It won’t take long.
Barack Obama often speaks of his magnanimity with regard for his willingness to compromise:
I think that if you look at my track record over the last four years, I have consistently sought compromise, sometimes to the point where Democrats have been mad at me . . .
If you look at both my polices as well as the approach that I’ve taken in governing, there’s a lot of overlap between what I’m proposing and what Republicans have proposed n the past – I take their ideas all the time. What we haven’t seen is a willingness on the other side to engage in the basic compromises that are required for governance.
There’s only one problem. It’s bullsh*t. The list of Obama compromises is painfully brief.
Name them. Go ahead. I dare you.
Barack Obama began his tenure in office with the declaration
“I won”
during the stimulus negotiations.
Republicans were shut out of the conference negotiations for Obama’s stimulus package in 2009.
There was no Republican input into Obamacare.
Obama set the tone for his entire Presidency. He was in charge and he wasn’t in the mood for any dissent.
Not much has changed since then. He talks big but that’s all it is- talk. Only once has Obama actually compromised on something- extending the Bush tax cuts in 2010.
That’s the end of the list. There is nothing else.
There is a very long list of times that Obama has said “I will not compromise.”
Obama: ‘I Will Not Compromise’ on Debt Ceiling
Obama: ‘I Won’t Compromise’ on Taxes
Obama Calls John Boehner, Says He Still Won’t Negotiate
Obama hits GOP, refuses to broker budget compromise
“Obama I will not compromise” gets 90 million hits on Google.
When Obama demands compromise, he means capitulation. He does not mean compromise. He talks compromise and the press eats it up, but then most of them are democrats to begin with and only know what Obama tells them they know.
When Obama constantly berates and trivializes the opposition it is normal human nature to respond negatively. He always frames the opposition as morally inferior.
Note carefully what is being asserted here. It’s not just that Democratic ideas are morally superior to Republican ones or that Barack Obama is a better president, or a better man, than Mitt Romney or would be, or is. Rather, the claim is that whereas billionaires who support Romney are greedy and selfish, those who back Obama are altruistic–or, to the extent they have a selfish motive, it is a relatively benign one, a simple desire to be in the presence of the Dear Leader.
It’s a leftist cliché that money corrupts politics. These leftists, however, believe that their politics somehow purifies money–that writing a check to Obama for America is an act of moral money-laundering.
Anyone disagreeing with Obama is a racist.
The blind squirrel who writes at the NY Times and is otherwise known as David Brooks said this:
“But if I had to fault President Obama, I would say that sometimes he governs like a visitor from a morally superior civilization.
“He comes in here, and he will not — he’ll talk with [House Speaker John] Boehner, [but] he won’t talk with the other Republicans. He hasn’t built the trust.”
No he hasn’t. And he never will.
Obama outsources leadership as he does not like to dirty his hands with the minutiae of governing. He has failed to build friendships in Congress because it is beneath the aloof Obama.
In his book, The Price of Politics, Bob Woodward portrays the president as a distant character who spends little time forging relationships with members of Congress, and who has equally cool relationships with the business community.
Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.
By Woodward’s account, the supremely self-confident Obama thought he had House Speaker John Boehner pegged as the type of Republican he knew in the Illinois Legislature. “John Boehner is like a Republican state senator,” the president told staff, according to Woodward. “He’s a golf-playing, cigarette-smoking country-club Republican who’s there to make a deal. He’s very familiar to me.”
But several sources involved in the most recent budget negotiations between Obama and Boehner tell me that the president failed to connect with Boehner. The president dominated conversations and had a habit of describing the speaker’s political options at length, which Boehner found both boring and insulting.
Obama rarely invested time in getting to know Boehner. Woodward reported this telling anecdote: After the 2010 elections made Boehner the incoming speaker, Obama couldn’t make a congratulatory call until the White House scrambled to find his telephone number, eventually turning to a fishing pal of somebody who worked for Boehner.
As a community organizer, Barack Obama is a lot like Jesse Jackson. He stomps his feet, makes threats and casts insults and expects to be placated. Obama still is that community organizer. He still hasn’t come to fully understand why people do not understand his perfection and won’t bow to his every whim. He doesn’t compromise. He doesn’t negotiate.
He’s no Ronald Reagan. He’s not even Bill Clinton.
Consequently, he is is a failure. He’s gone from promising the oceans would stop rising and the planet would heal to pleading for a rise in the minimum wage.
Instead of trying to genuinely seek compromise, he’s doubling down on his threat to circumvent Congress.
Amie Parnes, who so dependably pimps Obama at The Hill, unwittingly captures why Obama goes so wrong:
On the heels of a lackluster year, where President Obama couldn’t get much done with Congress, the White House is hoping to use private and public partnerships, along with executive actions, to add to President Obama’s legacy.
Once again, country be damned. It’s all about him.
It’s always been about him. One expects politicians to have big egos but Obama takes narcissism to new heights. When the country needed jobs, Obama gave it a health care takeover suppository and now his signature achievement is in tatters.
People are beginning to figure out that Obama says a lot of things but his words are hollow. He doesn’t mean them. DrJohn’s Law. For too long Obama has been able to make claims of willingness to compromise without having to offer any examples or proof.
Still, the left desperately continues to characterize anyone who disagrees with or holds a different view from them or Obama as racists, traitors, extremists and more, but here’s what I have to say about that:
I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.
image courtesy of fellowshipoftheminds.com
UPDATE
I have added to the title to reflect more accurately the intention of the article. The substance remains unchanged.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
@Richard Wheeler:
Either way, it’s gonna be hard for the Californians to get above it. Most other states won’t have a problem, with exception of Ill, Mich, N.Jer,Wa, Or. New York.
@Richard Wheeler:
You’re taking my score, eh? I’m not going against Manning. I think about 24-17 or maybe 28-17
@Redteam: Why leave out all the other consistently Dem. states like Pa.Conn.Mass Minn.Wi, Me.Del,R.I. etc.etc. Demographics will strongly favor a Dem/Indy electorate in the 21st Century.
I’m not taking your score—if you like 21-17 Broncos keep it. How bout over/under 41–I’ll take under.
Current line is Denver-2.5 o/u 47.5
@Richard Wheeler:
Don’t know what that means. I’m not a gambler.
They display a little common sense occasionally. The states I listed are in the minus column. Have the flaming idiots such as Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein.
RW, this about Feinstein, a true Fruitcake. Do you agree with her that veterans that have been in combat should have their Second Amendment rights nullified? You sent her your guns?
http://readychimp.com/2014/01/29/hypocrisy-after-a-night-of-applause-for-veterans-feinsteins-comments-haunt-her/
@Redteam:You’re the guy always asking to be properly quoted Show me a “veterans are insane” quote. Didn’t happen.
As far as mental illness–we should try to assure that no one who is mentally ill should have access to firearms–a tall order in itself. Wouldn’t you agree?
@Richard Wheeler:
I provided the link to the statement.
I agree that mentally ill persons shouldn’t have firearms. I don’t think that should be a blanket indictment of combat veterans. You mailed your guns to Feinstein yet?
RW, here’s what she said:
You can read that anyway you desire, but basically she is saying that a combat vet has to prove they are not impaired before they can own a gun. The way the law works, here in America for those that believe in the constitution, is that someone has to prove that they ARE impaired. They don’t have to prove they’re not. When you came back from Nam, how would you ‘prove’ that you were not impaired by your experience? Why would the burden be on you to prove that? If someone believes you are not a fit parent, it has to be proven, doesn’t it? But then there a Liberals that don’t believe in those rights, i.e., Feinstein.
@Redteam: “Blanket indictment of combat veterans.” Hyperbole
A BIT OF PTSD IS BETTER THAN A BUNCH OF DEMOCRATS ,
TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM OBAMA,
as we notice now,
@Richard Wheeler:
LOL, her requirement is that if you are a combat vet, you have to prove you are not mentally impaired. That sounds like a blanket to me. Who is left out from under her blanket? And you don’t believe that Californians are among the dumbest in the US?
and who should try to assure that person is or not mentally ill,
OR IS,
whoever they are, they are not to be trusted if they affiliate with democrat,
which are, by looking at their action not qualified, and less mentaly fit than the WARRIORS,
comming back from hell, naturaly shaken by the vision of hell, BUT NOT MENTALY ILL BY IT, because they went further than the civilians went or will ever go in their lives,
so it make any psychiatrist un fit to label our military any time soon. only one who went to war can understand the limitless
ways the warriors went through to wage that war,
they have demonstrated the outmost intelligence way above the elected in government and also the citizens can grasp,
so when a person dress with his combat uniform is back in
AMERICA, THE REST OF HUMANS CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THEY ARE CLOSE TO A SUPER BEING, IN EVERYWAY YOU WANT TO THINK , AND IT’S INCONCIEVEBLE TO SEE SOME SLEEPING IN THE STREET, LEFT HOMELESS, BY A SOCIETY WHO OWE THEIR FREEDOM TO THEM, AND PASS BY THE OPPORTUNITY TO
BE GENEROUS FOR THEM, WHO GAVE IT ALL AND DO NOT EVER ASK FOR NOTHING, BUT COULD RUN THIS AMERICA BETTER THAN ANYONE,THEY HAVE SO MUCH TO GIVE US ALL,
LET ME ADD TO IT, THAT IT’S INCONCIEVEBLE TO THINK THE WARRIORS WHERE NOT GIVEN THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT TO PREVENT THEM FROM BEEING BLOWN UP, AND DISABLE FOR LIFE,
THAT IS THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENNT TO HAVE NOT GONE THE EXTRAMILE SO TO CREATE HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE CREATE THAT COMPONENT WHICH COULD IN FRONT OF THE WARRIORS DETECT THE IEDS WAY BEFORE THEY HIT ANY ONE,
ALL THESES 12 YEARS DEMONSTRATE A FAILURE BLATANT AND UNFORGIVEBLE BY SOCIETY, TO PROTECT IT’S MILITARY,FULLY,
WHEN THE LEADER SPENT MULTIPLE TRILLIONS ON LESS WORTHWHILE STUFF,
@Redteam: Actually RT, you self proclaimed “proud redneck.” I’m with Foxworthy on this.
“You might be a redneck if your husband walks your son to school because they’re both in the 6TH grade.”
.
GOVERNOR JANE BREWER, YOU ARE NOT TOO HARD, YOU ARE RIGHT TO DEMAND THE BORDERS BE SECURE, IT’S UNBELIEVEBLE WHAT YOU AND OTHER ALONG THE LINE ARE PUTTING UP WITH AND WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM THE FEDERALS WHO COME ONLY TO INTIMIDATE YOU AND THE CITIZENS,
who also put up in a big way, with the flow of many millions of foreigners where many are dangerous criminals and hate
AMERICA enought to hurt the AMERICANS,
and can you believe it, while obama is trying to disarmed the gun carriers any way he can, and
make the illegals all legitime without question,
@Richard Wheeler:
That means I can see life from more than one point of view and can laugh at the pretense of what redneck means.
Do you know any adult in the 6th grade? I don’t. Not in the South, maybe California. But you can rent a tuxedo in a hardware store in Florida. I’ve been in that hardware store.
but then:
is what the subject was. Do you think you should have to prove you ARE NOT mentally impaired (just because you’re a combat vet) before you can buy a gun? Or, do you think someone should have to prove that you ARE mentally impaired before they can prevent you from buying a weapon? What do you think the constitution would have to say about that if it could talk?
@Redteam: I believe the discussion was about a bill proposing certain restrictions on the purchase of assault weapons.
I believe Feinstein was wrong when she said PTSD originated in Iraq.If someone is mentally impaired or struggling with PTSD they should be restricted from the purchase of an assault weapon, or any weapon, until medically cleared. This includes law enforcement and military vets.
My statement disputed if Feinstein ever said “all Vets are insane” or ” all Vets have PTSD.” She did not.Hyberbole
This is not a carte blanche endorsement of Feinstein’s handling of this issue. Our Vets should always be treated with the utmost respect.
@Richard Wheeler:
I can’t find a quote where she said that. However, she did say and I quoted it, that ALL combat vets should have to prove they do not have a mental problem before they can buy a weapon. My contention is that they should have to be proven of a mental problem to be denied. The burden on the government to prove their impairment, not the other way around. Do you agree with her, that since you are a combat vet, you have a mental impairment and that until you can prove that you do not, you can’t buy a weapon. That’s the problem.
@Redteam:
She was in a committee meeting.
Her quote:
The bill failed to pass.
But I would note that before it was called PTSD, we had other names for the same thing….
Delayed Stress Syndrome.
Delayed Stress Disorder.
Battle Fatigue.
Shell Shock.
War is hell, but, going through this, by ANY name, does not equal being insane.
Having been in SF during gay parades including bare-assed chaps and inflated scrotums, I find it odd she considers gays to be ”normal,” but veterans to all be crazy?
Maybe she’s confusing the two.
@Redteam: Where did she say “all combat vets should have to prove they do not have a mental problem before they can buy a weapon?”
Remember also, this was in a discussion of an assault weapons ban.
@Richard Wheeler:
in her statement. Did you read it?
Here is a quote:
After she has said that veterans of combat have PTSD, a ‘new phenomenon’ according to her, she’s saying that the seller has to verify that the buyer is a veteran and is not impaired. There’s more, but it is clear that she is targeting all combat vets (that’s you)
@Nanny G: I agree with you, but while she said all combat vets are impaired, she did not say all vets are insane. Some distinction. It does point out that she, herself, is batshit crazy.(but she’s from California, so that may be redundant)
RW, talking about quotes, here’s a recent one by Bill Ayers:
Read more at
Still in denial?
JUST by the sentence she came with tell of her own sanity, because of her fears,
she want everyone to let go their gun,
did she ever mention the criminals roaming around to intruse in the houses to steal their hard earned property, and if they encounter resistence they shoot to kill,
did FEINSTEIN count the criminal in prison, and count the illegals coming from the wide open borders,
NO but she target the most important reliable WARRIORS OF THIS AMERICA,
ONE HUNDRED TIME more WORTHY THAN HER AND ALL THOSE IN THE GOVERNMENT,
SHE LOST THE PEOPLE WHO BELIEVED IN HER, SHE CROSS THE LINE BY FAVORING THE ILLEGALS
who many are running away from being killed for their criminal actions IN THEIR COUNTRY, including the same TALIBANS LET OUT FROM PRISON BY KARZEI BY HUNREDS OF THEM, THEY COME AND ARE USE TO KNOW THE WAY TO INFILTRATE BY PAYING FOR IT, no she pass those illegals, THEY ARE OKAY WITH HER,
AND CRIMINALS, ALSO OKAY WITH HER,
and jump right in the THOUGHT OF accusing THE BRAVES AMERICANS, BEING SLAUGHTER IN THERE,
WHAT A SHAMELESS PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES, IMPLIMENTING THEIR PSYCHOTIC THOUGHTS ONTO THE TOLERANT AMERICANS,
@Redteam: Very humorous how Ayres is consistently called a liar and a lot worse—then you believe him. Seems he’s toying with you.Laughing at you.
BTW I got as much faith in wnd as you do in snopes.
@Richard Wheeler:
Who has ever called Ayers a liar, RW? Provide us some links to that claim.
While I do think Billy Ayers is a terrorist, in the same mold as Nidal Hassan, Timothy McVeigh and the Boston bombers, and should have died by firing squad, I have never doubted that he was always telling the truth about his motives and his actions. His arrogance, and knowing that daddy’s money (from ComEd) could hire him the finest lawyers in the nation, demanded that he tell the world, up front, what he was all about and that was instituting a Communist revolution in the United States.
Yes, I think he wrote most of Dreams. Even a biographer, who wrote a book Barack and Michelle, said that Obama was struggling to meet a deadline, that he had already missed previously, to finish his book and that Billy Ayers was more than happy to oblige.
What is sick is that in Liberal World, someone like Ayers could become a “respected” educator and have access to young minds, indoctrinating them in his radical, Communist views.
@Richard Wheeler:
What is it you admire about Ayers? is it because he supports your guy? He apparently is about as big a POS as it is possible to be in the USA.
A real traitor. Libs all admire him.
@Redteam: I don’t admire Ayers. What’s humorous is you believing his B.S.
O5 In RT’S #72 the lady interviewer in the WND link provided called Ayers a liar Good bet he’s been called a liar by many.
RW, how did we get to where we are today. A president that is not a natural born citizen. likely has a cultist for a father, does not have a birth certificate, has never had a drivers license, has never had his own SS number, Did not register for the draft, does not have a degree from any university, claims Columbia as an alma mater and never attended a class there, and no one questions that? Wow……
@Redteam: Funny stuff–thanks RT
@Richard Wheeler:
But it is of no concern to the lefties.
Funny? not to me.
“Obama I will not compromise” returns 30K hits on Google, Obama+I+will+not+compromise return 9.95M hits.
OK… here is a list by a neutral fact checker organization:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/rulings/compromise/
I know it’s tough to deal with facts rather than ideology but it can be refreshing, even humbling.
Try it!