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On July 7th, Senior Advisor to the President, Valerie Jarrett remarking about the incumbent in a Commentary Magazine article said that, “He's just so much smarter, and so much better, than the rest of us.” Yet facts show that less than half (47%) of likely U.S. would actually agree with her.

 

According to The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll yesterday, while 47% of likely U.S. voters approve of President Obama's job performance, fifty-two percent (52%) disapprove.

 

Therefore, it seems that Ms. Jarrett suffers from a problem that many intellectually limited individuals have. Because she’s venturing her opinion from a personal perspective. And while she herself is evidently below average intellectually, she assumes most others are at her level or lower. However, what the Rasmussen poll indicates is that they are not.

 

And most importantly, if her assumption about the incumbent’s intellectual acumen being a standard of measurement of being “better” than others is correct, fifty-two percent of likely voters are therefore smarter than he is because they don’t agree with him or approve of the job he’s doing.

 

Thus, when it comes to using intellect as an indicator for measuring the capabilities, intentions, motives or rationales for the actions or beliefs of others, what political hacks like Ms. Jarrett need to consider is that in order to know what truly intelligent individuals believe and perceive, one has to be on that level themselves. Which she clearly is not.

 

On another issue, it appears that Darryl Issa’s continual pursuit of the IRS and Lois Lerner, may yet prove to be correct. Because, according to the Washington Examiner: “New testimony from a key Internal Revenue Service official indicates the IRS may not have lost two years of emails sent by former top IRS official Lois Lerner after all.”

 

A newly released transcript of a recent closed-door interview with IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane, who’s responsible for producing documents requested by Congress related to a probe into the IRS past practice of targeting conservative groups, told Oversight staffers last week that the backup tapes that held two years of lost Lerner emails may actually still exist.

 

If that’s true, the truth of the targeting might very well still come out.

 

And finally, Barnini Chakraborty of Fox News.com reports that “A powerful federal appeals court dealt a major blow to ObamaCare on Tuesday, ruling against the legality of some subsidies issued to people through the Affordable Care Act exchanges.”

 

The ruling is likely to be appealed, but the the “decision threatens to gut the foundation of the law by potentially nixing subsidies that millions of people obtained through the federally run exchange known as HealthCare.gov.”

 

The decision is critical to the program because, “Nearly 90 percent of the federal exchange’s insurance enrollees were eligible for subsidies because of low or moderate incomes, and the outcome of the case could potentially leave millions without affordable health insurance.”

 

So, all the way around, today’s been another bad one for the administration. And that’s why people like Valerie Jarrett should stop and think before venturing statements that are absolutely ridiculous. Because, not only isn’t her boss more intellectually gifted than most, if his programs and management approach are offered as proof, one might assume he’s actually pretty stupid.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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