Lawless. Infamous. Untrustworthy. Echoes of how 1974 must have sounded to folks living in the nation’s capital.
Contrast those descriptions with that given by New York Times essayist Mark Leibovich to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie this very day: “[Christie] has a preternatural talent for appearing blunt and insistent when he is being cute and obfuscating. He is also a savvy tactician.”
When I was a young lad, I caddied. $4 a round. $6 for a double. Three rounds a day on the weekends. With tips you could make $25 in a day. Not bad for a 12 year old in 1968.
But there were jobs which, with sufficient seniority, you’d skip, even if it was the last bag of the day. Crazy Lou –who was given to every newbie because he yelled at you. A particular doctor who played worse then than I do now. And Mr. D.
Mr. D was a cheater. It was ignominious to be associated with him. Everyone knew he was a cheater. Everyone he played with. The pro shop staff. And of course the caddies. Everybody knew. He was disreputable.
So Mr. Obama has become, and so he will inalterably remain after 8 PM tonight. And not just to the Wehners and Forniers inside the Beltway, or me and my colleagues on the airwaves, or the GOP opposition within Congress.
No, Mr. Obama will be known to be a cheater and a fraud to his own party base, and especially to the people he purports to help. The people in the country illegally will know shortly that this stunt tonight does not help them and may in fact hurt them –badly.
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