THE ZERO RESIGNATION CHALLENGE

To understand how TTP’s Jack Kelly used precisely the right word to describe Zero’s policy towards Iran, and indeed the entire Zero Presidency – obscene-you should read this horrific eyewitness description of the mullah regime butchery that took place yesterday (6/24).

The vice-president of my bank here in DC is Iranian.  We have had a running debate about Zero for at least a year because he’s a total Zero-worshipper – but he’s my friend so we keep it polite.

I paid him a visit today to notarize some papers, and we discussed what was happening in Iran.  He looked me in the eye and said, "Jack, I have to admit – your were right about Obama.  He is an enemy of freedom."

There are millions upon millions of Americans, native born and naturalized, that are coming to the same conclusion – and their numbers are growing by the day.  The time has come to issue the Zero Resignation Challenge.

The Half-Full Report of last March 6^th proposed renaming Zero "Richard Obama" – suggesting that he will suffer the same fate as Richard Nixon.

Zero is neither Nixon, who had a conscience and sense of guilt causing him to resign, nor is he a sociopath like Clinton incapable of shame.  He is a narcissist. 

This is why he is so upset and disappointed by the Iranian protests.  His game plan was to execute a "Grand Bargain" between the US and Mullah Iran, for him to heroically engineer a peace worth a Nobel Peace Prize.

It’s all about him.  He doesn’t care about you, me, America, freedom in Iran, anybody’s freedom.  Whatever the issue is, if it’s not about him, he’s not interested.  Courageous people can get slaughtered in the streets of Tehran, but if they are not inspired by him, he could care less.

It’s beginning to dawn on Americans that just as Zero could care less about Iranians, he could care less about them and their country.

As most anyone who’s been a pop idol bitterly knows, you can go from a hero to a bum in a public picosecond.  When this happens to Zero, when he goes from being worshipped to being reviled and ridiculed, his ego is going to disintegrate.  He is going to psychologically implode.

And he won’t have his media hagiographers to prop him up.

The annoyance and contempt shown by reporters at Zero’s press conference Tuesday (6/23) was overt.  It wasn’t just Fox’s Major Garrett asking "What took you so long?"  It was the planted questions and smart-aleck answers.  It was so bad the Washington Post’s hyper-lib Dana Milbank ridiculed it as "The Obama Show."

ABC’s infomercial for ObamaCare went so badly last night (6/24) that it had to admit Zero "struggled to explain" his program and "refused" to answer critical questions.  It was a boring "presidential filibuster" that hardly anybody watched.

The "mainstream media" has had a juvenile infatuation with Zero, but such teenage tempestuousness never lasts for long, especially when its idol has feet of such incompetent and cowardly clay.

The coming divorce between Zero and his media lovers will be ugly, love and kisses turned into the hate and recriminations you see on Divorce Court.

With another massive increase in unemployment announced today (6/25), the consequences of neither Zero nor a single one of his advisors having an ounce of business experience is dawning on investors and the public at large.  Nothing he is doing is for the purpose of creating economic growth.  Everything is for the purpose of stifling it.

Which is why Zero’s job approval numbers will keep heading downhill along with the economy.  This is a doomed presidency.

So doomed that I think the issue is not whether he will be re-elected in 2012 but whether he will run at all – like Lyndon Johnson who overwhelmingly defeated Barry Goldwater in 1964, and had become so overwhelmingly unpopular that he didn’t run for re-election in 1968. 

So doomed that I think the odds are growing that he may not only refuse to run in 2012 but resign in mid-office.  The operative word is "may."  I am not making a prediction.  I am saying this is an increasing possibility, and enough of one now to hold a contest.

The rules of the Zero Resignation Challenge are simple.  Contestants guess when by date – month, day, year – Zero resigns the presidency.  The winner – he/she who comes closest to the actual resignation date – gets a lifetime free subscription to To The Point.

Plus I’ll take them (and their significant other) to dinner at one of Washington’s best restaurants.  If DC is too far away, as I buzz around the US a fair bit, we’ll work something out in their area.

So – do you accept the challenge?  If so, send your best guess to [email protected].

Before you do, be sure and consider the variables.  A big one is the outcome of the 2010 elections.  The results in the 1966 mid-terms, for example, did Lyndon in.  After being flat on the mat with Goldwater’s defeat, the Pubs’ death rattle was being heard by every pundit in the country.  Sound familiar?

Two years later, they won 3 Senate & 40 House seats. (Oh, and Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.) When they took office in January 1967, they stopped more Great Society legislation in its tracks and Johnson’s poll numbers were in the toilet – 16% approval.   

Johnson bulldogged ahead, but as he began losing primaries in early ’68 he saw no chance in November, so at the end of March he made a straightforward political calculation and said adios.

A win of 40 seats – very doable – would give the Pubs a House majority for the 112^th Congress (current lineup: 256D, 178R, 1 vacant).  While the Senate is harder – a flip of 11 seats is needed – the odds are high that Dems will lose several seats at a minimum.

(One example:  Harry Reid is toast.  He’s less popular at 34% than Nevada’s other senator, the Priapic Idiot John Ensign, collapsed now from 53% to 39%.)

The odds are that the 2010 mid-terms will be seen as a massive rejection of the Zero presidency, with scores of Dems running away from him to preserve their political lives.

But Johnson made a cold calculation based on political reality.  Zero will make a psychological decision based on his emotions.  He will not be able to cope with a public that despises rather than adores him.  The fragility of his narcissistic ego is the issue, not politics.

When his ego cracks is the biggest variable of all.  It may never.  But the odds are growing that it will at some point.

And even if it does, that doesn’t mean he’ll have Nixon’s decency to resign.  He may morph into a Hugo Chavez and try to keep power by any means.  In that case, it’s good to know that Congress can force a president to resign without going through impeachment.

It’s ironic that the 25^th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified during Johnson’s presidency, in 1967.  I’d like you to read Section 4 carefully:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.

These words may be describing the fate of the 44^th president.

When something is fragile, it doesn’t slowly come apart at the seams.  It disintegrates suddenly.  It shatters and quickly.  There may be warning signs over months.  There may not be, coming overnight. 

My guess is the latter – but when is anybody’s guess.  I hope yours wins.  Let us know what yours is at [email protected].