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Is it possible that Obama’s arrogance, personal pettiness, sanctimoniousness  and egotism (for starters) could finally be his unraveling? Even the liberal  media are starting to notice, but will it last?

Up to this point, they’ve dutifully played along with his Alinskyite tactics  – converting the office of the presidency into a headquarters for community  organizing at a federal level and a position to organize and fund a perpetual  campaign against his political opponents instead of governing.

But perhaps his willingness to hurt the country to make political points,  which until recently they’d overlooked, has finally gotten their attention –  with his brazen lies about the sequester cuts and his release of dangerous  criminal illegals onto the streets. I’ll not be Pollyannaish in hoping for a  sustained liberal-media blowback toward Obama, but these matters have at least  caught their attention and inched ever so slightly forward from the back burner.  That’s something to build on.

<snip>y from his re-election and from a string of triumphs in his negotiations  with Republicans, Obama calculated he could continue to be as dictatorial and  unreasonable as he had been and even ratchet it up a notch and get away with it.  He knew he was lying when he said Republicans were currently causing the  sequestration because they wouldn’t agree to more tax increases. He was the one  primarily responsible for the impasse because he had already gotten his tax  increases and was still refusing to play ball on the spending and entitlements  side – the only side that can make a difference in solving our debt crisis – as  he always has.

The media didn’t call him on that, as flagrantly dishonest as it was. Why  should they have? They rarely had before, and they support his quest to punish  the successful. Loyalty to the truth hasn’t been enough to motivate them to  behave like true journalists and just report the news fairly.

But we saw a hint of media dissatisfaction with Obama when reporter Chuck  Todd criticized Obama for “ceding the moral high ground” concerning the corrupt  influence of money in politics because his campaign arm, Organizing for Action,  has been “selling access to the president.”

Then veteran reporter Bob Woodward came forward to expose a second category  of lies from Obama on the sequestration. Even if some in the liberal media  turned on their former Watergate-famed icon, at least others called White House  press secretary Jay Carney’s hand over this.

It was now obvious that Obama was lying not just about the primary reasons  for the gridlock over the sequester cuts but about who authored the idea in the  first place. After Obama blatantly lied about this and sent out his minions to  do the same, the administration had to grudgingly concede that it had been his  idea. Even then, the administration tried to spin its way out of it by  misrepresenting that Republicans had agreed to revenue hikes as part of the  sequestration.

But amazingly, the spin doesn’t seem to be getting much traction for Obama  for a change. Perhaps it is because Obama went too far when, like a petulant  child, he showed he was willing to hurt the nation to get his way on the  sequestration and further damage Republicans.

He went way over the top, even for him, in his promises of gloom and doom  concerning essential services he falsely claimed would be cut. Education  Secretary Arne Duncan incorrectly claimed that schoolteachers were already being  laid off, which even the Washington Post wouldn’t let stand. Other liberal  outlets came forward to contradict Obama’s hysterical claim over pay cuts on  Capitol Hill. Even “Saturday Night Live” lampooned Obama’s absurd posturing on  the sequester cuts.

Journalist Byron York reported that Obama now seems “resigned to the  possibility that he cannot win the further tax increases he seeks, and that  after enlisting his entire administration in a campaign to frighten Americans  about sequestration, the cuts have become a reality that he has to acknowledge.”  Obama has now admitted that the cuts aren’t going to be apocalyptic as he  warned.

Obama has outdone himself with his administration’s unilateral release of  thousands of dangerous criminal illegal immigrants onto the streets of America  in order to leverage his sequester arguments and then sending Carney out to  grossly misrepresent the scope of this outrage.

I won’t hold my breath for a wholesale transformation of the liberal media’s  attitude toward Obama, but I’m encouraged to see anything at all in that  direction and that the political winds seem to be changing, even if slightly so  far, against Obama.