Vice President Joe Biden, a man who sometimes suffers from "foot in mouth disease", will probably be the man who saves President Obama from his own path of self-destruction. It is the Vice President who has had the savvy and the foresight not to have burned the bridge to what will be a Republican Congress.
In his own inimitable way, he has incurred the wrath of Barry by suggesting that immigration reform be delayed until the next Congress convenes on January 3. Barry, of course, has for months threatened to go it alone on this issue. In fact, he subtly announced on Wednesday, the day after the election, that it would happen in the next few weeks.
Of course, this prompted an immediate reaction from Speaker Boehner that "when you play with matches" the result is not a good one. Ironically, it was the Vice President, a man of allegedly not so keen intellect who got the message.
For years, I admit that I called him the "dumbest man in the White House". For that, I now apologize to the Vice President and his many supporters. If Barry goes through with this threat to unilaterally and unconstitutionally change our immigration policy without the consent of the Congress, he will prove he is dumber than a box of rocks.
If Barry were so passionate about immigration reform, why did he not present this to a Democrat-controlled Congress in 2009? Was he afraid it would not pass even then? Was he afraid a loss in the Congress would tarnish his gilded luster? I wonder. And now, he wants to bypass the Congress? Is he looking to be a complete failure, lumped in with Richard Nixon or Andrew Johnson as a Constitutional violator? Is that to be his ultimate legacy?
Is he betting that Boehner and McConnell won't stand up to him? Is he that much of a megalomaniac? Trust me, if he does go through with this, I believe they will shut off the money spigot and it will be he who caused the government to shut down. All because he thinks he still has the people on his side.
Hey Barry, here is a news flash: other than Chris Matthews, Al Sharpton and the other fools on MSDNC, who have no independent journalistic integrity, everyone else, including your Vice President, understands that you LOST the election. Even your DNC chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in her own way gets it.
And while there isn't enough votes to convict you, today, in the Senate, if you violate your Constitutional oath to take care that the laws, ALL OF THEM, are faithfully executed, again, Cogent Joe is warning you to not do anything stupid. He should know; he has a true sense of the Senate, more than anyone else in Washington.
On this, if I were you, I would listen to him.
If you don't, you may be writing your memoirs from the inside of another Federal facility, one with towers and bars and gunneries. In the heart of America. You know, Fort Leavenworth. With no lifetime pension or decent health care. That would be the worst of all possible legacies.
Even Nixon, in the end, understood that.
Listen to the most reasonable man in Washington; he is doing you the favor of a lifetime.
On this, Joe Biden is now the “smartest man in the White House”.
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