Emperor Obama
The head asshole in Washing D.C. isn't even trying to hide his delusions of emperorship anymore. From a live blog I was able to pull out parts of Obama's speech he gave last night (because I certainly wasn't going to waste my time watching that dumb ass like on television) and the following statement from him almost floored me:
What kind of country would this be if this chamber had voted down Social Security or Medicare just because it violated some rigid idea about what government could or could not do?
We'd have a country of law, opportunity, and liberty. I honestly can't believe (OK I can believe it but I don't want to) that an elected official would be so brazen as to openly state on public television that he doesn't give two fucks what the laws say government can and can't do. He might as well have flat out said, "Fuck the Constitution, I'll do whatever the Hell I want and you stupid peasants are going to like it!"
What else did the chief asshole say? Well This quote was interesting:
Obama again stirs the pot with the GOP, noting that Abraham Lincoln - the first Republican president -- also "mobilized government to build the transcontinental railroad; launch the National Academy of Sciences; and set up the first land grant colleges."
He also mobilized a nation to invade another nation which killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens just so he could keep his petty little union in place. And the first person to say he did it to free the slaves can take a seat over in the corner because you get a timeout for not knowing your American history. If you actually read the Emancipation Proclamation you'll note that it would have only freed the slaves in seceded states (not the Northern slave states) if they didn't return to the Union by January 1863. It was a purely political move to coax the Confederate states into returning to the Union.
Our chief asshole also introduced his new legislation, the American Jobs Act, which he urged Congress to pass without reading just like he urged them to pass his Health Insurance Company Enrichment Act:
Some of you have sworn oaths to never raise any taxes on anyone for as long as you live. Now is not the time to carve out an exception and raise middle-class taxes, which is why you should pass this bill right away.
Emphasis mine. Personally I'd like our "representatives" to actually read the damned bill before taking any action. Likewise if that bill does anything besides getting the government out of the economy it will be pointless and shouldn't be passed.
Obama should write a book titled I'm Above the Law: Why the Rules Don't Apply to Me.