Obama: all hat and no cows!

The case against O is becoming stronger and stronger.

 

His political narrative has suddenly lost its flare and, as one member of the press noted, he appears to be losing his juice. O's visit to Mexico was a non-event. He ended up insinuating that the current round of violence in Mexico is due partly to the supply of guns from the USA. You can imagine what the right wing press did with that statement. Left to the spinners, it is all our fault that Mexico is dominated by ruthless gangsters, drug runners and kidnappers.

 

His reaction to the Sequester also has him losing popularity.

 

Charles Krauthammer recently noted, O never thought the Sequester would go through, so he called the Republican's bluff and lost. Worse, for him, nothing happened and we did not go down the proverbial economic drain. In retaliation, and perhaps to emphasize a losing point, O decided to save money by suspending tours of the White House.

 

That must have saved the taxpayer a few thousand dollars. More recently, he ordered air traffic controllers to be furloughed. After a day of serious flight cancellations, the Republicans quickly passed legislation to fund the air traffic controllers thereby effectively negating O's furlough caper. Flights are back on schedule and O has egg all over his face.

 

The spectacular failure of a very weak and ineffective gun control bill sponsored by O took another string from his bow. It may well be that the current interest in passing some form of Immigration Bill may meet the same end.

 

Were O from Texas, we might say he is all hat and has no cows. He is cool, but without content and vision. He has built up minorities, especially African Americans to the point where their rising expectations may well be reduced to rising frustrations and worse. All in all, O is in the political doldrums without much hope of a good wind.

 

Nor did the success of Congress in reintroducing inquiries into the Benghazi incident help O's declining popularity.

 

The majority of Americans believed that there were not more than a handfull of Americans at the Consulate when it was attacked. Now we understand there were about 30, some of whom were wounded and are still recuperating. Their silence, it is now revealed, has not been voluntary. It was engineered by State and Defense Department personnel who threatened the survivors with seriously reduced job security should they take it upon themselves to tell the rest of the story.

 

It is incidents such as these that dramatically erode public confidence in not only the O administration, but American politics in general. As long as our leaders are willing to lie and intimidate to preserve their power and status, we as a country are worse off. O has some big questions to answer in this regard, and so does Hillary, but everyone doubts they ever will.