"It would be good if Obama could be a dictator for a few years," said the director Woody Allen in 2010, as he dismissed Tea Party Republicans as obstructionists. The left holds this view even more fervently today. Speaking to the National Council of La Raza earlier this week, President Obama allowed himself a musing on dictatorship's appeal that met with great approval from the audience.
"Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own. And believe me, right now, dealing with Congress… the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that's not how -- that's not how our system works," he said, to which members of the La Raza audience responded with a chant of "Yes, you can!" and a cry of "Change it."
So, liberals dream about dictatorial powers for Obama. Yet this week they profess a deep regard for the virtues of "bipartisanship" and see themselves as unimpeachable arbiters of a "balanced" approach to the debt crisis. Nothing bothers them more than the "intransigence" of Tea Party Republicans, who perversely refuse to step aside and let Obama act like a debt-oblivious Third World dictator.
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