Pssst.
Republicans. Come on over here. Even you Tea Party folks, come here. I want to let you in on a little secret. Here you go:
This President is perfectly capable of failing on his own.
He does not need your help.
In fact, every time you try to push him down, you instead prop him up.
As we head into the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles historic concert tour of North America next year, you should take a cue from one of their better known tunes: “Let it Be.”
In times of trouble, let it be. Let it be. Let it be. Let it be.
No more hearings.
No more Government shut downs.
No more threats. No more theater.
The Affordable Care Act? What you like to call “ObamaCare?” Guess what? It was ALWAYS going to be a disaster - particularly in its early days. You actually got that right. The Administration knew that too. Why do you think they kept pushing statutory deadlines back?
Now we are seeing what you have been telling us. But you know what? We would have seen it a month earlier if you had not shut the government down. This disaster started from Day One: October 1st. But no one noticed because they were too busy talking about the shut down and wondering whether we would default on our debt. I am not just guessing about that. The Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for October out on November 1st showed that “More than four in ten (44 percent) say they have followed the fight over the federal government shutdown and raising the debt ceiling “very closely,” while half that many (22 percent) say they’ve paid close attention to news about the website problems with the insurance exchanges.”
So now let it be. Let it run its course. When a reporter asks you a question or sticks a microphone in your face to get comment on the many failings of the current Administration simply say, “Yes, I think that is a problem. If the President needs our help on this, we are here for him.” Then shut up.
And do the same thing on Syria. On the new revelations about Benghazi. On NSA spying. On drone strikes. On unfair IRS scrutiny. Let it be. Let the aggrieved parties make their case. Not you.
No one likes a player who piles on. The loudest gasps from a crowd at a football game come when the quarterback is hit after he throws the ball or a runner is tackled after he goes out of bounds.
Without you as a foil, this President is helpless. He has nowhere to go.
Let it be.