American Poobah
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
It’s nice to have a modern leader in office.
In the olden days, Congress passed the laws and the President faithfully carried them out. Nowadays, Congress passes laws and the President does as he chooses. He faithfully carries out those parts of the law that he likes, when he feels like it, exempting friends and delaying implementation at whim. And if a problem arises, no need to go back to Congress for amendments, he changes the law of the land by press conference.
President isn’t really a fitting title for that sort of leader. King? Supreme Leader?
I’ll go with “Czar”.
They should give the Beltway media really snazzy uniforms. Like the Swiss Guard.
November 15th, 2013 at 7:40 am
It’s better than that.
Barry cited his refusal to enforce immigration laws as justification to refuse to enforce Obamacare, which Barry & his moonbat chorus have been reminding us ad nauseum is “the law of the land”.
Can’t we just impeach this POS and move forward?
November 15th, 2013 at 7:42 am
BTW and speaking of Poobah’s. Bob Collins is cleansing News Cut of any criticism of Obamacare. If you point out the damage it’s causing, you’re a troll.
Thought MPR was a publicly funded joint….
November 15th, 2013 at 7:46 am
somewhere in hell Hugo Chavez is smiling at our Dear Leader
November 15th, 2013 at 8:28 am
To me, the most astounding thing is the idea that the President simply decides which parts of the law he will choose to enforce and which ones he won’t. The fact that ACA has so many passages that begin or end with “the Secretary shall determine” means the Democrats never had any intention of this being legislation that fell under the Rule of Law but rather the Rule of Man.
November 15th, 2013 at 9:17 am
Wasn’t DogGone telling us it was “settled law” last month. This must be “unsettling” news for the left. Everything Ted Cruz and the Tea Party said is coming true right before their eyes.
November 15th, 2013 at 9:47 am
The media believe that ramming a law through congress that socializes 1/6 of the largest economy on earth is the action of a moderate, while opposing this is ‘extremist’. What can you do when you face a headwind like that?
November 15th, 2013 at 10:27 am
The fact that ACA has so many passages that begin or end with “the Secretary shall determine” means the Democrats never had any intention of this being legislation that fell under the Rule of Law but rather the Rule of Man.
The fun part is that the Democrats assumed there’d never be a Republican president again, ever. Those passages will come back to haunt them.
November 15th, 2013 at 11:07 am
What I enjoy is watching every single talking point Dog Gone defecates here being shredded, in real time, by the very jug-eared POTUS she worships. And then, AND THEN, she doesn’t even realize it even happened and starts spewing the next litany of talking points.
November 15th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Czar seems a bit too positive and mature a term. Again, like the Billy Mumy Twilight Zone character, he’s acts like a self-entitled, self-interested, self-centered, self-gratifiying spoiled child. His blind determination to get his way, and blind rage at anyone who opposes him, regardless of how insignificant, is his most defining trait.
His frequent habit “intercepting” the joint in his “shroom gang (sp?)” days was quite telling. Although in the story his fellow members laughed it off as an endearing Barry-ism, I think it was a very telling and predictive behavior.
We’ve all known the type; always got the first and last piece of pizza, arrived too late to help on moving day but always grabbed the left-behind items, always rode but never drove, and called the shots, took the praise, but never the blame.
He probably had to be that way while growing up, but you’d think his handlers would have redirected that energy into a more positive but less obvious force.
November 15th, 2013 at 1:56 pm
Swiftee, I think the remedy you’re looking for is larger than impeachment, as it was in 1776:
“He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.”
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November 15th, 2013 at 6:40 pm
“The fun part is that the Democrats assumed there’d never be a Republican president again, ever.”
Check out what happened in Annapolis, MD ya nerd. A Republican was elected mayor there for the first time in three decades and the majority Democrat council decided that now is exactly the right time to implement a city manager form of government making the mayor a ceremonial position. Like I always say, when the Democrats rid themselves of their Bull Conner / Fascist factions, I’ll vote Democrat again.