Fighting Obama’s Fire With Fire of Our Own!

President Obama is nothing if not a clever operator. He accepts $994,795 in campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs — then turns around when it’s convenient and uses them as a model for why we need to heavily regulate the financial sector. He accepts the support of the gay community during the election cycle — then turns around and delays the implementation of “don’t ask, don’t tell” for as long as humanly possible. He accepts the support of the Jewish community — then turns around and attempts to force Israel to surrender to Iran and her terrorist allies.

Some people would call this two-faced. Chicagoans call this business as usual.

For the first time, however, President Obama is facing the wrath of a growing majority of Americans who aren’t part of his favored constituency groups. It’s one thing for him to tamp down the anger of financial backers or gays or Jews. It’s quite another for him to quell the rage of Americans who despise his destructive agenda.

The tea party embodies that rage, and Obama isn’t quite sure what to do about it. He tried to co-opt it, suggesting that tea partiers were truly the same disaffected Americans who had elected him: “The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they’re frustrated.” Read More