Bare, Ruined Choirs

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Commentary Magazine:

In 1723, Christopher Wren was buried in St. Paul’s, the magnificent cathedral he had rebuilt following a devastating fire in London. His epitaph concludes with the Latin phrase Si monumentum, requiris circumspece—“If you wish to see his monument, look around.” In 2017, Barack Obama will leave the White House after eight years during which he presided over the Democratic Party.

If you wish to see his monument, look around.

 

Look to your right and you will see that his designated successor lost her bid for the presidency to a man Obama himself had not only campaigned against ferociously but declared unfit to hold the nuclear codes. Look to your left and you will see the news stories detailing the possible strategies for the repeal and the replacement of the president’s signature piece of legislation, Obamacare. Then look up and down at the partisan cathedral he helped to rebuild. Its benches are, as Shakespeare said of tree branches in winter, “bare, ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” While he was the one with the nuclear codes, the Democratic Party has been hit with a neutron bomb. And on the bomb’s nose, written like the “Dear John” message on the nuke in Dr. Strangelove, were the words: “Barack Obama was here.”

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Chart: Obama's Federal Overreach Has Decimated Democrats Around The Country

 

Tuesday's presidential election didn't just mark a huge loss for Hillary Clinton, who was pummeled by Republican Donald Trump in the electoral college by breaking through her blue wall to lock down the White House, but also dealt a huge blow to Democrats at the state level around the country.

 

Over the course of President Obama's tenure, Republicans have been voted in to dominate governor's mansions and state legislatures, in additional to regaining control of the House and Senate.

The following chart, produced by the Washington Post, shows Democrats have been decimated as a result of President Obama's executive overreach.

 

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/11/14/obamas-federal-overreach-has-decimated-democrats-around-the-country-n2245537