According to Fred Barnes, instead of using his meetings with congressional leaders to craft a plan to solve the national debt crisis, the president has been lecturing Republicans:
In the private talks, he’s dominated the discussion with the eight most senior members of Congress in an overbearing way not likely to lead to compromise. He’s been argumentative. He’s come across as President Blowhard.
After [Gene B.] Sperling [Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President] briefed the group on the deficit cap proposal, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi addressed another subject. When a Republican participant criticized the deficit cap, Obama interrupted with a monologue. When the Republican tried to speak a second time, the president quickly cut him off and delivered another sermon on why the criticism was wrong.
Obama has taken the tack that he must respond to everything that’s said, whether by a Republican, a Democrat, or even Biden. And his responses, like those in his press conferences, are never brief. But who’s going to complain about Obama’s verbosity, at least in his presence? He’s the president.
As if the issue were Obama’s “honor” not what he once called “our Government’s reckless fiscal policies“.
Oh, PLEASE pick me! I would LOVE to tell that man to shut up, and yes, if we are afraid to tell our president to shut-up after 3 years of lecturing, monologing and filibustering, we have elevated the office too high.
Impeach the bastard already. His abuse of power becomes more blatant every day. He has no regard for the Constitution the he swore to uphold.
Why, yes.
Let’s see some TOUGH questions!
Apologies to Teresa Brewer:
Put another pickle in
In the old phony him
All we want is havin’ you
Use some wisdom, wisdom, wisdom
We’d co-operate with you
If you would co-operate too
All we want is a President who
Hears the music, music, music
Closer, The Won, come closer
The nicest part of any compromise
Is when you’re listening to sanity
So, put another pickle in
In the old phony him
All we want is havin’ you
Face the music, music, music
All Obama does is lecture; the man is too full of himself to actually debate the issues. He always right no matter what because Obama says so. His arrogance & narcissism just covers his own inability to lead.
All you need to know to understand the behavior of the current US president is this: He considers himself to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Once you realize this, his behavior becomes not only understandable, but perfectly predictable.
The title question in your post was meant to be rhetorical, eh Dan? If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Obama over the past 3 years is that YES it’s all about him and him alone, damn the consequences.