Commentary
Remember Saint Barack Obama’s cocky “I’ve got a phone and a pen”?
That was the light-worker’s way of saying if he couldn’t get what he legislatively wanted through Congress and the normal conventions of Washington law-making, then he would arrogate to himself the power to do so. Mr. Obama was the progressive of all progressives, and this little boast has the force of a revelation into the progressive mind.
Part of what makes people who are determinedly progressive so obnoxious is their astonishing conviction that if they think something is right and good, why then, because they think it, it must be so….