Last week, the DNC proposed a bumper sticker showing Obama with the phrase 'Like a Boss'.
In the real world, successful bosses hold people accountable and accept responsibility when something goes wrong. A successful boss doesn't rely on the independent media of keeping him appraised to the comings and goings of Washington when his own phone that he brags about so much could get him the answers, and accountability, that a boss would demand.
There is a common underlying theme whenever one of these stories breaks that center around a nightmarish trifecta of absence of leadership, abuse of power, and rhetoric that never holds anyone accountable.
At this point you start looking over the docket of programs whose expenses have began to skyrocket and you start to take the cynical view of "What is going to be the next scandal?" Government programs are sky-rocketing; Tracfone (Obama-phone) usage, food-stamp usage, medicaid expansion, welfare expansion, and the number of people on disability all have sky-rocketed both in the wake of the '08 financial crisis, and continue to expand and inflate during this "recovery" that is on it's 6th year with no real indication that we will ever return to pre-crisis levels of employment.
Indeed, Obama is following the same pattern of crisis management he’s used for all of his scandals. Ignore all the warnings until they can no longer be ignored because someone on cable news actually read a report from the Investigator General. Then express stunned outrage. Promise accountability after a full investigation – but make clear, no action can be taken until the investigation is complete. Use this time to hold up investigations and clam up the people in the know. Perhaps fire another temporary administrator who was months away from retiring, or crack down on whistleblowers, and ignore inquiries from Congress, pointing out the stone walled investigation proves that there is nothing wrong. Six months later, when most Americans have moved on to other things, calling them “phony scandals.”
And when something is too difficult to address using the power of the White House, use social media.
But the scandals keep coming. The administrations 'wait for the storm to pass over' approach is seemingly always met with another report, another audit, or another FOIA that reveals another scandal, or picks open the scab of an older one. As many people begin to question our governments ability to accomplish things from collecting taxes to running hospitals, the only action this President can seem to take is to drum up another round of ways he can make things better. Seemingly oblivious to the lives and wealth that are being destroyed at rates that even twenty four hour news has trouble pacing.
No, there is no real aspect of this President that is 'Like a Boss'. Even a bad boss would lash out and flex his or her power and authority in some poorly thought out manner. One could suppose that "I have a pen, and I have a phone." was an attempt at such a maneuver. No, who we have sitting in the White House today is your 'just-getting-by' 9 to 5 employee. Who shows up 5 minutes late to meetings, take an extra 20 minutes for lunch, spends his afternoons watching YouTube when he should be writing reports. Then when the project is due he looks to his co-workers to bail him out. Uses terms like "We're 99% done" for 3 weeks in a row, and can be seen around the water cooler every morning from for the same 45 minute interval, talking about his plans for the weekend.
Obama isn't like a boss, he's like that prick from work everyone goes home at night and complains about to their spouse. Every office has one, if not more, and somehow we made him the President.
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