Taking note of the 2008 candidate of Hope and Change recent comment* “you can’t change Washington from the inside” and “can only change it from the outside”, the American Thinker’s Clarice Feldman finds “plenty of evidence that his passive aggression is behind much of his failure in office“:

How else to explain things like turning over his signature legislation, Obamacare, to Reid and Pelosi, refusing to meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu in favor or a joke fest on Letterman where he claims not to even know the extent of the national debt? Going off to a fundraiser in Vegas as our embassies burn and a dead or dying Ambassador is being hauled through the streets of Benghazi?

It wasn’t just Obamacare.  Congressional Democrats wrote the other big bills that passed Congress in the first two years of Obama’s term, i.e., the “stimulus” and the Dodd-Frank banking regulation bill.  “He is”, she adds, “resisting our demands that he adequately perform the job of the Chief Executive, dodging all responsibility, blaming others for his failures. In short, he is intentionally refusing to perform his job.”

In a similar vein, Michael Barone find that the president’s “comfort zone is campaigning, not governing“.   [Read more…]