Let’s continue to talk about the ramifications of last week’s elections. Why? Because it’s a relief to finally have something positive to say about politics in our country. Most people understand what those elections meant. I say “most” because there are some who still just don’t get it:
The hypocrisy and self-serving nature of Obama’s response is pretty blatant. At his now-infamous press conference the day after the elections, he revealed that he isn’t changing his views on anything. And he tried the same old tired lines about how reasonable he is and how he’s oh-so-willing to work with Republicans. Well, he’s said that for six years and never followed through. The evidence?
Every time Republicans in the House sent a bill to the Senate for debate, it disappeared into a Harry Reid black hole, never to be seen again. Everyone knows this was done at President Obama’s direction. He never sought to have an honest debate about any issue and continued to say Republicans had no ideas, when, in fact, they had been brimming with ideas backed up by legislation.
His now widely ridiculed remark about how he “hears” the 2/3 who didn’t vote—more, apparently, than those who truly cared to vote and who sent the real message—again reveals his inner Barack, the One who believes the people who “really” count are all for him. The actual voters? Not so much.
Commentator Jonah Goldberg has some salient points to make about the one-note Obama presence at this news conference:
But as Obama droned on and on in that press conference on Wednesday, it felt like a horrible realization was washing over the Johnny Bravo Fan Club [the White House press corps]: Obama’s grown stale. Johnny Bravo has a shelf-life. There was Obama prattling on and on about how he had a mandate, he heard the voice of the non-voters, the GOP has an obligation to do what he wants, he did nothing wrong, blah blah blah. It was all so tone deaf and otherworldly and—most of all—it was so unfathomably boring. As I joked on Twitter, he could have seamlessly segued into reading the instructions for how to change the toner cartridge on a Xerox machine and the audience might not have noticed.
Maybe I’m wrong. But it kind of feels like Obama is a karaoke singer who doesn’t realize someone unplugged the machine. He’s out their belting out his golden oldies and no one is tapping their toes any more.
Thomas Sowell, the black conservative commentator and scholar, also has weighed in on the meaninglessness of Obama’s reign and offers a warning for those who were fooled by him and his promises. If you were fooled once, why would you fall for a second false scenario?
The all-important 2016 election now looms large. Have we learned our lesson?