So Far the President Wins at Partisan Leadership and Dodge Ball

Posted by Tina

The President has a successful record at dodging responsibility for every negative thing that happens on his watch. When scandals hit the President sits on the sidelines and comments as if he’s simply an observer of events. And yet when positive events occur, like the killing of Bin Laden, he pushes to the front to claim responsibility and brag like a teenager. How is it that this man, who is supposedly the smartest guy in the room, never knows anything about what’s happening even within departments that are under the executive branch and his direct authority? The media has been a great helper from the start, forming a shield of protection and promotion around him. His staff creates talking points to feed them. But his leadership is well documented because the President can’t help himself…he has to brag…he has to stir up his base by making derogatory remarks about his political “enemies”. Because of his ego need to be seen as the smartest guy in the room, Mr. Popularity with the people, he is able to lead by suggestion. There may never be a paper trail, or secret tapes, that lead directly to his door as there was with Nixon, but that doesn’t mean that he won’t be slammed with the current scandals broiling around him. The Presidents responsibility flows from his partisan campaign style…his words direct activism to those who see him as “the one” they have “been waiting for” to “fundamentally transform” this nation.

If the President didn’t personally direct the targeting of conservative organizations by the IRS (a possibility I find hard to swallow-see below), he absolutely influenced those who support him and ran the department to act through their organization to suppress conservative speech during a political campaign. Evidence about targeted groups is all over the web for any citizen to see but evidence of the Presidents influence and leadership style can be found in his own words. Karen Quinlan of the American Thinker counts the ways. But a more direct hit in the Presidents dodge ball game may have hit the target today. The American Spectator has the information:

March 31, 2010.

According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, visited the White House at 12:30pm that Wednesday noon time of March 31st.

The White House lists the IRS union leader’s visit this way:

Kelley, Colleen Potus 03/31/2010 12:30

In White House language, “POTUS” stands for “President of the United States.”

The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America. The IG report wrote it up this way:

April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit, suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.

In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS “Determinations Unit Program agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.” As stated by the IG report.

The NTEU is the 150,000 member union that represents IRS employees along with 30 other separate government agencies. Kelley herself is a 14-year IRS veteran agent. The union’s PAC endorsed President Obama in both 2008 and 2012, and gave hundreds of thousands of dollars in the 2010 and 2012 election cycles to anti-Tea Party candidates.

I have said the President is not a leader. I was wrong. I should have said the President is not interested in leading our nation or acting as President. He has no interest in “working for the American people, as the popular saying goes. He does lead, however, as a person of great influence and support, a community organizer, to hold the position of president while advancing a radical political socialist agenda. This is why he is constantly campaigning, (when he’s not playing golf or going on vacation). This is why he always seems to be standing above the fray of every day events…including oppression and spying done on his behalf by radical organizers embedded in the IRS and other government departments!

So far dodge ball has been a winning game for President Obama but now that scandalous facts are breaking through his protective shields will he be able to successfully dodge responsibility and blame for these egregious acts of suppression and harassment against American citizens and other failures of presidential leadership?

It all depends on you and me. How willing are you to live in a country where the President can count on the IRS and other departments to harass you? How long will you be satisfied with a president that runs community organizers placed to advance his agenda rather than leading our nation?