It's not that America has become "soft" or "dysfunctional" or "racist." Americans are dragging their feet simply because they reject the Obama agenda.
"Stop complainin', stop grumblin', stop cryin'." shouted out Mr. Obama with a preacher's fervor in a recent speech in front of the Congressional Black Caucus. Even Maxine Waters was taken aback.
On his weekly radio speech yesterday, Mr. Obama said: "It is time for Congress to get its act together and pass this jobs bill so I can sign it into law."
The President cannot bring himself to acknowledge that there is significant disagreement with his policies, both on the Left and on the Right. Since, in Mr. Obama's mind, this disagreement cannot have any rational basis, cannot be legitimate or offered in good faith, it must have some other, darker, cause, namely, that America has become "soft" or that Congress is "dysfunctional" or that the Tea Party is "racist." Therefore, Americans need to be bullied into doing what Mr. Obama wants them to do.
We have seen this modus operandi before with the passage of Obamacare. Don't deliberate. Just "get your act together" and pass the damn bill. People will realize later what is in it and how smart I was to pass it.
It is as if the President is saying: "It is enough that I, Barack Hussein Obama, have thought deeply about these issues and have decided for everyone what is the best thing to do. Any further delay or deliberation is just a waste of my precious time. So, just shut up and do what I tell you to do."
There is a certain haughtiness in this, a disgust with having to descend to the level of ordinary politics. Why can't they all just see how brilliant I am, how impeccable my reasoning is? This is the certainty of the central planner. The intelligence and knowledge of a single individual or of a small cadre of bureaucrats is supposed to substitute for all the distributed wisdom of the masses. And, if the policies fail, it will not be the fault of the policies themselves. Rather, it will be because the masses didn't cooperate.
Yes, fortunately, in circumstances like these, the masses do begin to slow walk.
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