
The great baseball writer Bill James once opined, only partly tongue in cheek, that the one among the Lord’s divine duties that He really seemed to enjoy was punishing arrogance and hubris. Certainly history tells us that the Oval Office has served up a steaming plate of humble pie to many better men than Barack Obama over the years, and now it’s his turn. Recall the swagger of Obama as recently as January 23:
As the president, he had told Kyl after the Arizonan raised objections to the notion of a tax credit for people who don’t pay income taxes, Obama told Cantor this morning that “on some of these issues we’re just going to have ideological differences.”
The president added, “I won. So I think on that one, I trump you.”
To this, just eleven days later:
President Barack Obama on Tuesday abruptly abandoned his nomination fight for Tom Daschle and a second major appointee who failed to pay all their taxes, telling NBC News: “I screwed up.”
“I’ve got to own up to my mistake. Ultimately, it’s important for this administration to send a message that there aren’t two sets of rules — you know, one for prominent people and one for ordinary folks who have to pay their taxes,” Obama said on NBC’s “Nightly News with Brian Williams.”
It’s a little late for that last one, of course. More lessons will undoubtedly be on the way. Unfortunately for Obama, every day is not Inauguration Day.
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And Brian Williams failed to ask the important question..
Attack Mode (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 11:21AM EST (link)He should have asked Pres. Obama if there really aren’t two sets of rules why is Timothy Geithner still Treasury Sect.?
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
What MSM "journalist"
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 11:39AM EST (link)would have the stones to get in his face and ask THAT question?
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
Do We Really Need All These "Interviews"?
Spartan4Life (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 12:12PM EST (link)Seems very un-presidential to me.
Shouldn’t he have something more important to do?
He probably remembers
Paul_In_Houston Wednesday, February 4th at 1:48PM EST (link)what happened when a plumber asked him a question.
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Irony: Barack and Tim announcing CEO pay limits
jonreagan (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 11:22AM EST (link)You know, one thing the Obama crowd did always manage to do well was stagecraft….but I think they’re even losing their touch at that.
I’m watching CNBC, as BO announces the new limits they’ve conjured up on the salaries of bank CEO’s (part of the Democrat party’s “bonus derangement syndrome”) . And who does he have as his sidekick to announce these profound, momentous changes?
Yep….his resident tax cheat, Tim Geithner. Of course, when you cheat on your taxes, you’ve kind of desinged your own bonus, don’t ya think?
Unbelievable that the day after the fall of Daschle and the other nominee, Obama would make Tim Geithner the poster boy for punishing Wall Street CEO’s—the majority of whose only sin was apparently being well paid. But as Barack told us a few days ago, now is not the time for profits.
We told you so!
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 11:29AM EST (link)I think we are going to get many opportunities to say that. And he’s only been in office 2 weeks.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
How About Messiah to Buffoon?
Spartan4Life (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 11:38AM EST (link)That doesn’t seem such a leap, either.
Every time he speaks, it seems to me, Obama demonstrates he knows very little about the economy, is not prepared to lead, and generally is in way over his head.
I have come to believe his learning curve is even longer than Clinton’s was in 1992 and it took Slick Willie at least a couple of years to figure out that the less he listened to the Far Left, the better off he and the rest of us were all going to be. Something tells me that Obama might not get it as quickly.
He's drowning
Maggie_in_Indiana (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 12:53PM EST (link)and grasping for a life preserver. The life preserver being the passage of the Porkulus bill. Ads on his behalf are running everywhere for folks of their state to call their GOP Senators and tell them to vote for this monster. Assuming the Democrat Senators will fall in line and just vote as the House did. If the Democrats would read the darn thing instead of the GOP ,talk radio,and a handful of the media exposing the spending for them,they might think twice about their re-election in 2010. How long will they prop up thier incompetent Leader and risk their careers?
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"I screwed up"
Lammo (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 1:08PM EST (link)I wonder how many of the induhviduals (thanks Dogbert) who voted for the former junior senator from the State of Illinois are thinking exactly that right about now. Oh wait, if they were thinking they wouldn’t have . . . never mind.
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (John Corapi, The Black Sheep Dog)
And to think...
Jeff Weimer (Diary) Wednesday, February 4th at 2:29PM EST (link)They were screaming to the high hills about Sarah Palin being too inexperienced to be second in command.
If course, they couldn’t be bothered to see if this guy was really ready for the top job – “That’s just Republicans being their nasty, partisan selves. Pay no attention, they see they’re about to lose and they’re grasping at straws.”
Hmmph.
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire
It's kind of funny...
devCharles Wednesday, February 4th at 4:02PM EST (link)but I turned on CNN last night and they had the big title saying Obama: “I screwed up.” Upon seeing that, I wondered…is he talking about the stimulus, the appointments, or overselling his ability to bring immediate change during the election?
Apparently, it’s the appointments. Fair enough.
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism.” – Ronald Regan