Category Archives: Obama
Curse The Crisis
An insubordinate White House staff ignored President Obama’s order to “plug the damn hole”. That made the president very angry. As he told Matt Lauer , “If you want a job done right…”
Obama then exercised the Emanuel Doctrine, “Never Waste a Crisis”, by recycling an old Cap and Trade bill. Here’s James Delingpole in the UK Telegraph on that.
President Canute
Obama accepted the Democratic nomination two years ago by remarking that the occasion marked the moment when “our planet began to heal” and the “rise of the oceans began to slow”. Mark Steyn riffs on the subject here.
Presidents Without Borders
Obama pronounced us not defined by our borders and promptly joined Mexican President Felipe Calderon in trashing Arizona for its immigration law. Senator Arlen Specter, now spurned by both democrats and republicans, doesn’t find himself bound by much of anything. At the end of Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999, Specter relied on Scottish Law to vote “not proved”
