Obama’s Political Ploys Could Backfire

Obama’s Political Ploys Could BackfireAmerican Thinker ^ | January 9, 2012 | Ed LaskyPosted on Monday, January 09, 2012 12:34:17 PM by jazusamoBarack Obama is taking a bigger risk than he realizes, testing the limits of the American electorate’s patience with his insultingly manipulative political strategies.

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He is playing with fire.The president’s campaign strategy is to distract attention from his record of failure by attacking a do-nothing Congress. He has pointed his finger yet again at Republicans for putting the interests of the rich one percent over the welfare of the rest. President Obama has used this bogeyman to justify actions that, had a Republican taken them, would be bandied about the media as grounds for impeachment.While these steps may fire up his base and win applause from certain quarters, they also bear grave political risks for the president.

They may also ignite…~snip~Republicans must point out that Obama has constantly circumvented the will of the people when he has imposed regulations that will increase our energy costs his “war on carbon”; his refusal to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, granted a disproportionate number of ObamaCare waivers to union members; made non-recess recess appointments; imposed czar after czar, blatantly ignoring the “advise and consent” role that the Constitution gives to the Senate; selected radical federal judges — who have lifetime tenure — whom even the left-leaning American Bar Association finds “not qualified” to a shockingly large extent Obama has his own court-packing scheme; flouted bankruptcy laws when he handed over a big chunk of the auto industry to unions and left taxpayers holding the bag; and the list goes on and on.

There is a surfeit of material for Republicans to use in commercials, and each one should end by raising the specter of what President Obama would do in a second term — completely free of concerns regarding the electoral consequences of his aggressive actions.Excerpt Read more at americanthinker.com …

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