BloggeRhythms

The old proverb “what goes around, comes around,” has proven true again for the POTUS. After avoiding congress as often as possible during his tenure to date, when he urgently needed votes for his trade bill Friday, Democrat members in his own party adamantly refused to comply. 

 

Yesterday, on FoxNews.com’s “Special Report with Bret Baier,”' Wall Street Journal and Fox News contributor, Jason Riley, said the “stinging blow to President Obama's trade agenda, is the president's own fault.” 

 

Mr. Riley opined, "This is a failure of presidential leadership. This is a president who rules by executive authority, executive action. He has spent six years putting Congress at arm's length...and it came back to bite him on this trade issue."

 

Summing up the politics, Mr. Riley explained that, "The politics of trade require a president to build a coalition, build a consensus from the center out. You're going to lose progressives on the left. You're going to lost protectionists on the right. But you have to use persuasion, argument."

 

However, considering this particular president’s actions since taking office, although he’s a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, he doesn’t seem to know what a “coalition” actually is.

 

Reader davidbt added, “If Reid was still leading the Senate, and Pelosi was still leading the House, this bill would've never been voted on, and the American People would've been denied an up or down vote.  Maybe Congress is beginning to work again.” 

 

On another issue, Bloomberg reports on Republican candidates Scott Walker and Marco Rubio regarding an idea often proposed here by myself in the past.

 

According to the text: “Walker said both he and Rubio often hear the suggestion that they should combine forces, potentially even before the first nomination voting in Iowa in February 2016, as a way to stand out amid a crowded field…Some who have talked privately to Walker about a possible pairing with Rubio say they have been surprised by how seriously the Wisconsin governor seems to be taking the prospect.”

 

As far as the rationale is concerned, Governor Walker is precisely correct when he also said, “he likes governors and their executive experience better than senators as potential presidents and vice presidents, but that Rubio stands out…‘I do like Marco Rubio,’ he said. ‘I think he and I have similar thoughts on national defense and foreign policy.’”

 

Putting it more succinctly, especially in view of the present POUTS’s performance in office, the presidency isn’t an occupation that can be learned on the job. And, much more importantly, as often stated here, doesn't come with training wheels. 

 

This morning, Drudge posted an article from 2008 by Scott Whitlock @mrcnewsbusters.org, titled, “FLASHBACK: ABC's ’08 Prediction: NYC Under Water from Climate Change By June 2015,” exactly seven years ago.

 

At that time, Bob Woodruff appearing on ABC,s “Good Morning America in 2008”,  “hyped Earth 2100, a special that pushed apocalyptic predictions of the then-futuristic 2015.

 

“The segment included supposedly prophetic videos, such as a teenager declaring, "It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99." (On the actual June 8, 2015, a gallon of milk cost, on average, $3.39.) Another clip featured this prediction for the current year: "Gas reached over $9 a gallon." (In reality, gas costs an average of $2.75.)

 

“As one expert warns that in 2015 the sea level will rise quickly, a visual shows New York City being engulfed by water. The video montage includes another unidentified person predicting that "flames cover hundreds of miles." 

 

As far as the proven truth is concerned, “Seven years later, the network has quietly ignored its horribly inaccurate predictions about 2015. When it comes to global warming claims, apparently results don't matter for ABC.” 

 

Which is precisely the way all fanatical global-warming alarmists act when facing the actual facts disproving their arguments, up to and including the POTUS.  

 

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife, which also includes a referral back to things said and done in the past.

 

An article, from Sunday, June 3, 2007, by Washington Post Staff Writers Anne E. Kornblut and Perry Bacon Jr. via Drudge, regarded the campaign status of Bill’s wife at that time, as follows:

 

“The challenge is more than just getting voters to connect to Clinton: She has extremely high negative ratings to try to counteract.

 

“Introducing biographical information about her childhood and early adulthood, her advisers hope, will flesh out the familiar caricature of Clinton as an overly ambitious careerist who leaves scandal in her wake. After 15 years in Washington, she is also seen as an inside-the-Beltway figure; underscoring her Midwestern upbringing is, they believe, one way to shift that view (while also, not coincidentally, appealing to voters in Midwestern swing states such as Ohio).”

 

And now, eight years later, Annie Karni writes @politico.com: “After nearly two and a half decades in the glare of the public spotlight, Hillary Clinton will reintroduce herself on Saturday by highlighting her personal journey marked heavily by the deprivations faced by her own mother.”

 

Which means that, Bill’s wife must live in some kind of time warp, Twilight Zone episode or Groundhog Day distortion. Because, after twenty-five years in the public eye, she has to reintroduce herself to the public, and start all over again. 

 

Yet, what’s even worse for her is that those who really do know her well don’t like her very much at all, and never did from the very beginning.

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

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