Hubris isn’t just the stuff of Greek tragedies

May 15, 2012
John SACS
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The Curse of the Second Term – Benghazi, IRS attack on Tea Party/Patriot groups, and Justice Department Spying on Journalists

Barely 100 days has passed since Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated to his second term on January 21, 2013.

In that time, he has failed miserably in his attempt to exploit the Newtown Tragedy. Obama’s, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s, and Senator Diane Feinstein’s goal was to begin the assault against the 2nd amendment and destroy it slowly one bill at a time. 

Sadly, for Obama, but not for the 2nd Amendment, he couldn’t even pass a watered down anti-gun bill that supposedly ninety percent of the American people support. Who are these 90 percent? They are certainly not any believer in the Bill of Rights that I know.

What else was on Mr. Obama’s agenda? Oh yes, Immigration Reform. Here is another item that was critically important to Obama, the Democrats, and many Republicans. 

Where are Congress and the White House on the Immigration Bill?  Nowhere as far any one can see nothing and nothing will come of it based on Obama’s drive and legislative effectiveness.

All of the above items plus the sequester redo and lowering how Social Security payments are made and other items on the Obama agenda are grinding to a halt.

What is amazing is that Obama was becoming a lame duck based on his own arrogance, laziness, and ineptitude at governing.

But, then Monday May 13, 2013 occurred.

What happened? Three seemingly different stories began to get linked.  Benghazi, the IRS targeting of Tea Party and Patriot groups, and the Justice Department (led by Attorney General Eric Holder) spying on the Associated Press (AP).

The establishment and the incestuous main stream media were going to give Obama their usual free pass on Benghazi and the IRS stories, by claiming they were the usual Democrat versus Republican stories but then the AP story broke.

The media adores Obama, but they love themselves even more.

The Justice Departments attack on AP and all of their reporters, phone lines, cell phones and who knows what else is just to much for media to take.

If the media doesn’t circle their wagons and protect each other and go after Obama ferociously and immediately, their 1st Amendment right will be gone and they know it.

As long as it was just our Bill of Rights, especially the 2nd and 4th Amendments, the media was only too happy to dance to Obama’s tune and support him obsequiously.

However no that it is the media’s rights that are under assault, they will not stand for it and they will go on the attack.

The AP story is the only story that will get the media to do their job on Benghazi and the IRS stories and many others.

The press is beyond angry. Obama crossed a line that should never be crossed by anyone including the President, Congress, and business leaders.

Going after the press is career suicide. Ask Richard Nixon, Patricia Dunn (former Chairman of HP, who authorized spying on reporters) or General Motors in the 1970s when they spied on Ralph Nader and his Raiders (yes, the same Ralph Nader who ran for President on 2000 and 2004)

President Obama, promised to have the most transparent administration in history, is proving to be the second coming of Richard Nixon, without having Nixon’s brains, foreign policy chops (unless you count Leading From Behind in Libya) and his legislative agenda successes.

Obama has Nixon’s arrogance, sneakiness, and overall meanness and now he has made Nixon’s great mistake of going after the press.

For a person who we are constantly told is so smart, how could he have done something so stupid?

Hubris. Hubris isn’t just the stuff of Greek tragedies, it the key ingredient for all monumental human failings and it looks like President Barack Hussein Obama is about to join the long list of presidents, which includes Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, who destroyed their second terms, some worse than others, based on hubris.

It couldn’t have happened to a more arrogant guy.