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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oh fer f*@k’s sake!
usually a ‘diva’ is good at something (singing, ballet, etc)…this lot is good at nothing.
One of my biggest questions (which I suspected was true) I’ve had was whether they were aware of what is being said about them. They do and because of that, I’m sure it piss es them off which makes me a happy “girl.”
MM said,
Does it get any bettah’ than that? TGIF
Skin so thin its the most transparent thing in the White House. and golf course, at Martha’s Vineyard, Spain…
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The Good Comrade didn’t look very happy in the video clip where Arizona’s Governor Jan Brewer was sticking her index finger in His face as she read Him the riot act. Some inconsequential thingy about the Mexican drug cartels, illegal (not “undocumented”) alien invasions, increased crime and violence along the border, etc.
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How dare this racist woman commit high treason against The Messiah? Doesn’t she know her place? All she needs to do is sit back and let President Obama’s brilliant plans bear some more fruit. Like more lawsuits against Arizona’s government and police. And the Federal Government bailing out on their agreements to use Arizona police to collect criminal illegal aliens and deport them.
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Put the wood to Him at all opportunities, Jan. Good work.
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John Bibb
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Riiighhhtt.. in was in the window of a bookstore he just happened to be walking by one Sunday afternoon, while walking his dog after his wife yelled at him for it peeing on the carpet..he just then happened to see it the…Michelle’s book.
i still want to know why nobody pushed brewer into joining the republican road show that was in florida last night. it seems she has the pair of christie, and the conservatism of the best in our party. nobody ever considered her for this race, and it leaves me scratching my head?
I did notice that Gov-Jan’s finger was pointed up, not at the BlessedOneOblamo. But no one will point that out in the LSM, I am sure.
Ran into a fair amount of that brand of accusation myself in the wake of the Housing/Fraud Bust. Evidently pointing out practitioners of everything from mortgage fraud to employing straw buyers bestows upon them sainthood in death?
How gauche of me to even bring it up.
I’m surprised Obama didn’t wet himself. He doesn’t seem the type for confrontation.
Ya know, if Obama would simply enforce the law and require his subordinates to do the same, there would be no basis for the discord and lack of civility.
Actively working against AZ when the people in that state are desperately trying to do what the Federal Govt ISN’T
hardly seems like a good faith response.
Obama, you are such a tool.
Me too. That feminist beast he’s married to has him trained well. BARRY! BARRY! I SAY you come here right now!!! You wanted this job!!!!
Step up the scrutiny MM and lay it out for all to see including Chitowns king and queen. The explosive unraveling by these posturing frauds will be a thing of beauty.
We take the senate and keep the house and regardless of whether this dumb as s remains in office, we’ll impeach him!
Good for Gov Jan Brewer. She’s doing what we all wish we could do to the president who runs guns south of the border.
I see now that the defense of women’s rights is not applicable here for the left. Brewer is in a one-down position as governor to president, and as a woman to a man. Where is the outcry about this egregious abuse of Mr Obama’s authority? Not gonna happen.
I hope that the governors of the United States will realize that they are one of our last lines of defense against the power of the federal government to oppress. The senate certainly isn’t ding anything about that.
It is so hard to engage with reality when you have used the White House as a bunker where even your own cabinet has very little access you. You end up socially incompetent and paranoid like Howard Hughes.
What would you expect from a sock puppet made from random pieces of crap? Nothing about the two Obummers is real; therefore you have poorly constructed facades that fall apart with the slightest pressure.
Misscheryl said,
Stunning observation. Talk about eating your peas? He looks like he’s being force fed daily. Help… Mr. Wizard! I don’t wanna’ be Teh pResident any more….
At $1.4 trillion for the pair, are you saying the cost of a diva these days is $700 billion? Add “overpriced” to the list of Obama adjectives.
Too bad he couldn’t create jobs like Howard Hughes.
For Obowmao, I guess it’s ‘Get all up in their grille’ for thee, not for me.
Bullies are like that.
My collie says:
As Rush said yesterday, bho has never had anyone go against him on anything. bho has been pampered and given everything he ever wanted. mo and jarrett are the two who tells bho what to do, IMO, and both stink!
I just want bho and mo our of Our House in 2012, then they can go sulk anyplace they want!
BTW, the letter Gov. Brewer gave bho was a way nicer letter than I ever would have given him!
L
Jan’s, you hit me and I’ll hit back harder, verbally speaking and in her book, has my attention.
Screw the civility police, and their “disresptful” comment.
Obama’s not getting with Brewer and other Governors about the illegal alien “Invasion”, is his middle finger to his nose that he thinks is cute.
He just told the crowd at the University of Michigan that the playing field has to be fair, everyone has to play by the same rules and pay their fair share. That is the country he grew up in and wants to get back to. Huh??? Of course he got cheers from all the brain dead students who all want a FREE PASS on the fair shake/share/field. God Help Us!!!
I say let’s nominate Jan Brewer for president with Bobby Jindahl as vice-president, Rick Perry as Secretary of Defense, and Sarah Palin as Secretary of State. It’s about time someone stuck a finger in his face. He is president, not king. We are Americans. We the People are in charge. The oligarchy of D.C. needs to understand that, and if it takes an angry governor to state it emphatically, I’ll stand on her side of the line drawn in the sand any day.
Cyber’s Collie woofed,
Seriously. Burn a jibber or whatever it takes to mellow you out dude. The aircrew won’t say anything as long as the billowing doesn’t reach common areas and trigger a positive. I’m sure Kal Penn ( he’s in your staff, remember..? ) could hook you up and play Call of Duty in a relaxed state of dress totally ripped!
You arrive totally refreshed! It’s a win-win.
If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.
Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.
If his forces are united, separate them.
If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them.
Sun Tzu 514 B.C.
I grew up in suburban Crook County during the reign of Hizzoner, Richard J. Daley, and the heydays of the “Machine.” I knew people who had city jobs courtesy of the machine and in those days, no city job wasn’t part of the machine’s patronage. For me, reading Culture of Corruption was like a walk in the past. Anybody who wants a deeper understanding of the political machine here, dig up a copy of late Chicago columnist Mike Royko’s book Boss, first published in 1971 (still available at Amazon). It’ll tell you all you need to know of the machinations of the Chicago Way which is alive and well today under Mayor “tiny dancer” Rahmbo and stretches all the way to DC, the White House and current occupiers, Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants.
My goodness, what could the President be compensating for?
Maybe his job performance is a teeny tiny bit.. disappointing?
..to seek more worship and adoration from his minions, no doubt. How typical of a tyrant. Criticism cannot be answered intelligently, or even tolerated. It must be quashed.
Now the forked tongue snake, bho, denies the tense encounter with Gov. Brewer?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-denies-tense-encounter-with-az-gov-good-publicity-for-her/
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They are checking their enemies list twice to see whose been naughty and who’s been nice. Obviously, Jan Brewer is on the naughty list.
stuckinIL4now said,
No jive. ( Has that changed since then? ) Still have my copy of “Boss” in the book case. Great to have handy, someone asks you what it was like where you grew up? Just hand ‘em the book.
In the throes of the Carter Economy my dad asked me what I was going to do for FT work and I said I might apply at the city? He laughed…
Perhaps this sniveling nitwit would not have to be so concerned if he were as transparent as he claims to be.
Whiner.
After reading the last two articles on this site, I have to say……………
……..NOBODY DOES IT BETTER………
Than Ms Malkin ……Jerry USMC (Ret)
How long until we see “Attack Watch” promos being slipped into his campaign ads?
Yeah, just ask the “mourners” of Kim Jong Il when they were found to be lacking in demonstrating extreme sadness. Off to the Re-Education Camp!! Same thing here… bow to the king emperor. Do not argue with the WON.
Go Governor Brewer, kick some a$$… she’s tough I love her for her fight for what’s right. Something the NObama’s know nothing about.
: she is no 1st lady by any means.
It could apply to Barry though, Flagrant Liar of the US.
Good to hear from your collie every once in a while.
Also typical of one likely raised as the sole child in a home where his self-esteem was stoked by those raising him and later by mentors who continued to stoke his ego for their future purposes.
Up to the time he became president, he was probably never personally subjected to harsh criticism, at least to his face. His detractors kept away and his opponents taken care of by his protective handlers, looking out for their best interests.
Well, to be fair, he has been off his feed ever since Reggie Love took his leave.
‘The Whine’ and his squeeze never figured out that they serve at the pleasure of US voters. US voters are NOT pleased! Out with you!
How many years have kids been told “You can grow up to be president!” without ever telling them that they need to put in a lot of hard work to get there. Now this guy comes along and gets elected without ever working a real job for a single day.
I guess maybe they were right.
Actually, figuring out they serve at the pleasure of voters is a concept many at most levels of government can’t or won’t comprehend. In many places they serve at the pleasure of their cronies as a direct means to tap into the public coffers for personal benefit. As well as serving their egos in lording over the unwashed masses.
Glenn Beck says Air Force One is Obama’s giant penis.
….I could have gone all day…
Yup, or being told “you can be anything you want to be”, or “the sky’s the limit”
The world has a nasty habit of hitting us upside the head with a good smack of reality. Generally you aren’t going to be anything you want to be. There are more often than not limits for us all.
For many in Obama’s and later generations, many children were given few boundaries, and the concept of applying oneself and working hard from the bottom up in the face of adversity was disregarded.
That’s just dandy. I’ll never be able to look at that plane again.
Where’s the eye bleach.
You just read my mind kinda..except replace the word “us” with Obama and replace the words “good smack” with “bi@#h slap.” There.
On January 27, 2012 at 09:43 am, Granny55 said:
Makes you wonder what rules all his green energy boondoggle companies were playing under. Companies getting millions of tax dollars with no competition….or maybe he wants to change the bankruptcy rules for his chosen companies.
Lying moron.
Or that you’re supposed to be born here…..
On January 27, 2012 at 09:48 am, Marshall_Will said:
Jibber? I bet he’s into blunts. Big fat ones.
On January 27, 2012 at 10:15 am, rightisright said:
How about First Leech of the US for Meanchelle?
bho never got the lesson on the golder rule. The rest of us are not his door mats so he can live in his bubble of self-promotion. He has become the prime example of what happens when an individual has learned how to create self-esteem base upon being able to do nothing more than breathing. Decades of rewarding the wrong skills have gotten us to this point. bho and mo……time to pack!
Well it’s not like Mo doesn’t have the hangar for it.
Ooh that was a bit over.
“Everyone “else” that is, and I’ll decide who they are.”
That’s what he meant.
Evidently, that part has become passe and irrelevant to some.
hey! I’ve missed you.
all it took was a fat chronic blunt!
–Jay
#8 On January 27th, 2012 at 10:52 am, Misscheryl said:
More likely, it was John Rogers who peed on the carpet and blamed it on the dog.
Michelle,
When you’re getting flak, it means you’re over the target.
Is that “Hangar” or “Hangers?” Big difference.
even a 747 looks small when you land it in the Grand Canyon.
Check this out from last year to whet your appetite. Mike Royko would break a typewriter with this bunch.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2011/11/02/obama-kick-back-cronyism-part-2-illinois-health-and-human-disservices/
This affirms exactly what you alluded to stuckinIL4now
Not when he is on the receiving end of the criticism. He can dish it out but can’t take it. He must have been seething when he walked away from Brewer.
F\WOT but following up on those joint military exercises held in LA a couple of nights ago, what’s with this in Santa Cruz? That’s over 100 tanks being brought in by rail. I realize that the SF Bay area is full of military facilities but…. Maybe it’s nothing.
The best thing I can say about Barry Soetoro:
He was never an officer in the U.S. Armed Forces
Maybe in Jakarta a finger pointing is something like a lethal threat…but anyone attending a US Public School and never got some or a bunch of teachers to give you the “now look here and pay attention” finger point and eyeball glare never got educated.
How can a person be so thin skinned and still be able to look at Moochelle in the morning without makeup?
I think that Obama is missing Reggie Love his purse carrier, and is having a male PMS attack.
The President was rather forward by putting his left hand on the Governor. He also towers over her. He deserved the finger pointing.
beginning to look like a tall skinny Kim Jung Il maybe.
It’s been 3 years and we still know very little about our president.
Having been on a jury, I know that this is actually simple assault, or what is defined as “unwanted touching”. Time to arrest the POTUS.
So, we know Obama’s Achilles heel. The GOP candidate needs to be one who can get that reaction in prime time. I have little doubt Sarah Palin would get under his skin. Women seem most effective. Conservative women are fearless and Obama’s Muslim training speaks to his misogyny.
There have been thousands, even millions of books and articles written criticizing Obama. Why is Gov. Brewer the one who gets “chastized”? Maybe he can’t fight the masses, so he picks on an easy target? He is a coward.
Hey, Obama, if you don’t like to be criticized, fight ‘em ALL!! Send your goons or something.
The networks and liberal media routinely lionized the late Texas Gov Ann Richards as a “woman of the people” when she’d launch scurrilous and unfounded attacks against the first President Bush but have all denounced brave Gov Brewer as a partisan hack for standing up for herself and her state!
Yeah that’s some real balance ya’ got going on thar, See-BS!
But Barry likes Alec Baldwin.
When did you ever see a bully pick on somebody bigger than he was?
He would have never been able to earn a security clearance.
Thanks Mrs. Brewer:
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/01/07/137765/another-arizonan-dies-brewer/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/us/03transplant.html?pagewanted=all
ILMC Impersonation of the Day
Thanks Mr. President:
http://news.yahoo.com/us-official-13-americans-killed-afghan-bombing-132131947.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-11/world/afghanistan.troops.killed_1_afghan-defense-ministry-spokesman-zabiullah-mujahid-coalition-forces?_s=PM:WORLD
Someone please remind me why I should give Obama ANY credit for the demise of terrorists or US victories in the War on Terror? Just what political capital did he have at stake?
Suspicious, when linked to a story I read where Soros mentioned something about the OWS movement making a comeback throughout the nation this summer with greater intensity and higher propensity in the use of violence.
Excuse for opening the door for using the military to supress the activity and a call for martial law maybe?
Some foreign nationals have clearances.
I’m not ready to make that conclusion but I would rather see this effort being directed at our borders. Instead, it sure seems like our government sees American citizens as the primary “national security” threat.
More is known about the past of those foregin nationals than Obama’s.
“On cue, one progressive commentator insinuated the gesture was a “racist” jab tantamount to lynching.”
On Cue, Stillontheroad calls the gun running by the Federal Government and the people killed on both sides of the border by the guns in question- Murder!!
And I call on The Court system to charge The Sock Puppet and eric Holder with Murder
Roger that. Add that many foreign national’s don’t have pinko parents.
My collie says:
Be careful collie. I’m pretty sure that Sally Field is a liberal.
The next president is gonna need a truckload of RID. Ewww.
There is one overriding reason women are most effective at getting under a man’s skin.
With the advacements in technogy progressing as they are nowadays, I say women’s secret weapon will be seen as relatively useless in less than 100 years.
happyscrapper:
Moochelle has the hangar where to park that baby in.
She also has the hangers under where you can park that baby.
He made that man piddle in his pants like a little baby.
-Delacroix
Are you friggin kidding me? Hey progressive commentator whoever you are, take two baseball bats by mouth and don’t bother calling me in the morning.
LAZY BRAIN-DEAD IDIOTS DEFINED: People who call everything they don’t like racist and then scream and yell when you try to question their intentions.
I’m wondering how Mr. cranky pants is going to react to this;
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I like Panetta. He is one of the few in the Administration that does not parrot the Obama doctrine; Obama is always right. The last guy who did that, Bill Daily, got fired as White House Chief of Staff. It will be interesting to see what happens here.
That is the saddest prediction I have ever read.
After Gov Brewer’s “greeting” on the tarmac, ObiWonKenobi walked away muttering to his hangers-on “I’m the President, I’m the President, I’m the President…doesn’t she get it? I’m the President!”
Everything is always about him, him and him. You’re the best, Jan!