy."
Wrote Corn:
Obama didnt use this opportunity to focus on the reason he has to go it alone: Republicans hell-bent on disrupting the government and thwarting all the initiatives he deems necessary for the good of the nation. Even when he quasi-denounced the government shutdown he did not name-check House Speaker John Boehner and his tea-party-driven comrades."
What? All the initiatives" Obama deems necessary"? Go it alone"? Yeah Josef Stalin affectionately nicknamed Uncle Joe" by Obamas hero FDR had a lot of initiatives he deemed necessary" too. And like Obama he also preferred the go it alone" approach.
Seriously has Mr. Corn never heard of the separation of powers? The president doesnt get to just unilaterally deem" laws into effect. Hes the chief executive not the chief lawmaker. Neither should he be the chief lawbreaker.
Yet here we are and so he is.
More than any other president in American history (yes Nixon included) Obama has done both make the law" and break the law. Just consider for instance his unprecedented arbitrary capricious and completely illegal do-whatever-I-want-to-do" shredding of his signature dark comedy: Obamacare.
Get used to it. During last Tuesdays SOTU Obama announced his intention to keep at it. In fact he plans to ramp-up the lawlessness.
And why shouldnt he? A gutless GOP establishment has let him get away with it at every turn. Corn was partly right. He was justified in taking a jab at the speaker of the House. On this we agree: John Boehner needs to be checked" just not for the reasons Corn supposes.
Even some liberals are waking up to the fact that for the first time America is living under as Sen. Ted Cruz calls it the imperial presidency." In a posting originally titled Obama: Efforts to rein him in not serious" the off-the-rails-liberal CNN.com took Obama to task for his autocratic misbehavior (CNN later changed the article title to President Obama says hes not recalibrating ambitions." Amazing what an angry phone call from this White House can do to the Obama-natical state-run media).
Noted CNN:
Once Barack Obama spoke of what he wanted for his presidency in terms of healing a nation divided. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal he said.
Today Obama is talking about executive orders and executive actions with a pen or phone if a divided Congress wont or cant act on an agenda he laid out this week in his State of the Union Address. …
Sen. Ted Cruz described the actions as the imperial presidency" continued CNN and House Republicans have threatened to rein in the presidents use of executive actions.
I dont think thats very serious Obama said. …"
Right. Most despots dont take very serious" efforts to rein them in particularly when their political opposition has shown neither the courage nor the inclination to do so.
David Corn disagrees. He thinks more despotism is just what the progressive" doctor ordered. He ended his Mother Jones rant all but calling the president a weenie:
Obama barely called out Republicans in this speech; he did not exploit this high-profile moment to confront the obstructionist opposition" he complained.
Au contraire my corny little friend. Barack Hussein Obama has stored up no short supply of exploitations. Most especially he has exploited the very people he is sworn to serve.
We the people."