President Obama's Purchase Of The Union Address

Obama Hood strikes again! Our president told his fellow Democrats (Smurfs) that he is going on offense. While the veto is defensive to its core, we got a pretty good glimpse last night of what the president meant by offense. What is he doing other than goaltending under the basket?

Picture Obama trying to steal 3rd base, caught in a pickle. McConnell is plaing 2rd; Boehner is playing 3rd. McConnell is telling Obama  to stay on 2nd where it is safe; negotiate with us; compromise with us. But Obama's third base coach (pick any progressive) is waving him in telling him not just to steal third, but go for home, so Obama takes off. Boehner shakes his head as if to say, "I knew he was going to do that."

Now Obama is caught ..... running back and forth to avoid being tagged out by the glove of irrelevance.He throws this goodie at the people then that. ... this then that .... all the while saying he will take it away from the people in the sky boxes in order to pay for them. "FREE hot dogs and ice cold beer for everyone!" he yells to the people in the stands. The people cheer, but they know he is just shouting. They know he can't deliver. They know that he is out.

No one will get a free hot dog. No one will get a free beer. No one will get anything. Why? Because that is what happens BETWEEN 2nd and 3rd base. You're trapped, with no chance to get home. The pickle you get caught in serves up some short term excitement until the runner is tagged out, hanging his head for the walk of shame back to the dug out.

THIS was Obama's speech last night. An exciting pickle that will end with Obama .... AND his fellow Smurfs ..... called out in 2016.

We will talk more about this Purchase of the Union Address tonight especially in terms of how it keeps the people divided against themselves which, as I said last night, may be the point.