Trust Is Not Open to Negotiation
Negotiate with terrorists? (via Dan Riehl) Sounds like someone has entered the Denial stage of the Kubler-Ross Grief Cycle.
The Van Jones resignation was not the result of a negotiation. A negotiation involves an exchange of concessions between two parties. And the Mob has conceded nothing.
A negotiation requires a dialogue. But the President doesn’t want the Mob “doing a lot of talking”.
The Van Jones resignation is simply the end result of another one of Obama’s mistakes – a miscalculation – requiring a quick correction for the sake of his political standing. You want to be angry at someone for the Jones resignation? Be angry at Obama.
This didn’t have to happen. But someone hired Van Jones. Then someone else talked about his background; and the story grew. It grew big enough for someone in the White House to say “Van must resign”. And now Van Jones is history.
And POTUS is caught in a quandary: if he denies asking for the resignation, he seems out of touch. If he takes credit for demanding the resignation, he looks weak. And indeed, Obama is weakened. But largely by his own hand, because the President’s strength does not derive from his Office. It derives from the People’s trust.
Trust is not given. Trust is earned. And because trust is not given it also can’t be taken away. Like anything earned, however, it can be squandered.
The President has been squandering the People’s trust over 200 days. And now here we are: with the Left defecating bricks; the President weakened, and the Right getting its way without so much as a negotiation.
As for the “terrorist” name-calling, you better buck-up, Lefties. If you find the Mob terrifying then you are half-defeated. And that’s a little unsportsmanlike, given that you’ve only been controlling both Houses of Congress and the White House for about 200 days, cheered all along by a largely fawning mainstream media.
You know, what? Maybe the Left should be terrified.
Boooh!
