Obama: “Le Twat, C’est Moi”

No, he won’t admit it, so the quotation marks are, of course, spurious. But there can be no mistaking the truth of the assertion. Our president is a fool, an egomaniac who is willing to put the country’s economic future – and our citizens’ lives – at risk in order to save face in pursuit of the most ill-timed and destructive piece of legislation that we have seen in our lifetimes. That the leaders in his party are willing to support him in pulling the pin on this suicide policy-bomb reveals, for the thousandth time in recent history, the absolute moral bankruptcy of the Democrats – a moniker, incidentally, that is now saturated in tragicomic irony.

It is madness. Many Democrats seem to truly believe that a wildly unpopular bill that will subject the management of health care to the arbitrariness of faceless and indifferent bureaucrats, and citizens to the crushing expense of paying for the inefficient, rights-destroying, and life-threatening scheme, can somehow be made acceptable between now and the November elections; that the voters’ collective nose will become so accustomed to the stench of corruption and the fumes of noxious ideology emanating from the legislative tannery in Washington that all will be forgotten come autumn.

At least, this is the laughing gas that Obama, Pelosi and Reid are trying to pump into their colleagues. I strongly suspect that Obama and Pelosi must know that an electoral bloodbath is coming (Reid probably knows it, too, but since even he has to have figured out that his days in office are numbered, this vindictive husk of a man is perfectly happy to give the people a thumb in the eye on his way out of the door, a partisan hack to the end). What the President and his allies in congress and the senate genuinely hope is that, once established, this massive new entitlement will become a permanent part of our society’s landscape, irreversible and ineradicable (here they may have miscalculated; the structural parts of the entitlement would not occur before 2013, a year which, at this point, I doubt that anybody but Obama and Axelrod consider to be a sure bet for the inaugural year of an Obama second term).

Quite apart from ObamaCare, this administration is failing on practically all fronts (the lone exception, for now, being the president’s military policy in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he has followed George Bush’s playbook in toto). A string of foreign policy pratfalls – most recently the utterly pointless squabble with Israel – would have embarrassed even the hapless Jimmy Carter. In fact, were Obama and Carter to form a slapstick team, I suspect that Carter would now be playing the role of straight-man in the partnership. Then there was the push for cap-and-trade at almost the very moment that the global warming syndicate was unraveling as the result of the revelations of bad science and worse ethics. Consider, also, the employment bills that have created either 0 or 2 million jobs (pick your news outlet), but haven’t made a dent in the high unemployment rate. And the endless exhibitions of pettiness: the war against Fox News, the attack on the Supreme Court from the safety of the podium during a state of the union address; the demonization of political opponents (actual and presumed); the extraordinary overexposure on television, as the president appears with the frequency of cable commercials advertising erectile dysfunction products or Activia yogurt; sending Joe Biden anywhere, or putting him in charge of anything.

In the medieval church, the liturgical prayers included an appeal to God to “deliver us from the Turk.” With the exception of two small alterations in the spelling of the last word, I humbly offer up the same petition.


"Gee, wouldn't you know it; destiny calls and I can barely hear it over the shouting of all these tea-party morons."