Oh, Barack Obama the Republican Party just cant quit you
Even in their supposed moment of triumph, right-wingers can't shake their dark obsession with Barack Obama
Gary Legum
Depending on what day it was during Barack Obama’s presidency, Republicans would tell you that Obama was either an incompetent weakling who never accomplished anything or a diabolical, power-mad dictator who used the instruments of government to harass and persecute conservatives. Either way, one would think the right would be happy to have the terrible boy-king out of power and out of their lives.
Alas, no. Conservatives cannot seem to let go of some of their old beefs with Obama. Combined with their usual paranoia about liberals, has led to the numerous prominent right-wingers accusing the former president of somehow being “still in control” of the federal government.
Talk radio host Hugh Hewitt, among others, has accused Obama of leaving behind “sleeper cells” throughout the government, small groups of loyalists determined to hurt the Trump presidency. Now, it’s common enough for an outgoing administration to make political appointments into permanent jobs and leave these bureaucrats sprinkled throughout the government. There is even a term for it – “burrowing.” The Bush-Cheney administration, for example, made no secret of its efforts in this area.
When it comes to Obama, however, it is not enough to say his administration engaged in this practice. On the right, burrowing has been transformed into a malicious conspiracy, with Obama cast as a ruthless puppet-master who, frustrated that his efforts to hurt Trump last fall were not enough to keep him from winning the election, is now directing a resistance movement of federal bureaucrats to destroy the sentient racist carrot’s presidency from the inside.
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/10/oh-barack-obama-the-republican-party-just-cannot-quit-you/
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I hadn't thought about that, but you could be spot on. 