The breathtaking arrogance of President Obama, frequently found crouching off the living room behind lace curtains, was on chest-pounding display in his gimmick-strangled, easily dissected Free the Illegal Aliens speech last evening.

The most revealing aspect of the worst 14 minutes in recent Presidential history, however, was his timing.

For precisely three reasons, his breakout speech on rescuing an unknown – he has no way of knowing – number of illegals was scheduled for a fortnight after Election Day:

• He and his counselors had known for months he would be creamed in the election. Had he delivered his sui generis immigration manifesto in August, September or October, the hysteria from the left and the right would have been prematurely buried on Nov. 4 by the voters’ overwhelming rejection of him, his policies, his allies.
• Had he given his immigration speech before the election, the large choir of Democrats swept out of office by voters, would have convened swiftly and staged a scalping party in the Oval Office.
• Finally, it is not to be noised around that had Mr. Obama delivered his I Have an Illegal Alien speech months ago, perhaps Labor Day, its effectiveness would have been obliterated as much as the man himself was by voters. Anticipating the near-record spanking the President absorbed, his advisors said he needed a major post-election policy address to brace his limping image and demonstrate he had wiped away all of the wounds and bleeding from his voter-beating.

Marshalling every dust-laden cliché a junior high speech student would deploy, the clearly weakened President had to demonstrate he was his old self-infatuated self.

Fittingly after the speech, Mr. Obama flew off to Las Vegas to bask in the cheers of illegal aliens.

Two years ago September when he famously lied about his role in the Benghazi massacre, to protect his election chances, he also flew off to Las Vegas that night for a round of fundraisers. Whatta guy.

When a culturally loyal, non-religious orator such as Mr. Obama quotes “Scripture,” of all sources, and lays out a glittering necklace of easily disproven claims in his favorite display case, reach for your wallet and send for a fresh supply of truth serum. The patient is coughing again.

The line of the night came from radio commentator Hugh Hewitt:

After watching Mr. Obama clumsily shred the law of the land with a high-tech lawnmower, Mr. Hewitt, former Constitutional law professor, said hereafter his course will be known as the Constitutional Suggestions.