Biden Just Let All of Hunter's Friends Out of Jail UPDATED

PJ Media 

 Because the Biden administration doesn't operate with an America First mindset, there was no release secured for any of the hostages being held by Hamas in exchange for the commuted sentence of the terrorist.  

. . "People have spent a lot of time this last month wondering what Joe Biden was up to and whether he was attending to any of his presidential duties at all. Not that the old boy had been extraordinarily present in the months leading up to the election, mind you, but he seemed extra AWOL after it.

"Well, President LOLEightyonemillion got back to work this week, and we're all probably going to end up wishing he hadn't.

"The pardon of his son Hunter was only a soft opening act for Biden, who really got his pen busy in the last several days. This is from something that Rick wrote yesterday: 

The White House announced on Wednesday that Biden has pardoned 39 "non-violent" prisoners and commuted the sentences of 1,500 others. The White House says it's the largest grant of clemency in U.S. history.

"That's a whole lot of sudden extra chow in prison cafeterias all over the land. It's almost as if Democrats have an affinity for people who break the law. As Rick goes on to say, this is an "abuse" of the president's power to grant clemency. He seems to want to leave a lot of scorched earth and burned bridges behind him on his way out of the White House door.

"Somebody wants him to, anyway. Biden is cranky and vindictive, but the people who have been running his brain for the last four years have their downright evil moments. They're the ones who drew up the list for Biden's clemency frenzy. There were bound to be some unsavory characters on it." . . .

Joe Biden Considers A Scorched Earth Policy On His Way Out The Door ..."The man is an inveterate liar. He lies about important things and trivial. He lied about riding the train, the death of his grandfather, and being shot at in Iraq. He lied about the truck driver who killed his wife and daughter in 1972, claiming that the man had been drunk despite police records of the time showing no such thing. He cheated in college, lied about his standing at graduation in law school, and, fatally for his 1988 presidential run, plagiarized Neil Kinnock, a British politician.

"If there is a legacy to Joe Biden pre-Barack Obama, it is his destruction of the confirmation process for the Supreme Court. For most of our history up until that point in 1987, Supreme Court nominations were largely collegial processes that focused mainly on the candidate’s knowledge of the law and their qualifications for sitting on the bench. Joe Biden and fellow liberal urchin Teddy Kennedy savaged Bork for his conservative views and, as the New York Times suggested, the Bork nomination “in some ways, was the beginning of the end of civil discourse in politics.” 

 Biden Releases CCP Spies, Pedo as J6ers, Miles Guo, and Pro-Lifers Still in Jail  "While peaceful American citizens and a prominent anti-CCP Chinese dissident rot in American jails, Joe Biden is granting clemency to Chinese nationals jailed for espionage, spying, and child pornography, much to the glee of America’s number one enemy, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

"That laundered Chinese money to Joe Biden and his family is once again paying dividends, as the CCP celebrated a deal where the release of several U.S. citizens from China is being rewarded by the exchange of several dangerous criminals." . . .  Sadly, the bulk of this article is behind a pay wall. TD

Biden commutes sentence of man who watched infant rape videos because he is a CCP asset   "Just remember, in Joe Biden’s America, “no one is above the law” unless…you’re the president’s son, you participated in weaponized committees to target Trump supporters and destroyed the evidence of your actions, you committed treason or participated in crimes against humanity but vote Democrat, you burn down and vandalize pregnancy resource centers, or you’re an extensive viewer of child pornography (including infant rape) and important to the Chinese Communist Party." . . .

UPDATE:  Biden Commutes Sentence of Illinois Official Who Embezzled $53M from Small Town  . . ."Crundwell was the comptroller for the town of Dixon, Illinois, famed as the boyhood home of Ronald Reagan. But investigators eventually discovered that for more than 20 years she had been funneling millions of dollars a year of city funding into her personal accounts to fund her luxurious lifestyle and businesses.

"Li Arellano, a Republican who took the mayor’s office after the Crundwell conviction and who ran for office to clean up the mess she left, insisted that Biden just showed that “crime pays.' ” 

UPDATE: Biden commutes sentence of disgraced PA judge who sent kids to jail for $2.1 MILLION in kickbacks   . . ."In his statement released by the White House, Biden announced that the nearly 1,500 commutations he granted to Americans was the highest ever in one day. According to the statement, those on the list have been completing their sentences under the COVID-era CARES Act at home for a minimum of a year. He emphasized his belief that the US is "a nation of second chances" and stated that they have "shown their commitment to rehabilitation." A Chinese national convicted of possessing more than 47,000 files of child pornography also received a commutation."

Bruce Springsteen...Your Music Sucks, and So Do Your Political Opinions

Sadly I love so much of his music, except the songs that trash the United States of America, such as, to name just two, "Death To My Hometown", and "Mrs. McGrath":

 I'd rather have my son as he used to be/ [Than] the King of America and his whole Navy"

RedState

" In November 2020, Springsteen was arrested for drunk driving, but that didn’t stop “Jeep” from featuring Springsteen in a Super Bowl Ad that was a stick in the eye to everyone who didn’t vote for Biden. Biden would bring a divided America together...or something."  

. . ."Bruce Springsteen said he would move to Australia if Trump won in 2020. He didn’t move because Biden won. In November 2020, Springsteen was arrested for drunk driving, but that didn’t stop “Jeep” from featuring Springsteen in a Super Bowl Ad that was a stick in the eye to everyone who didn’t vote for Biden. Biden would bring a divided America together...or something.  

"Biden, of course, did not unite – he divided us. Even more than his boss, Obama, he was the vindictive old man screaming, “Get off my lawn!” When Biden wasn’t screaming, he was doing his creepy whisper, claiming that half of America was a danger to democracy. Celebrities came out to support a clearly addled old man claiming that Biden would save “democracy” — if Trump wins again, the nation is doomed. Then, the addled old man showed America that he was an addled old man. The Shady Hills Retirement resident loaned out to the DNC showed us that he was incapable of filling out his Bingo card, so the Democrats inserted Kamala Harris into the slot. Harris had so little support four years ago that she dropped out before the California primary. She got precisely zero votes in the Democrat primaries, yet she is the nominee that Springsteen is, again, telling us will save America from the threat of Trump."....  

Destroying the American system of justice

 Ed Brodow - American Thinker

"If the Democrats can get away with this partisan assault on someone like Donald Trump, imagine what they will do to you and me in pursuit of their leftist policies. The American public is no longer protected by due process and the rule of law. The rule has just changed to, “Whatever the Democrats want.' ” . . .

"Some days I think I must be dreaming. Two deranged “public servants” -- the vindictive New York State attorney general and a leftist judge with a bad haircut -- are being given free rein to subvert our justice system by placing titanic barriers against the Republican nominee’s ability to run for president. What is happening to our country and who will stop it?

"How is it possible that someone with Trump’s extraordinary accomplishments can be brought down by two vile and inconsequential persons such as Letitia James and Arthur Engoron? Their lawsuit has the support of, and is the consequence of, the Democratic Party’s efforts to interfere with the 2024 presidential election.

"To begin with, James’ fraud case against Trump is a farce. There is no crime and no victim. No one has been harmed. It is purely a weaponization of the legal system for political ends. As Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary has observed, what Trump is alleged to have done -- overvalue his real estate properties when applying for a bank loan -- is normal business practice all over the globe. The bank made money and is anxious to do business with him again.

"Thanks to a publicity-hungry, overtly anti-Trump judge, James’ phony indictment has been backed up with an unheard-of $460-million judgment. And they want it now. No one has that kind of cash floating around. Unless he comes up with an impossible-to-obtain bond, Trump is precluded from his right to appeal.

"Without waiting for the outcome of an appeal, James wants to seize Trump’s real estate holdings. Adding insult to injury, Judge Engoron has ordered a court to oversee the Trump organization for a minimum of three years. This is the Soviet-style textbook for “How to Take Down a Billionaire.” . . .

Attorney General Garland promises election lawfare - American Thinker

How is it possible the chief law enforcement officer in America doesn’t know drop boxes, refusing to enforce ID laws and mail-in ballots are among the best methods of cheating?  Or perhaps he does…

And this is the man Obama selected for the Supreme Court! TD 

Joe Biden's Stupid Plan to Avenge Fallen US Troops: Tell Iran We're Coming, Then Provide the Target List

"Biden was also the only member of Barack Obama’s inner circle to vote against going after Osama bin Laden when the CIA finally found him because he didn’t trust the SEALs."

Andrew Malcolm – RedState "This president of the United States has done so many stupid things in his endless presidency, often intentionally. The incidents glide by day after day like flotsam on a swollen river, and no one does anything but shake their head.

"Joe Biden has done it again. But this time, he’s put even more of our valiant military volunteers' lives at risk.

"Over the weekend, Iran-backed militants managed to slip an armed drone past the alert system at a U.S. Army base in Jordan. The explosion killed three members of the military and wounded more than three dozen others.

" 'I don’t know precisely how you measure pressure in the D.C. Swamp, likely by the decibel level of publicly squawking to media. This time, it was mostly Republicans calling on Biden to take some form of retaliation other than his standard silence. Biden's weakness in foreign affairs is a major theme of the campaign.

"Biden, you may recall, was not forced to seek the presidency. He volunteered to become commander-in-chief, though he had no military experience, like his two immediate predecessors.

"Biden is well-known among Washington-types for his oft-stated disdain for and distrust of the military. He's also well-known for being 81 and acting even older.

"You might remember how moved he was at the solemn return of the military bodies from the homicide bombing at the Kabul airport during the botched Afghan troop exit, checking his watch at least three times as the bodies were unloaded.

"That whole exit chaos was caused by Biden ignoring military advice to leave some troops there to oversee an orderly evacuation. Biden didn’t. The evacuation turned into days of deadly panic and chaos, which Biden continues to call “an extraordinary success.” . . .

Obama, on the other hand, was not stupid like Biden; he was sinister and vindictive. We all assume Joe has handlers; is this how they handle him? TD

Who is Trump’s real opponent? Not Biden.

 Who can oppose this lady without being called a "racist"? It has to be time to fight back against that accusation. TD

Joe Herring - American Thinker

Remember, the Democrat party isn’t trying to run from its dismal track record as much as it’s trying to conceal the fact that it’s all intentional.  This is our task: to show the American public that the struggles and travails they have experienced for the last three years were not an accident.  They were the point. 

"The post-Iowa consensus appears to be coalescing around the idea that Trump ought to ignore his GOP challengers and turn his focus entirely on Joe Biden.  Clay Travis and Buck Sexton, of the Clay and Buck Show, suggested this would result in the “longest general election campaign in modern history.”

"While I accept the premise, I wholeheartedly disagree with the target.  Yes, Trump’s energies ought no longer be directed toward swatting flies on his rear, but pivoting toward Biden entirely is a strategic error.

"Biden is a symptom, not a cause of America’s illness.  The cause lies in the embrace by the Democrat party of a Marxist/fascist hybrid collectivism, to be elevated by any means necessary.

"Biden will almost certainly be replaced before the general election, and not with Kamala Harris.  This will likely be timed to happen very deep into the election cycle to ensure that Republicans have as little time as possible to expose the new nominee as the Marxist puppet he surely will be.

"Given the puppeteer role Barack Obama has played in the present administration, the theory that Biden will be supplanted by Michelle Obama at the eleventh hour is emerging as the most credible.

"The Democrat party will forcefully focus voters on the celebrity of their nominee to forestall meaningful scrutiny of her lackluster qualifications and the disturbing anti-white American animus evidenced throughout her life.

"Of course, the left will have no shortage of media figures from Hollywood and entertainment television to spend dramatic amounts of time and treasure casting Trump as a vindictive, dangerous despot determined to drag any American politically left of center into gulags." . . .

. . ."This is common knowledge among engaged conservatives, who need only the occasional reminder, but it is an essential lesson for those who are contemplating or intend to vote for a Democrat, forever stamping their souls with the stain of complicity. Teach them, and in doing so, save ourselves." . . .

Barack Obama the Vindictive Enforcer

 Jeannie DeAngelis - American Thinker   "The definition of "vindictive" is to have or show a "strong or unreasoning desire for revenge."  As an observer of the ongoing humiliation and persecution currently directed toward Donald J. Trump and anyone who supports him, what America may now be witnessing is an unparalleled display of malicious revenge.

"One might ask, "Who is driving this retribution?"  The most obvious answer to that question is that it must be a self-absorbed force with a notorious reputation for spiteful exoneration.  Judging from past conduct, that force would be none other than former president Barack Obama.

"This man thrives on adulation.  Even the casual observer is aware of Obama's inability to accept criticism.  Refuse to genuflect, and Mr. Obama's ire is immediately directed like a laser toward the defiant.  Just ask "tea baggers" or victims of a weaponized IRS.  Judging from Obama's self-identification with his ideology, retribution isn't just politics; it's personal.  Defy him, and the former president looks for any forum, weapon, policy implementation, or cruel injustice to vindicate his vendetta and somehow manages to accomplish this either publicly or privately.  The man's skin is so thin that, if not for his godlike status among his minions, his juvenile reactions would be considered embarrassing.  

"Obama's list of vendettas is long and ugly — just ask the SCOTUS, Dinesh D'Souza, honest journalists, conservative groups, the nation of Israel, Vladimir Putin, suburban property owners, individuals with private health insurance, WWII veterans, prolifers, ex-military, Second Amendment advocates...and the list goes on and on.

"Think back.  From the start, "I won" Obama planned to "fundamentally transform" the United States from "the world as it is" into the "world as it should be," which, judging from its present condition, is beginning to resemble the Marxist hell-hole of his dreams. " . . .

Barack Obama the Vindictive Enforcer -

Every policy decision, from the diminishing supply chain to destroying energy independence to the economic crippling of the middle class to the devastating invasion at the border to the vaccine mandates, hints at the forced exoneration of Obama's hurt feelings  — on steroids. J.D.

Jeannie DeAngelis; American Thinker    "The definition of "vindictive" is to have or show a "strong or unreasoning desire for revenge."  As an observer of the ongoing humiliation and persecution currently directed toward Donald J. Trump and anyone who supports him, what America may now be witnessing is an unparalleled display of malicious revenge.

"One might ask, "Who is driving this retribution?"  The most obvious answer to that question is that it must be a self-absorbed force with a notorious reputation for spiteful exoneration.  Judging from past conduct, that force would be none other than former president Barack Obama.

"This man thrives on adulation.  Even the casual observer is aware of Obama's inability to accept criticism.  Refuse to genuflect, and Mr. Obama's ire is immediately directed like a laser toward the defiant.  Just ask "tea baggers" or victims of a weaponized IRS.  Judging from Obama's self-identification with his ideology, retribution isn't just politics; it's personal.  Defy him, and the former president looks for any forum, weapon, policy implementation, or cruel injustice to vindicate his vendetta and somehow manages to accomplish this either publicly or privately.  The man's skin is so thin that, if not for his godlike status among his minions, his juvenile reactions would be considered embarrassing.  

"Obama's list of vendettas is long and ugly — just ask the SCOTUS, Dinesh D'Souza, honest journalists, conservative groups, the nation of Israel, Vladimir Putin, suburban property owners, individuals with private health insurance, WWII veterans, prolifers, ex-military, Second Amendment advocates...and the list goes on and on.

"Think back.  From the start, "I won" Obama planned to "fundamentally transform" the United States from "the world as it is" into the "world as it should be," which, judging from its present condition, is beginning to resemble the Marxist hell-hole of his dreams." . . . 

. . ."On a much grander scale, the Trump indictments evoke memories of the type of maliciousness Obama displayed when Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu was left sitting alone in a White House meeting room for more than an hour while a rude former president disappeared upstairs for meatloaf with the wife and kids.  On that occasion, Netanyahu was chastised for the sin of daring to differ with punk Obama's "13 demands" concerning settlements in East Palestine. 

"In the end, this man-child will not rest until his egotistical reprisals are satisfied, and America still has a long way to go.  Barack Obama has already proven that if you deviate from his way of thinking, there's hell to pay.  Obama has also proven that he hates America, detests patriotic Americans, loathes the U.S. Constitution, and will set the world on fire to exact psychopathic revenge on his detractors.  Therefore, on behalf of the global elite, who better than a vindictive Barack Obama to do the dirty work necessary to bring the last vestige of freedom to its knees?"

From back in 2020: Obama’s Assessment of Trump Ignores HIs Own Administration’s Lawlessness | National Review    

Comparisons of Trump’s rhetoric and actions to an authoritarian’s have ranged from the hysterical to the nuanced. But Obama’s assessment of Trump is not only dramatic and overtly partisan. It is a whitewashing of his own administration’s lawlessness and overreach. It is sheer projection.

POLL: Voters Want Republicans To Release Tax Returns Of Democrats Who Voted To Release Trump’s

Love it, but it ain't gonna happen. The media won't let it for starters. TD

 The Gateway Pundit

"Now that Democrats have released Trump’s tax returns, an unprecedented and vindictive move, they may regret it.

"A majority of voters want the tax returns of these Democrats to be released, according to a new poll.

"You know what they say about payback.". . .

While the survey found that most, 63 percent, approve of Democrat members of the House Ways and Means Committee releasing six years of Trump’s tax returns, most want the same to happen to the Democrats who made that happen.

. . . Derek Hunter @derekahunter ·Follow Yet another Democrat scam backfires. Releasing Trump's tax returns shows his net worth declined while in office. Is there a single Democrat who could say the same? Clinton? Obama? Biden? Pelosi doubled her net worth.

The Obamas Despise Free Speech, and Show It

Jeannie DeAngelis   "When warning Americans that freedom is in danger if political views that do not agree with theirs are not silenced, both Barack and Michelle Obama love to throw around the term "democracy."  The Obama belief that opposing free speech somehow protects "democracy" proves that neither one understands the basic tenet of what they profess needs protecting.

"In Obama circles, rebuke, rejection, or refutation does not sit well.  These two hypersensitive narcissists thrive on things like public adoration and unswerving agreement.  The Obama brand of egotistical self-importance is so great that deviation from the Obama gospel is oftentimes met with vindictive attempts at public humiliation.

"During his eight years in office, Obama overtly scolded detractors.  The former president fought his battles with a teleprompter and a weaponized federal government at his side.  A short list of some of the opponents Obama publicly targeted included the American 

Constitution — i.e., the Second Amendment — the U.S. military, pro-lifers, Christians, and right-leaning Supreme Court judges.  Obama made a sport of reprimanding Tea Party activists as well as conservative news stations and anchors.  Take, for example, his administration's April 2009 opening salvo issued by the DHS, entitled, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," or his malicious act of siccing IRS agents on those he deemed political adversaries.

Then, in 2016, the worst happened: voters overwhelmingly chose a different kind of president. . . ."

Biden: Exit Stage Lost

Obama couldn't speak coherently without a teleprompter, and Biden can't speak coherently even with a teleprompter.  . . . 

 Biden: Exit Stage Lost  The article is quite lengthy; this is just the conclusive thought:

. . ."A politically compromised and corrupt DOJ and FBI continue to target and harass any pro-Constitution Americans not down with American communism, and when they're not covering up their culpability for using the Hillary-Obama Russia collusion scam as part of a running coup d'état against President Trump, they're actively conspiring to foist further spurious charges against him in order to keep him off the '24 ballot.  Insidious censorship has gone so vogue under the malignant socialist State that American corporations, newspapers, "thought leaders," and social media platforms deceptively posing as defenders of free speech all justify viewpoint discrimination, language bans, and punishment for unapproved thoughts.  Members of the military, as well as huge majorities of the private workforce, are still being coerced against their will to accept experimental medical treatments and endure COVID-related crimes against humanity.  

"Biden, picking right up where Obama left off, insists on aiding our enemies in China, Iran,
Venezuela, Cuba, and elsewhere, while browbeating Americans at home for unconsciously engaging in "systemic racism" and other meaningless Marxist claptrap meant to strangle Americans' freedom, self-worth, and initiative with vindictive and morally deficient "collective guilt."  And while ordinary Americans deal with these plentiful — nay, nearly overwhelming — government-created problems, they watch as the useful dotard and aspiring dictator putatively serving as president of the United States continues to use Ukraine as a vehicle for laundering money for friendly cronies and as a playing field for tit-for-tat geopolitical warfare against Russia's Putin while nonchalantly terrorizing the globe with dangerous murmurings of nuclear Armageddon.  

"With the business of the day as serious as it has ever been, why not have a bumbling fool at the helm steering the ship of state — especially when it seems that this time around, the State is intent on driving us directly into the nearest iceberg!  It is as if we were playing Russian roulette with a hundred different life-threatening issues each day — including nuclear gamesmanship with Russia itself — and a corrupt, craven, lobotomized cretin were waving the gun at us all and repeatedly pulling the trigger.  But why should Braindead Biden care?  He gets to fly around on Air Force One, collect undeserved salutes, and prance around on the world stage as mad kings do.  He can escape from the burdens of leadership to his Delaware vacation home and lick pudding pops 'till he gives his Jell-O brain brain freeze.  For those with nowhere else to go, though, the Deep State's lost puppet sure has made a nightmare of the American dream."

What sort of people watch MSNBC's Joy Reid and would appear on her show?

*Racist Propagandist Joy Reid’s MSNBC Ratings Collapsing | Discover The Networks

Breitbart’s John Nolte notes correctly that a significant problem for The ReidOut is that “joyless Joy Reid has no charisma, isn’t terribly bright, is a painfully predictable ideologue, vindictive, and an intolerant bigot.”

 Joy Reid Racist Remarks Led To Low MSNBC Ratings - Was She Fired Or Cancelled? (theancestory.com) 

In 2003, she left journalism to work for the anti-war group America Coming Together, which was formed to oppose President George W. Bush and the Iraq War. She subsequently worked for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008 before returning to radio as a talk show host.

 MSNBC Slammed Over ‘Disgusting Racist Rant’ Attacking Black Republican: ‘Unbelievably Insidious’ | The Daily Wire

FBT is non-partisan, but we respect @WinsomeSears' win—the 1st black person & 1st woman elected to statewide office in VA.@MichaelEDyson's take:

“a black mouth moving"

"a white idea"

"a figure who justifies and legitimates white supremacist practices”

*Not* healthy, folks! pic.twitter.com/lQRxAh0Z7g

— Free Black Thought (@FreeBlckThought) November 5, 2021

Jack Brewer threatens to sue Joy Reid over 'child abuse' tweet (nypost.com)  "Former NFL player Jack Brewer has threatened to sue MSNBC host Joy Reid for defamation after she compared children involved in his charity program attending Gov. Ron DeSantis’ signing of an anti-critical race theory bill to “child abuse.”

“ 'Joy Reid messed with the wrong boys,” Brewer told Fox News Digital Monday.". . .

Gutfeld Says MSNBC Is ‘So Terrified’ to Fire Joy Reid ‘Because She’s Just Gonna Call Them Racist,’ Calls It ‘Her Scam’

Ron Desantis' Team Hits Back at Joy Reid's 'Child Abuse' Claim (newsweek.com)

" 'We are not going to categorize you based on your race. We are not gonna tell some kindergartener that they're an oppressor based on their race and what may have happened 100 or 200 years ago. And we're not gonna tell other kids that they're oppressed based on their race," DeSantis said."

Satire: Dems Announce Plan To Call People Racist Even Harder | The Babylon Bee

. . ." 'The real reason we didn't win these elections is because we weren't calling people racist hard enough," said Joy Ann Reid, Democrat activist/journalist. "We called voters racist on the hour, when we really should have been doing it every minute. And we should have been doing it with more anger and passion.' ". . .

 MSNBC anchor Joy Reid's crying shame: Devine (nypost.com)  "Joy Reid is a racist sociopath. How else to explain her reaction to Kyle Rittenhouse breaking down in the witness box during his murder trial last week? 

 "White crocodile tears", said the hate-mongering MSNBC prime-time anchor. 

"This is a woman on a seven-figure salary who went to Harvard and has more elite privilege in her little finger than the 17-year-old son of a single mother who was in Kenosha working as a lifeguard when all hell broke loose in the form of BLM-Antifa riots in August 2020. 

"Yet Reid continually plays the victim and makes her living punching down at white people less fortunate than she is. ". . .

Give Obama his proper worship or regret it

 

Even Liberals Are Calling Out Obama's 'Selfish' and 'Reckless' Behavior Amid Delta Variant Surge (townhall.com)

“Imagine for a moment that Donald Trump was throwing a massive birthday party for himself and 475 conservative friends in Martha’s Vineyard next weekend?” Morgan said. “What do you think the reaction would be from liberals, given that America is currently in the grip of a very dangerous new phase of the coronavirus pandemic with the Delta variant of COVID that has seen infections rise 148% in the past two weeks and hospitalizations by 73%?”

From 2013, when Obama was President:  Jonah Goldberg: Obama Showing His Vindictive Streak

"Shutting down the government in an effort to use a budget fight to get rid of Obamacare is not the strategy I would have recommended for the GOP. And while Republicans can be blamed for starting the shutdown, it’s increasingly apparent that President Obama and the Democrats deserve the lion’s share of blame for not only prolonging it, but for making it as painful as possible.

"Obama has always had a bit of a vindictive streak when it comes to politics. I think it stems from his Manichaean view of America. There are the reasonable people – who agree with him. And there are the bitter clingers who disagree for irrational or extremist ideological reasons.

"In his various statements over the last week, he’s insisted that opponents of Obamacare are “ideologues” on an “ideological crusade.” Meanwhile, he cast himself as just a reasonable guy interested in solving America’s problems. I have no issue with him calling Republican opponents “ideologues” – they are – but since when is Obama not an ideologue?

"The argument about Obamacare is objectively and irrefutably ideological on both sides – state-provided health care has been an ideological brass ring for the left for well over a century. But much of the press takes its cues from Democrats and sees this fight – and most other political fights – as a contest pitting the forces of moderation, decency and rationality against the ranks of the ideologically brainwashed.

"What’s unusual is the way Obama sees the government as a tool for his ideological agenda. During the fight over the sequester, Obama ordered the government to make the 2 percent budget cut as painful and scary as possible.". . .

Obama: The most beloved Democrat of all

 Stephen Colbert gushes during Obama interview: 'I just want to take a moment to drink you in' - Washington Times   

“Can we just take a moment,” the host said. “I want to talk. I just want to take a moment to drink you in for just a moment because I’m having to get used to looking at a president again. You know, I’ve gotten out of — I’ve gotten out of the habit. I have to warm up for Joe Biden. I don’t want to pull anything when I see him take the oath of office.”

 Reminder: Barack Obama Is Un-American and Awful – PJ Media   . . ."Just a couple of days ago, we were going over the fact that he’s such a narcissistic tool that he couldn’t back off the ego and help his buddy Amtrak Joe with a photo opp boost. All he had to do was show up, smile, and let Biden be bathed in nostalgia and hope for the future. But, President Mom Jeans being President Mom Jeans, he had to remind everyone that he was the alpha male and his old pal Joe was the runt of the litter.". . .  Obama Backs 'Regulatory Measures' to Combat 'Disinformation' – PJ Media

Obama Brags About Obama, Claims He Forced Europe to Stand up to Russian Invasion of Crimea – RedState     . . .Same guy, by the way, who in 2012 ridiculously drew a “red line” in the Middle East, vowing that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would be a “game-changer.” Sure it was. Bottom line: Al-Assad proceeded to use chemical weapons against his own people, killing an estimated 1,500 men, women, and children. And Barack “Red Line” Obama? He folded up like a cheap suit.

"Even worse, as noted by Fox, Obama also in 2012 infamously ridiculed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (oh, hell — here come the random Romney blasts) for identifying Russia as America’s “number one geopolitical foe” — a valid claim in 2012.  During a presidential debate, Chicago Jesus Obama smirked:". . .

Obama: Same Old Narcissist as Always – PJ Media   "There is no one in this world that Barack Obama loves more than himself. The moment he walks into a room, everything is about him. He loves attention—he craves it.

"And when he returned to the White House on Tuesday, it’s no surprise that he couldn’t stop talking about himself in his speech.". . .

UPDATE: Ouch: Obama Snubbed Biden at the White House, and It’s the Saddest Thing You’ve Ever Seen – PJ Media  . . ."Seriously, have you ever seen anything sadder? Joe Biden thinks that because he’s the president (or at least pretending to be), he’s the coolest guy in the room, but no one cared about him. Instead, they were all basking in the glow of Obama, who so clearly was in love with himself and all the attention he was getting."

To Obama, Biden is nothing more than a useful idiot. Biden likes to make it out like they’re best friends, but Obama was clearly snubbing Biden like he was crop-dusting the room and trying to make an escape.

Goldberg: Barack Obama shows his vindictive side in shutdown fight - Newsday  . . ."What's unusual is the way Obama sees the government as a tool for his ideological agenda. During the fight over the sequester, Obama ordered the government to make the 2 percent budget cut as painful and scary as possible.

""It's going to be very painful for the flying public," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned Americans.

"" 'The FAA's all-hands furloughs managed to convert a less than 4 percent FAA budget cut into a 10 percent air-traffic control cut that would delay 40 percent of flights," The Wall Street Journal noted at the time.

"The Department of Homeland Security announced it might not be able to protect the nation's borders, and in an effort to prove the point summarily released a couple thousand immigrant detainees, many of them with criminal records.

"Obama, the avowed problem solver, set out to create problems for the American people, just to prove how great government is and how crazy Republicans were for wanting to cut spending -- much of the money borrowed from China -- a little. But don't you dare call him an ideologue!

"Now, with the government shutdown and the looming fight over the debt ceiling, Obama's doubling down this ideologically perverse strategy.". . .