Quote of the Week: 12/06/2013 (Late)

Okay, two days late in coming. Sorry 'bout that...

Runners-up:

The president’s belief that little of what he does is ideologically driven suggests he is living with a pampered, unchallenged mind. He has been told he is so smart for so long that he sees only clarity in his actions and unchallengeable reason in his conclusions. The president’s belief in his own intellect makes him think that whatever he does is simply the only thing a thinking person would do. Nothing ideological about that. And as president, he is constantly flattered, and his confidence that his analysis and conclusions are superior to others is readily reinforced. Presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett tells us that Obama has been “bored to death his whole life.” Perhaps she is onto something. I guess there is something ho-hum and tiresome about being right all the time.
- Ed Rogers in his piece, The Insiders: Why would Obama say he is not ideological?‎

The necessity of "navigators" ought to be the first indicator that your law is unredeemably full of suck. Just sayin'.
- Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) December 2, 2013 --- 

Despite the fact that I once voted for President Obama, personal admiration is no substitute for the constitutional principles at stake in this controversy. When a president claims the inherent power of both legislation and enforcement, he becomes a virtual government unto himself. He is not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system; he becomes the very danger that the Constitution was designed to avoid…
- Jonathan Turley in his written statement, "The President's Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws"  Hat tip to Neoneocon

Central to the leftist's sense of vanity is his mistaken belief that he is an elevated person, in taste, intellect, and culture. In fact, he is none of these things. In almost all cases, he actually aspires to mediocrity -- or at least he would aspire to mediocrity, if he weren't already so convinced he had nothing else to prove to the world.
 - Ace, commenting on Martin Bashir's ouster at MSNBC

And this week's winner is:

We reduced Japan to a pile of radioactive smoking rubble in 1,346 days. It's now Day 1,355 and, despite promises to do likewise to the healthcare system, they're still working on it. The FDR administration built almost a hundred working aircraft carriers faster than the Obama administration has managed to build one working website.
 - Tam