Game Over

Obama Is Seen as Frustrating His Own Party (New York Times headline, 8/19/2014)
But nearly six years into his term, with his popularity at the lowest of his presidency, Mr. Obama appears remarkably distant from his own party on Capitol Hill, with his long neglect of would-be allies catching up to him.
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But what is striking now is the way prominent Democrats’ views of Mr. Obama’s shortcomings are spilling out into public, and how resigned many seem that the relationship will never improve. In private meetings, Mr. Reid’s chief of staff, David Krone, has voiced regular dismay to lawmakers and top aides about White House operations and competency across a range of issues, according to several Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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Asked to characterize his relationship with the president, Mr. Manchin, a centrist Democrat who has often been a bridge builder in the Senate, said: “It’s fairly nonexistent. There’s not much of a relationship.”
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Few senators feel a personal connection to the president.
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Senator Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat who was an early supporter of Mr. Obama’s presidential bid, said that if her fellow Democrats were hoping for Mr. Obama to transform into a Lyndon B. Johnson late in his second term, they should quit waiting.
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But only twice in more than 180 rounds has the president invited members of Congress to play with him, and only one Democratic official — Senator Mark Udall of Colorado — has joined a presidential foursome.

And so now the charade is finally over. RedStateVT and others who have diligently reported the story of Obama's utter incompetence are completely vindicated.  The Liberal media has turned on him as have fellow Democrats. Yes, they are teeing up Hillary Clinton (no pun intended), but their abandonment of Obama is breathtaking. 


And More
Mr. Obama’s increasingly expansive appetite for the use of unilateral action on issues including immigration, tax policy and gay rights has emboldened activists and businesses to flock to the administration with their policy wish lists. It also has opened the president, already facing charges of executive overreach, to criticism that he is presiding over opaque policy-making, with the potential to reward political backers at the expense of other interests, including some on the losing side who are threatening to sue. 
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The go-it-alone approach has left the administration — which claims to be the most transparent in United States history — essentially making policy from the White House, replacing congressional hearings and floor debates with closed meetings for invited constituencies. ​(New York Times, 8/19/2014)

Just in case you had any doubts....


Really
These educators say their goal is not to vilify marijuana or take a stand on legalization; instead, they say their role is to convince young people and their parents that the use of drugs is not just a moral or legal issue, but a significant health issue.

“The health risks are real,” said Steve Pasierb, the chief executive of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. “Every passing year, science unearths more health risks about why any form of substance use is unhealthy for young people.” 
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Studies in New Zealand and Canada have found that marijuana use in the teenage years can result in lost I.Q. points. (New York Times, 8/18/2014)

Mere days after the New York Times editors initiated a week-long smoke-in extolling the benefits of legal dope, this article slips into the Science section. Oops!

Here's a thought. Are Democrats in favor of legalizing marijuana because down the road they, along with their trial lawyer friends, will then turn around and sue the dope companies like they did with the tobacco companies? Call us crazy, but....