Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants
Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2012
So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.
On Wednesday, the president had himself a mini-”Toddlers and Tiaras”-style meltdown with Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer after landing in Phoenix for a post-State of the Union dog-and-pony show. As Brewer told pool reporters on the scene, Obama took umbrage at Brewer’s recent memoir. She minced no words on the cover: “Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media, and Cynical Politicos to Secure America’s Border.”
And she minced no words describing her impressions of Obama as they sparred over her state’s tough immigration enforcement law, which is now the subject of a Justice Department witch-hunt. Brewer called Obama “patronizing” and “condescending.” I’d say she was excruciatingly polite.
According to Brewer, “He was a little disturbed about my book. … I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read (an) excerpt.” In the shadow of Air Force One, Obama complained that Brewer hadn’t “treated him cordially” and then stalked off while she was responding mid-sentence.
Photogs captured the fracas on film. The civility police gasped at Brewer’s “disrespectful” finger-pointing. On cue, one progressive commentator insinuated the gesture was a “racist” jab tantamount to lynching.
The president was singing a more laid-back tune last summer. As debate on Capitol Hill over the debt ceiling and spending sizzled, Obama bragged to reporters: “I’m not trying to poke at you guys. … I generally don’t watch what is said about me on cable. I generally don’t read what’s said about me even in The Hill (newspaper), so part of this job is having a thick skin and understanding that a lot of this stuff is not personal.”
Uh-huh. At least two other Republican governors — Rick Perry of Texas and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana — have recounted similar presidential snit fits on the tarmac. He sulked over a letter Jindal wrote to the administration about food stamps for Gulf oil spill victims; he bolted after a half-minute meeting with Perry at an Austin airport over border security issues.
You know those “petty grievances” of “Washington politics” that Obama has long condemned? Now it can be told: He knows whereof he squawks.
As New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor’s new book, “The Obamas,” reveals, the president and his inner circle spent even more time carping about conservative influence on public opinion. “He wanted the media to be more of a referee; to put unfair Republican charges to rest,” Kantor discovered. “He could brush off the wildest, most baseless attacks themselves, he told (senior adviser and Chicago pal) Valerie Jarrett, along with (campaign finance bundler and treasurer) Marty Nesbitt and (bundler and finance mogul) John Rogers, at lunch in the little dining room next to the Oval Office.”
But what “galled him,” the book observed, “was when they gained mainstream credibility despite distortions of truth.”
Kantor then dutifully served as a pro-Obama referee:
“Rogers had just noticed a new book by the conservative columnist Michelle Malkin called ‘Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies.’ Among many other allegations, Malkin wrote that Michelle Obama — the president’s ‘bitter half’ — was secretly running the country in Lady Macbeth-like fashion. Malkin even took a hatchet to long-dead Fraser Robinson (Mrs. Obama’s father), arguing with no evidence that his job at a water plant made him part of the ‘Chicago political corruptocracy.’ The book debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction bestseller list and stayed there for weeks.”
The facts? It was a former alderman in Chicago, Leon Depres, who provided evidence that Robinson’s job in the city water department was a reward for loyalty to the Daley political faction.
It was Washington Post writer Liza Mundy who reported that the department was “a renowned repository of patronage jobs.”
It’s the Illinois press that has long documented Mrs. Obama’s ties to the Chicago machine. It’s Kantor herself who spotlighted the first lady’s internecine warfare with her husband’s Cabinet. And from her meddling in everything from the AmeriCorps inspector general firing case to her aggressive, Big Labor-backed push for a publicly subsidized food police corps, Michelle Obama has been openly expanding her East Wing fiefdom in Marie Antoinette-like fashion.
How long before we see a FLOTUS tarmac tantrum? We did get two divas for the price of one. As longtime observers of the royal Obamas have long observed: Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants’ problem has never been the color of their skin. It’s the thinness.
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Please don’t encourage him.
Reminds you of the question “boxers or briefs”, but in this case, it’s probably pull-ups.
and: Jan, you just wait until Moochelle hears about this! You just think she was an angry black woman – you ain’t seen nuttin yet – YO!
Look on the brightside, you’ll no longer have to cuddle afterwards.
123upnorth:
Sorry my man, but holograms, blowup dolls or robot sex slaves can never take the place of a warm body. You should try it sometime.
Rogue Cheddar:
What’s wrong with cuddling afterwards? Figures you’re not in a cold place, with night temperatures well below freezing.
…and we’re off to the races…
Hey Conservative Hispanic – you and your friends made the news:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101436707
I don’t have to now.
I just roll her off of me, and cover her with a sheet.
Hey ILovetheLittleBunnyRabbitsGeorge –
You and your friends are OLD news.
Ilovetostickmyheadupmya$$:
Figures that an ignoramus like you would make such a bigoted remark. They look like a bunch YOU would like to hang out with. Not all Hispanics look like MS-13 gangbangers.
Ilovemycountry:
Be very careful, Ilovemycountry, if you happen to be a t-shirt.
Ilovetostickmyheadupmya$$:
I know that for stupid, ignorant people like you, all Hispanics look alike. You should read some Latin American history (that is, if you can read and comprehend beyond a first grade level). Then you can learn that Hispanics come in all colors and ethnic backgrounds. These bunch look like they come from Mexico or Central America, not the Caribbean, where I come from, you bigot.
conservative hispanic:
Don’t let Ilmc get to you. This is Ilmc’s job.
Riiight….
Makes me think of Margaret Thatcher’s comment, which is something like: “Being a lady is similar to being powerful; if you have to tell someone that you are,…you’re not.”
Or, like the old stand-by, “If you gotta tell ‘em who you is,…you isn’t.”
For example, take the never-weres and has-beens who do TV commercials/spots; who either have to tell you who they are, or whose name is shown at the bottom of the screen. If they were in fact (still) well known, the audience would already know who they were, and would not have to be told.
B. Hussein Obama, by having to tell us that he has a thick skin, is merely declaring that he is thin-skinned….
I could be wrong, but I’m going to hazard a guess that if anyone who had actually been lynched been offered the choice, he would have opted for “the finger.” These tools don’t have the intelligence to pour pi$$ out of a boot with the instructions on the heel.
Ms Malkin, still love you, but learn some French history and stop picking on Marie Antoinette.
FIFY
Oh, c’mon now. Obeyme wants us to believe that he “doesn’t read what’s written about him.”? Huh, his galactically-sized ego tells me he, or his tools, read anything and everything, even if its a two sentence bit in the Salisbury Gazette.
You da bomb, Jan.
Oh, forgot to mention….Ms. Malkin’s books are ALL on the New York Times Bestseller Lists….someone is reading them to Obeyme.
Well of course that’s true. I mean who doesn’t equate a finger poke, with hanging somebody from a tree until they are dead??
Pot (the size of Jupiter) meet kettle. Good grief.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Most become infected in public school or at a University.
Generally beginning in kindergarten and lasting through, and beyond, doctoral programs in liberal studies.
Like that will go anywhere.
And walking away mid-sentence is so very cordial…
For a thread about the crankiness of the President, lots of people seem rather cranky today themselves.
I LOVE this statement! I’m going to have to use it if you don’t mind, Mrs. Malkin.
If he gets his panties in a wad over little things like this, I cannot WAIT till Obummer has his posterior handed to him by whoever receives the GOP nomination. I don’t think we’re going to be seeing him treated with kid gloves like we did in ’08. It’s going to be fun to watch.
Like a snotty 15 year old. I can picture him stomping back up the steps of Air Force One and slamming the door behind him.
He’s an angry adolescent. A brat. Yikes.
He may go Captain Queeg on us. Dangerous guy. I can see him fuming in his room saying, “I’ll fix YOU!!!” Scary.
OT but didn’t I say this was around the corner last week – choice is capitalism. Welcome to socialism by was of EPA regulations
There are a growing number of countries that impose harsh punishment upon those that criticize their leaders. I suspect that we Americans will get the same treatment if Obambi gets his way. You can bet that he thinks that way and too many in both Parties already agree with him on the subject.
Hey, do cranky pants ever get wasty pants with Snooki?
Umm, I think you are stuck there for a reason.
Meanwhile, back to the topic. The President of the United States ought to be able to diffuse the tension during a disagreement. Its an important skill.
Peter Schweizer, Writes Mr. cranky pants a Letter
President Obama made an interesting promise during his State of the Union address this week. Specifically, he said:
Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress. I will sign it tomorrow. Let’s limit any elected official from owning stocks in industries they impact.
Dear President Obama,
I watched your State of the Union address on Tuesday night and I want to welcome you aboard the reform train. You had some pointed things to say about congressional insider trading, which was a center point of my book “Throw Them All Out” which was published last November.
He gets specific:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/01/27/president-obama-if-youll-take-on-insider-trading-will-also-deal-with-crony/
In stead of cranky, The Closer/Detective Brenda Johnson would say, “Don’t get the Grumpy Uglies.”
This presidential primary is shaping up to be exactly like KY’s GOP gubernatorial primary race last spring.
In May of last year, the state’s liberal print media and Republican honchos tag-teamed to successfully convince voters that only the establishment candidate, state senate president David Williams, and not the Tea Party’s nominee could defeat incumbent Democrat Gov Steve Beshear in the general election.
The result: KY now has to look forward to another four years of near ten percent unemployment, nil economic growth, and unmanageable increases in our welfare and foodstamp rolls under liberal Democrat Gov Steve Beshear.
In a “the devil we know” type of race not only did Beshear win reelection in a landslide, but every state office but one (agriculture commissioner) was swept by the Democrats – even Jack “Aqua Buddha” Conway was reelected AG!
If the Republicans hope to recapture the White House they had better give Newt Gingrich a second look, because Romney just ain’t doin’ it out here in the hinter lands.
Or better yet, maybe the GOP should just focus on retaking the Senate and increasing their leads in the House and let Romney rise or fall on his own.
You should go to her facebook page. It is getting swarmed by unhinged libs screaming for her head, and calling her racist.
There are even people saying that the Secret Service should have arrested her for it.
Well maybe if their president would learn to husband the economy instead of
controlconstrict it through hyper regulation and unconstitutional oversight committees, they’d have jobs and less time to misdirect their pent-up energy.And for all you Brewer critics, if lib-Democrat Ann Richards had stuck her finger in Pres Bush’s face – which she all but did in 1992 – you would have celebrated her to no-end; your hypocrisy speaks loud and clear!
Did they even read your book?