Empty White House?

JB, your way of looking at this is not dissimilar to Obama’s. You’re both looking at the same thing, but from different sides. Things or people exist only in relation to something or someone else; and then, only if there is a common element in both. There is no common element between you and POTUS. You watch Obama from afar and your expectation of what he should be doing does not match up with what you see. Therefore you say, “The White House is Empty.” If the moon should fail to rise on a night it is expected to, what would you say? “The sky is empty”? No, of course not. But most would recognize that something of profound significance had occurred.

Similarly, POTUS has taken a measure of what he understands his own sacred mission to be and decided that both the people and the Constitution (which he has sworn to uphold, by the way) are an impediment to him. Therefore, he has seen fit to sever these from his consideration and is now operating rogue. He has said in effect that the people and the Constitution do not exist as far as he is concerned.

That’s how we have come to the point where much of the legislation that has been passed already (during the past two years) is patently unconstitutional. But who would challenge it? Congress - the people’s representatives? Hardly. Congress, as an institution, has debased itself by flagrantly shirking its duty to represent the people; by governing against their will; by making disparaging remarks about constituents and their Constitution; by exempting itself (and ‘friends‘) from it’s own laws. Can you say ‘corruption’?

Much hope is being heaped on the incoming Republicans - particularly Tea Party- supported Republicans - in their ability to sweep in and clean up the mess. Too much hope, if you ask me. They will be faced with a stacked deck; tilting machines; computer keyboards with the ‘W’s’ removed; etc. Much of the damage has already been done (and is now irreversible), especially to the honor, credibility, and legitimacy of the concept of representative government overall.

Obama exists alright, in that everything he does affects us both directly and indirectly. He moves us willy-nilly, like sticks of furniture, around the room. We cannot respond - or, our response goes unheard and unheeded - while the wheels of what has already been set into motion grind on. It is we who do not exist. It is we who inhabit empty rooms. Obama is still president. He can do as he wants.

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