The Charlie Brown Syndrome
“Why’s everybody always pickin’ on me?” – Charlie Brown – 1959
With deference to the separation of BigFrick.Com and The Coasters, it certainly seems as though Barack Hussein Obama is channeling the poor, misunderstood Charlie Brown made famous in the 1959 hit song by blaming everybody but himself for his failures. But much the same as the lyrics explain in this rock and roll classic, Charlie Brown was not an innocent victim of undue negative attention and neither is Barack Obama.
In Baltimore, Maryland the president stood before US House Republicans and scolded them for “voting along party lines” and not supporting his misguided attempts to pass the ObamaCare version of nationalized healthcare as well as other parts of his agenda. Addressing the House Republicans at their annual policy retreat Obama said “What happens is that you guys don’t have a lot of room to negotiate with me,” he then went on to say "The fact of the matter is, many of you, if you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable with your own base, with your own party because what you’ve been telling your constituents is, ‘This guy’s doing all kinds of crazy stuff that’s going to destroy America.’ ”
House Republicans had invited the president to address them at this conference. Obama agreed to attend but only if he could bring the bright lights, cameras and reporters of the national press corps. Just take a moment to let that sink in. The President of the United States would only address the policy conference of the Republican House members if he could be televised. Where was this willingness for openness and television cameras when he was negotiating the details of ObamaCare with House Democrats behind locked doors? Where was the televised C-Span coverage he promised of the floor debates on Capitol Hill? Where was the live coverage when the Democrats were giving a $300 million bribe to Louisiana Representative Mary Landrieu for her vote or deciding to exempt the entire state of Nebraska from Medicare increases for the vote of Representative Ben Nelson?
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barack Obama spent months behind closed doors, locking out both the promised television coverage and the Republicans while they strong-armed each of their minions into submission either through intimidation or out and out bribery. And still after it was all said and done Barack Obama couldn’t get his pet project passed before the senatorial tide turned with the special election in Massachusetts. But now, with the camera’s once again rolling, Barack Obama stands before House Republicans and blames them for his failure.
The president then went on to admit that there were some “stray dogs and cats” that had been implanted into the ObamaCare legislation. He mentioned the same thing in his State of the Union address when he talked about some of the “horse trading” that went on. While the analogies of stray dogs and cats and horse trading sound fairly innocuous the reality is that ObamaCare is rife with sweetheart deals for unions, government intrusion into personal freedom and flat out bribery for those Democrats savvy enough to sell their vote.
He stood in the national spotlight and staring right into the eyes of the Supreme Court Justices blatantly and deliberately lied to the American public by intentionally misrepresenting the court’s recent ruling on corporate campaign contributions. And now he stands again before his once adoring media and, in an effort to regain some of that old magic, blames Republicans, from whom he needed no votes in the first place, for his dismal job performance.
Standing behind the podium, staring at the cameras and just flat out lying. It’s like “I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky” all over again. But this time instead of a stained blue dress the proof will come in the form of a continuing unemployment numbers and oppressive increasing national debt. Keep an eye out for the next phase.
The economy “is” getting better will all depend on what the definition of “is” is.
Barack Obama, congress, democrats, failure, jobs
