Obama trolls, talks trash with a purpose

[Valin]

Washington Examiner:

Byron York

January 19, 2015

 

Politically, President Obama has never been weaker, after losing both House and Senate. At the same time, he has never talked tougher. There is a connection between the two.

 

Obama recently told Democratic lawmakers that he's going to "play offense" in coming months. Coming from a man with a history of occasional trash talk — "I'm LeBron, baby" — it's tempting to dismiss this as just more chatter. What is Obama doing, going on offense after his party suffered such a resounding defeat in November?

 

Conservative writers John Podhoretz and Jonah Goldberg argue the president just can't resist trolling Republicans. Liberal Paul Waldman essentially agrees, admiring Obama's ability to "come up with a new idea every couple of weeks to drive [the GOP] up a wall."

 

It's true the president seems to take real pleasure in annoying his adversaries. But there's a serious strategy behind it.

 

With no real political clout on Capitol Hill and a job approval rating that has stayed mostly below 50 percent for a long time, Obama is trying to leverage the power he has left to force his agenda on the Republican majority. His big talk, executive actions, and outlandish proposals are the best ways he has to control the debate in Washington.

 

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[clearvision]

Hmmm, I more took it for him throwing a temper tantrum than going on offense.

[Cyber_Liberty]

FTA:

 

That doesn't have to happen this time. Republicans have the mojo and the momentum. They just got elected, have fresh faces in their new majority, and have several ready-to-go agenda items that had been bottled up in the Senate under now-former Majority Leader Harry Reid. If they are united, and if they are smart, Republicans can push Obama into a defensive crouch.

 

"If they are smart?" Folks, we're in a heap of trouble with the Crying Cheeto for a speaker and a man with no chin for a Senate Majority Leader.

 

@clearvision, that's what I expect too. The analogy that popped into my mind as I was reading Byron's article was, "Babies can demand, and get, attention any time they want, just by tugging at the edge of the tablecloth." Obama's always threatening to destroy what order we have left. What I find so fascinating about all this is not that he's accomplished so much with this tactic, but how little he has achieved for his side. There's a good jump-link in the article about how he didn't get much after last year's SOTU.

[SrWoodchuck]

FTA:

 

That doesn't have to happen this time. Republicans have the mojo and the momentum. They just got elected, have fresh faces in their new majority, and have several ready-to-go agenda items that had been bottled up in the Senate under now-former Majority Leader Harry Reid. If they are united, and if they are smart, Republicans can push Obama into a defensive crouch.

 

"If they are smart?" Folks, we're in a heap of trouble with the Crying Cheeto for a speaker and a man with no chin for a Senate Majority Leader.

 

@clearvision, that's what I expect too. The analogy that popped into my mind as I was reading Byron's article was, "Babies can demand, and get, attention any time they want, just by tugging at the edge of the tablecloth." Obama's always threatening to destroy what order we have left. What I find so fascinating about all this is not that he's accomplished so much with this tactic, but how little he has achieved for his side. There's a good jump-link in the article about how he didn't get much after last year's SOTU.

 

@Cyber_Liberty! Like the Crying Cheeto analogy.

 

Obama's win in 2012....devastated the Democratic party more than a Romney presidency would have done.

 

He not only is the all time NRA gun salesman....he's an Progressive "nesting doll" of an enigma.

 

A psychopathic, metro-sexual political chimera, with the "pseudo-head" of a constitutional professor, the tail of a lifetime member of Man's Country-Chicago, the heart of a socialist party secretary, feet of clay & hands that were the exact opposite of King Midas....turning all things to poop with the stoke of his mighty pen.

 

He breathes equal measures of contempt & mendacity.....and the only thing bigger than his complete failure....is his ego.