Obama Blames the Founding Fathers for His Failures

President Obama no longer places the blame for his failures upon Bush, the Republicans, and the Tea Party alone.  It seems our nation's Founding Fathers are also at fault.  In a recent interview, Obama explained that he has been unable to bring about the hope and change he promised because "It turns out our Founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes".

I would have thought that a former constitutional law professer would know that the U.S. Presidency is an office with limited powers set within a system of checks and balances before assuming that office.   

Happy Birthday, President Reagan

Are You "Them!"?

Victor David Hanson:  "This is proving to be a Manichean administration. It sees the world in terms dark and light, of us/them, and then must create the necessary binaries to divide and demonize—so strange given this was the narrative of the Obama campaign against Bush, not so strange given the Chicago origins."

Community Organizer-in-Chief

Over at Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft notes that yesterday "Barack Obama lashed out at lenders who sold home loans to families who couldn’t afford them in his  Weekly Address . . . .  But Obama forgot to mention that he was the one who sued banks to force them to make loans to families who couldn’t afford them."  Any chance the media might ask him about this apparent hypocrisy?

The Devil is in the Details

While yesterday's headlines read that unemployment dropped to 8.3% (still .5% higher than when Barack Obama took office), a closer look at the details reveals this was partly a result of the civilian labor force tumbling "to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7% . . . . "  Should Barack Obama and the media really be trumpeting this as good news?

Obamacare vs. the First Amendment

Obama's Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sibelius, recently announced that Obamacare would require nearly all employers, including the Catholic Church, to offer, free of charge, insurance coverage for  "preventive services," which her department has defined to include contraception, abortion drugs, and sterilization services.  As Red State explains, the problem, at least in part, is that:

Catholics are bound by the Law of Moses expressed in The Decalogue not to commit murder. The Catholic Church considers an unborn child a fully-corporate, living human being. Abortion, kinetic or chemical, terminates this life and hence violates the Sixth Commandment of the Ten. Paying for this act to take place (by buying insurance or paying the penalty fee for not providing the insurance) would make the Church morally culpable for every one of these murders that occurred under the auspices of an ObamaCare-approved employer insurance plan. Sec. Sibelius has just ordered the Catholic Church to directly violate a fundamental precept of their faith.

 And so violated the First Amendment, which provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religioin, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . . ."  Sadly, the Catholic Church has itself to blame to the extent that it puts its trust Obama and previously supported Obamacare.

Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics

Over at the Forbes website, Daniel J. Mitchell compares the results of Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics.  Guess what?  As the chart to the left indicates, it isn't even close.  Read the whole article.

Three Years Ago Today

Fast and Furious

Powerline points us to an excellent column by Michael Hayden, the retired Air Force General and former director of both the NSA and CIA.  In his column, Hayden brings illustrates the irony of Holder's claim that "he has been subjected to a heavily politicized process over Fast and Furious," when Holder himself previously led a heavily politicized witch hunt against the CIA and its officers for its renditions, detentions, and interrogations of terrorists.

Some good news

Obama's recent poll numbers reflect his vulnarability while signs also suggest that his presumed money advantage in the campaign may not be materialize.