By ANDREW MALCOLM
A lot of people are looking at 2013 and feeling pessimistic.
That's silly, of course. Sure, The Incompetents got reelected. The economy still sucks. It's likely to get worse because Barack Hussein Obama doesn't have a clue about capitalism, doesn't want to and is focused on transforming the America he didn't grow up in. He'll be out campaigning and speechifying on something else divisive any day now.
True, there's a pervasive feeling that an inexorable moral decay is creeping across the country under this amoral Chicago crew. More nutjobs seem to turn deadly violent for inexplicable reasons, especially in Chicago.
Though the South Side president forgets to mention Chicago passing the 500-murder mark in 2012 during his painful paeans about the need for someone to do something about guns. Like many of his presidential responsibilities, Obama handed the violent gun issue over to Joe Biden to appear to do something about it.
Remember how Obama was going to erase the divisive partisanship of Washington? Well, the country reelected a divided federal government, which ensures divisive partisanship will continue. But voters can duck responsibility by pointing to D.C. and shaking their heads over elected members of Congress doing exactly what they were elected to do.
And American confidence in its institutions will wither more. Which is fine by Obama since he wants to change them anyway.
President Obama can call on all sides to please, pretty please, come together for the good of the country. Just before he ignites yet another self-serving, unnecessarily bitter crisis to keep opponents feuding. And then calls on all sides to reject their politics of division.
Which, by the way, is how the Democrat mayors of Chicago's machine have managed to rule the Windy City for eight decades, by keeping their party's feuding factions feuding and unable to coalesce behind an alternative to the Big Guy in City Hall. The Big Guy now is Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who's actually a tiny fellow who has what Chicago prizes, clout.
But the seeping Chicagoness of the nation's politics is probably coincidence.
The country has a new Presidential Inauguration to celebrate a day late in 2013. And we'll get to hear another major Obama speech about fixing the country that so many thought was doing pretty well as a nation until he came along. Yes, the enthusiasm and excitement of 2008 are gone now. People chuckle when Obama makes another high-faluting promise.
Americans know better this time. They expect maybe half the inaugural crowd from that year. And hotels there are already offering discounted rooms.
But not long after the inauguration we get Obama's next State of the Union Address. Another prime-time nationally-televised event for Joe Biden to snooze through. None of what Obama lists as his major priorities then will happen this time either. His last budget got 0 votes in the entire Congress.
Because he wants to spend, spend, spend a whole lot more of China's money. And the Republican-controlled House has this crazy notion that $16.3 trillion in Obama's national debt is already too high.
And we'll all hear more overwhelming sums about the national debt being left for each of today's children to pay if they manage to find jobs as adults.
But by the time those bills come due, Obama will be making millions from his next autobiography.
His pals will be hitting up libs for big-money checks for the Barack H. Obama Presidential Library, which will not likely be located in Streator, Illinois.
And No. 44 will be safely ensconced in his beachfront mansion playing golf with his old buds from the Choom Gang, while the rest of us enjoy the expensive fruits of his labors transforming America into something else.
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That's silly, of course. Sure, The Incompetents got reelected. The economy still sucks. It's likely to get worse because Barack Hussein Obama doesn't have a clue about capitalism, doesn't want to and is focused on transforming the America he didn't grow up in. He'll be out campaigning and speechifying on something else divisive any day now.
True, there's a pervasive feeling that an inexorable moral decay is creeping across the country under this amoral Chicago crew. More nutjobs seem to turn deadly violent for inexplicable reasons, especially in Chicago.
Though the South Side president forgets to mention Chicago passing the 500-murder mark in 2012 during his painful paeans about the need for someone to do something about guns. Like many of his presidential responsibilities, Obama handed the violent gun issue over to Joe Biden to appear to do something about it.
Remember how Obama was going to erase the divisive partisanship of Washington? Well, the country reelected a divided federal government, which ensures divisive partisanship will continue. But voters can duck responsibility by pointing to D.C. and shaking their heads over elected members of Congress doing exactly what they were elected to do.
And American confidence in its institutions will wither more. Which is fine by Obama since he wants to change them anyway.
President Obama can call on all sides to please, pretty please, come together for the good of the country. Just before he ignites yet another self-serving, unnecessarily bitter crisis to keep opponents feuding. And then calls on all sides to reject their politics of division.
Which, by the way, is how the Democrat mayors of Chicago's machine have managed to rule the Windy City for eight decades, by keeping their party's feuding factions feuding and unable to coalesce behind an alternative to the Big Guy in City Hall. The Big Guy now is Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who's actually a tiny fellow who has what Chicago prizes, clout.
But the seeping Chicagoness of the nation's politics is probably coincidence.
The country has a new Presidential Inauguration to celebrate a day late in 2013. And we'll get to hear another major Obama speech about fixing the country that so many thought was doing pretty well as a nation until he came along. Yes, the enthusiasm and excitement of 2008 are gone now. People chuckle when Obama makes another high-faluting promise.
Americans know better this time. They expect maybe half the inaugural crowd from that year. And hotels there are already offering discounted rooms.
But not long after the inauguration we get Obama's next State of the Union Address. Another prime-time nationally-televised event for Joe Biden to snooze through. None of what Obama lists as his major priorities then will happen this time either. His last budget got 0 votes in the entire Congress.
Because he wants to spend, spend, spend a whole lot more of China's money. And the Republican-controlled House has this crazy notion that $16.3 trillion in Obama's national debt is already too high.
And we'll all hear more overwhelming sums about the national debt being left for each of today's children to pay if they manage to find jobs as adults.
But by the time those bills come due, Obama will be making millions from his next autobiography.
His pals will be hitting up libs for big-money checks for the Barack H. Obama Presidential Library, which will not likely be located in Streator, Illinois.
And No. 44 will be safely ensconced in his beachfront mansion playing golf with his old buds from the Choom Gang, while the rest of us enjoy the expensive fruits of his labors transforming America into something else.
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/010113-638801-obama-spreads-chicago-style-divisions-through-american-politics.htm?p=full
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