In case you had any doubts about how President Obama will play out the remainder of his term, surrounded by a Republican Congress, I'll be happy to tell you.
Yesterday, Mr. Obama set aside all of his busy schedule worrying about ISIS, creating jobs, invading immigrants, Putin and all the other things he probably should be worrying about. Instead, he invited his Cabinet (with whom he apparently never meets together), a set of "civil rights leaders" (this most transparent Administration ever didn't explain what Al Sharpton was doing there or how the others were appointed to a position meriting meeting with the president), and "law enforcement" representatives to the White House to talk about -- you guessed it -- Ferguson.
Now, I'll happily admit that rioting in the streets of a St. Louis suburb and elsewhere probably ought to get the attention of the president of the USA, but this just seems so staged. And as you think about it, you probably won't be too surprised. Given that all the recommendations that came out were about "fixing" the police, we shouldn't be surprised either.
Barack Obama will achieve no more legislative victories as president. The voters have rejected his agenda by electing a Republican House and Senate, which makes Obama the very lamest of lame ducks. So how, then, can he try to achieve that good ol' historic legacy he so pines for?
If he does nothing much the next two years, with an anemic economy, horrendous employment figures and atrocious black unemployment, no jobs program, Putin, Syria, the IRS, Benghazi, Obamacare and its roll-out and a series of lies to the USA as his legacies, he risks going down as leading a bottom-three most execrable presidency ever.
So what does a surrounded radical leftie do? He does the one thing that at least will preserve the drone population of his remaining following -- he becomes the victim. Once we get past the first of the year and a new Congress, we can look forward to a blitz of legislation being passed and sent to the president's desk to sign, which he will generally veto.
"Waaah, they wouldn't pass a bill I could sign"
His appointments requiring Senate approval will be intentionally sufficiently far-left that they won't pass muster and will be voted down.
"Waaah, they wouldn't give me my appointments so I can run the government"
His Executive Orders may be taken to court and deemed unconstitutional abuses of power.
"Waaah, they wouldn't let me do what I wanted"
Just keep watching. He absolutely needs to be seen as the victim, else his "legacy" will be as a failure on his own actions. So he needs to establish that president-as-victim narrative now, and the best way to do it is to mobilize the drones and give the press the usual pap so they will take his narrative and run with it. Hence the big Ferguson show today -- "I'm one of them ... If I had a son he would look like Michael Brown ... There is legitimate unrest ... we need to fix the police ..."
The country sure won't see him as a victim, but the press will obediently try to make him one. The press "made him" in the first place (they could have done a little lifting of the veil in 2008 and chose not to); their journalistic integrity depends on their own not being embarrassed either. But you mark my words, by the end of this March, you will hear Obama speak and think "Oh, my God, he IS trying to be the victim-in-chief."
Of course, he will sink the 2016 Democratic candidate if he does that. But I don't think he cares. He's got a legacy to invent so he can try to protect it.
Copyright 2014 by Robert Sutton
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