Jewel Robertson – 8/1/12

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Boils down to hate; Jewel Robertson; Beaver County Times; August 1, 2012.

Until January 2007, Ms. Robertson’s letters (here, here, here, and here) focused on bashing President Bush. In her first letter, Ms. Robertson opined that President Bush could be listening to Satan. That tells us much of what we need to know about Ms. Robertson. Since January 2007, race has been a regular feature of her letters, though Ms. Robertson reverted to Bush bashing in “‘No one can be as bad as Bush was’.” As I wrote about another serial Bush-basher, I guess some addictions are too tough to overcome. The last Robertson letter I critiqued was “Attacks on president disrespectful.”

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“I agree with Ms. Berresford in her recent letter that the Congress does not have the American people at their best interest.”

[RWC] By Congress, Ms. Robertson must mean Republicans because President Obama had significant Democrat majorities in both houses of Congress for two years (2009-2010), including a period with a filibuster-proof Senate. As we saw with Obamacare, Republicans couldn’t stop anything Mr. Obama wanted even when not a single Republican voted for it. If something Ms. Robertson wanted didn’t get passed during those two years, she can’t blame Republicans. Democrats remain the majority in the Senate. Here’s an interesting factoid: The last two years the Democrat-majority Senate voted down Mr. Obama’s budget proposals 99-0 and 97-0.

When Ms. Robertson and Ms. Berresford claim “Congress does not have the American people at their best interest,” they make the flawed assumption failed leftist policies/programs are in America’s best interest.

“Ever since President Obama was elected they have openly fought his administration on every issue. I also agree when she said she wonders what could have taken place if he had received the respect and given the authority to do the things he deserved to do as the president of the United States of America.”

[RWC] I don’t remember Ms. Robertson complaining when Democrats “openly fought [the Bush] administration on every issue.” Overall, voters voted as they did in 2010 to slow/stop Mr. Obama’s agenda.

Ms. Robertson appears to believe we should elect representatives who will serve as a president’s rubberstamp. What happened to checks-and-balances function of the three branches of our government? The very reason the 2010 election went as it did was because voters couldn’t “help but wonder what [Mr. Obama] might have gotten done had he been given” again the power he already had for two years. For example, the majority of Americans opposed a government-run, taxpayer-funded healthcare monopoly yet Democrats shoved Obamacare down our throats without a single Republican vote. As a reminder, the Obamacare bill included a government takeover of the student-loan business.

Given her history of Bush-bashing, it’s funny to see Ms. Robertson write about people not respecting Mr. Obama.

“This is the most punctual letter I’ve read recently. Most people wouldn’t have the guts to speak the truth as she has done. I wonder myself why it is not in their best interest to pass all of those bills that need to be passed to get our country moving in the right direction. It all boils down to hate. Hate is a destroyer.”

[RWC] “Punctual?”

The “bills that need to be passed …” are simply more of what got passed in 2009-2010. If those policies/programs had worked, we wouldn’t be having this discussion because the economy would be expanding nicely. Instead, GDP growth (annual rate) for the second quarter of 2012 was 1.5%, down from 2.0% (previous estimates were 2.2% then 1.9%) for the first quarter, and July unemployment was 8.3% (higher when you count people who gave up looking for a job), up from 8.2% in May & June and 8.1% in April.

As many (most?) lefties, Ms. Robertson likes to claim opposition to Mr. Obama’s policies/programs is the result of “hate and racism.”

Ms. Robertson knows about “hate.” Back in 2004 (“Bush could be hearing Satan”), Ms. Robertson told us then-President Bush likely listened to Satan. Later Ms. Robertson took aim (“Watch what Bush does”) at one of Mr. Bush’s daughters and wrote, “A tree is known by the fruit it bears. So far, his tree is good for nothing but to be cut down.” In another letter (“Bush doesn’t care about life”), Ms. Robertson wrote, Mr. Bush “doesn’t care about anyone’s life but his own and his family’s.” The “good for nothing” Bush daughter? Though dated, here’s some info about Jenna Bush Hager from Wikipedia.

“Before leaving Washington, D.C. in Summer 2006, Hager worked at Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School for a year and a half as a teacher’s aide. She took a leave of absence from the Charter School teaching position to work at a shelter as part of an internship for UNICEF’s Educational Policy Department in Latin America, specifically in Panama. After her internship for UNICEF, Hager returned to her position at the charter school in Washington, D.C. She currently works as a part-time reading coordinator at the SEED Public Charter School in Baltimore, Maryland, and contributes a monthly news story about education for the Today show.”