It’s tough out there for a Prez

By Jon Cordeiro

Filed Under Races 2010 on Feb 5 

Over the course of my professional career I’ve had my share of “tough” jobs. I’ve worked at desk jobs, landscaping jobs, and even a railroad job. All of them had their unique challenges and were “tough” in their own way. I’ve also worked with a wide variety of people and come across more than my fair share of whiners.

For the record, I have little patience and less tolerance for whiners. Just ask my daughter.

This past Wednesday, The One assembled Dusty Harry’s Band of Senate Democrats for a pep rally. I watched, or rather read, some of the video footage from this meeting as I abused myself on an elliptical machine at my local gym. In my final analysis, The One spent the better portion of two hours whining about obstructionist Republicans blocking his agenda since January of last year.

Just in case you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, let’s review the current political make up of the Federal Government:

The Executive Branch is currently ruled by The One and his merry band of Czars, Chicago Thugs, and leftist cronies.

The House of Representatives is run by The Pelosi. She and her loyal entourage can pass whatever they want.

The United States Senate pays homage to Dusty Harry Reid (D-Circus Circus). Up until yesterday, he had the magic 60 votes to pass through whatever legislation he deemed worthy.

To summarize our review, dear reader, The One had the ultimate trifecta. Among the three of them (The One, The Pelosi, and Dusty Harry) they needed not one single Republican vote to implement their agenda of Hope and Change.

With all this power to pass legislation they proclaimed America had been waiting for, one would think Wednesday’s pep rally would have been full of self congratulation, back slapping, and toasts to their success. Well, this wasn’t exactly the case. To be honest, I’ve seen more excitement at funerals. In fact, The One went so far as to cap off the Whine Fest with this jaw dropping line:

I know these are tough times to hold public office.

I’ll be the first to admit I know little about what it’s like to hold public office. That said, knowing what I know about the perks, benefits, and other advantages of being a federal elected official , I find it hard to label the job as “tough”. These people spend millions of dollars and far too much time campaigning for their respective jobs for me ever to take pity on the difficulty of what they do.

To label the job as “tough” is simply naïve. Then again, had The One ever actually held a real “tough” job, he’d have a better understanding of what “tough” actually is.

Comments

  • Brian H

    The POTUS is receiveing a lesson in middle school history 101. Our Founding Fathers were amazing. When our founders created a system of Checks and Balances they designed a system that would be extremely hard for any “One” person to “fundamentally change America”. Obama is now realizing this reality. I don’t want Washington to become less partisan. I like the fact that elected reps. stand their ground on issues that they have fundamental disagreements on. Inevitably they will be, as we are seeing, at the will of the populace they have been hired to represent. When Obama, or any one, starts the rhetoric of complaining about the partisanship in DC, I have to laugh because they are actually whining that the system is working to well for their liking.

    • http://twitter.com/theatomicmom East of Eden

      My first year teaching our Rep (Rep Jeff Flake of AZ-6) came and talked to my seniors, who were my government students. He spoke specfically about the checks and balances that are in place in our govt. He said that sometimes because of those checks and balances things go at a snails pace, but that pace allows the Congress or the Exec or Courts to weed out the really weird and bad stuff. I just got the feeling from him as frustration as it was, it’s still the best system in the world.

  • http://twitter.com/theatomicmom East of Eden

    All I have to say is you wanted the dumb job in the first place. Qwitcherwhinin’ and OWN IT already. Life is not a Sunday School picnic! :)

    • Red State Eddio

      Spoken like a real mama! :-)

      • http://twitter.com/theatomicmom East of Eden

        Or a junior high and high school teacher. I could have said something about putting on his big girl panties, but that’d be rude? haha!

        • Mrs Rusty Shackleford

          LOL EoE! That is one of our favorite sayings in my family….. Put on your big girl panties and get over it already.

          • The Saints!!!!

            I’m fast becoming a fan of this blog!!! ;)

  • Red State Eddio

    Call me incredulous over the rash of bizarre statements coming out of the WH these days:

    - It’s tough to be president with a supermajority?

    - the real message from MA was that he didn’t speak enough to us about his glorious plan on HC?

    - that they’re getting all PMS (no insult to the ladies who handle this better than these guys) about needing to freakin’ CHANGE THE FILIBUSTER rules because they couldn’t get their precious commie agenda passed!?!

    Absolutely mind-boggling. He’s more than tone deaf. He’s “frying pan off the side of the head” stone-cold oblivious to the rest of the country. Certainly no FDR in the making here.

    BTW: totally off topic – I’m up to 4 mi in 29 min on the ellipitcal. Whatcha clockin’ in at?

    • http://www.sotr.us Cordeiro

      I’m clocking about 3.5 miles in 30 minutes on the random hill profile. Makes it more interesting.

  • kristen

    Yeah, it’s real tough raking in all those millions. Give me a break. I also found last week’s escapade to the GOP convention ridiculous. Yeah; let’s whine to the Repubs about being obstructionists when you have the supermajority. (And you’re doing backroom deals and bribing to get your own party on board.)

  • Gadsdenista

    He is obscenely out of touch with what the average American faces.

  • Troy La Mana

    You didn’t understand. The Obamanation meant that it is now tough to be a Democrat because most the ones sitting before him will lose their jobs this November.