Townhall.com ^ | May 31, 2013 | David Limbaugh
Well, let's see. Obama promised to get the economy moving, greatly improve
our health care system and reduce its costs, give us the most transparent
government, and usher in a new era of bipartisanship and racial harmony.
Some 4 1/2 years into Obama's presidency, his economy is still as lethargic
as a basset hound, and we're seeing disastrous developments on Obamacare. A
smorgasbord of major scandals is unfolding, and we've got record levels of
partisan angst and heightened racial tensions stoked by this administration.
So many shocking stories are emerging that we probably miss half of them. Did
you see the Washington Post report about how Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius personally asked health industry groups to contribute to
Enroll America, a pro-Obamacare front group that is, according to The Heritage
Foundation, working to "educate" the public about the law's supposed benefits?
Obama and his band of fellow liberal ideologues have an agenda of
fundamentally transforming America, and they're sticking to it -- no matter what
kind of problems it creates, corruption and lies it entails, or disharmony it
generates among Americans.
Perhaps this is another reason Obama never bothers to admit, much less
apologize for, his failures. In his mind, his agenda is moving forward and
that's what matters. The plethora of scandals and the myriad economic and health
care failures may be an annoyance to him, but in the end, he's getting his way.
If things don't change, we are moving rapidly toward statism overall and toward
a single-payer health insurance system. To paraphrase him, "it may take 15
years, but we'll get there."
Meanwhile, the "What, me worry?" president is, yet again, busy fundraising
and campaigning in his hometown of Chicago, insisting to his adoring die-hard
fans that "Washington is not broken" and that he could not be more eager for
Democrats to recapture control of the House in order to have Nancy Pelosi back
as speaker. Not only is Obama not contrite but he wants more authority.
Obama seemingly has endless time to play golf, take vacations and hopscotch
the United States on Air Force One to fundraise and campaign, but he's too busy
to know or even be bothered about an unfolding crisis in Benghazi, the
deliberate alteration of talking points to mislead the press and public about
the cause of the consulate attack, the selective targeting of conservative
groups by an unscrupulous Internal Revenue Service (which just so happened to do
his bidding in successfully suppressing Republican voter turnout), and the
criminal investigation of innocent journalists.
It's one thing for Obama not to be a details man, but how about a little
focus -- or even a superficial awareness -- on very serious matters?
What we are seeing from Obama (and his administration) is what we should
expect from a person who has been mostly a political agitator and activist for
his entire adult life, without any experience in rolling up his sleeves and
getting his hands dirty in actually solving the problems.
His style of governance is best-depicted by his frustrated utterance at the
failure of BP to plug the Gulf oil leak fast enough to suit him: "Just plug the
damn hole."
Obama doesn't really understand how business or even government works, but it
doesn't keep him from making specific promises he doesn't know he can keep.
He repeatedly asserted, unequivocally, that Obamacare would bend the cost
curve down and wouldn't infringe on religious liberty. He told us that if we
liked our insurance plan, we would be able to keep it.
Have you been reading the headlines lately? "Obamacare Is Driving Some
Doctors To Stop Taking Insurance Altogether." "In California, Obamacare to
Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums by 64-146 Percent." "ObamaCare to
trigger health insurance cancellation notices." "Like your health care policy?
You may be losing it." "Obamacare's Liberty-Crushing Mandate in Court."
Could it be that the public is finally waking up and at least willing to
reconsider its foolish blindness to this administration? A new Quinnipiac
University poll finds that American voters say -- by a 76-17 percent margin,
including 63-30 percent among Democrats -- that a special prosecutor should be
appointed to investigate charges that the IRS targeted conservative groups.
Further, voters aren't keen on Attorney General Eric Holder's investigating
the matter himself, and he has only a 23-29 percent job approval rating. As
Holder is President Obama's alter ego, this is significant.
But what we've yet to see is Obama himself being held accountable for his
fraudulent promises, his policy failures and this staggering corruption.
Like it or not, these things are his doing. He is in charge; he is the one
who made the false promises; he established the policy goals that are to be
achieved at almost any cost; and he has created the climate leading to this
lawlessness. In the modern vernacular, this is on him.
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