Politico: So far, Obama’s failing miserably
So far, he’s failing miserably. Consider the following:
• Cap-and-trade legislation had to limp over the finish line in the House of Representatives with the help of a few moderate Republicans, who then caught holy unshirted hell from their constituents. Environmental legislation generally has taken a drubbing in public opinion polls when people consider how costly it is.
• The Employee Free Choice Act may be stripped of its “card check” provision in the Senate, which would effectively do away with secret ballots for unionization elections. Even in its watered-down form — which still includes highly objectionable, mandatory, binding so-called gunpoint arbitration and makes no concessions to employers who don’t want to have to prop up teetering union pensions — it might not pass the Senate. And the leadership of the House has refused to touch it until the other chamber has made up its mind.
• On health care, forget the rage set off by private citizen Sarah Palin tweeting about “death panels.” Forget the misleading talk about whether there will be a “public option.” (The ever-evolving plan is one giant public option, folks.) Forget the angry voters who crowded into the town halls during the August recess. Forget that a number of Democratic senators and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are still not willing to sign on to a bill. Right now, even after Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress last week, it’s possible Democrats don’t even have the votes in the House — where they currently enjoy a 77-seat majority.
It’s entirely possible — nay, likely — that Obama will lose on all three big issues. He’ll probably take that personally. As he has pushed for the passage of his reforms, his public approval ratings have taken a beating, and voters have started to trust the Republicans more than his party on a host of issues.
The question that most political handicappers are considering right now is not “Will Republicans make gains at the midterm elections?” but “How large will those gains be?”
September 15, 2009 - 08:55 AM on September 15th, 2009
Except to his most fervent zealots, the unraveling of the Nobama “hope and change” fraud, the unmasking, started when he pushed the porkulus plan through under the dire emergency conditions of the time. In the process he broke fundamental campaign “change” promises (end earmarks, corruption, lobbyists, special interests) in spectacular fashion. As time went on it became clearer that the only ones who benefitted were the fatcats (who are again getting their multimillion dollar bonuses) while the promised recovery is nowhere in sight.
Except to the true kool aid drinkers, the mask is off, the honeymoon is over, and it is incrrasingly obvious this guy’s so far in over his head all he can do is read the teleprompter. He does what the puppeteers who put him in office want; the only initiative he has is to skim off taxpayer $ for his cronies at ACORN and even that is beginning to be a huge liability for him.
He may be the earliest de facto lame duck POTUS in history.
September 15, 2009 - 09:44 AM on September 15th, 2009
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