Posted on 08/20/2009 4:46:16 PM PDT by Signalman
It’s like déjà vu all over again,” noted philosopher Yogi Berra is credited with saying. And so it is.
A liberal Democratic president has his heart set on pushing through a proposal strongly unpopular with most Americans. Enjoying substantial Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate, he intends to win.
So it was in September, 1977 when Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal treaties to relinquish United States control. An Associated Press opinion poll conducted that month found that only 29 percent of Americans favored the pact. A solid 50 percent opposed it and 21 percent expressed no opinion.
Just as Barack Obama is determined to shove a government health care program down the throats of his protesting countrymen, Carter did what was necessary to get the Senate to ratify the Panama Canal treaties. He cajoled, he promised, he threatened. It worked.
Carter was understandably jubilant when in early 1978 he received one vote more than the 67 necessary to approve the first of the two treaties. He hailed it as “a victory for the American people.” That may sound vaguely familiar. It’s how Barack Obama described his own 2008 election.
In a 1991 interview, Jimmy Carter talked about his triumph:
“I never go through a week of my life now that I don’t get letters from people condemning the Panama Canal Treaties. Still, and this is I don’t know how many years later. 1978? Thirteen years later. But it was a good thing to do.”
He went on to describe the aftermath:
“It is the most courageous thing that the U.S. Senate ever did in its existence. They knew that it was politically unpopular, but they knew that it was right and needed.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
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Which brings us to now. Another Democratic president and another Democratic Congress don’t care that Americans oppose a government health care system disguised as reform.
With their elitist mentality, they genuinely believe they know better than we do what’s best for us. If it takes hiding from constituents, fine. If it takes lying about what their plans entail, OK. If it takes cajoling, promising, threatening, it’s just part of doing what they’ve decided is right and needed.
If the president succeeds in imposing ObamaCare, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. All those Americans held in such contempt by the liberal establishment will be at the polls next year and in 2012. They’ll remember how they were disrespected and ignored. And Obama & Co. will have no one to blame but themselves for ignoring a lesson of the Carter years.
Danger, Will Robinson!! Spin Alert!
You have to keep an eye on these MSM people all the time and maintain a very high level of suspicion when you read anything they report. Obama does not enjoy a substantial majority in both the House and the Senate. In the House, yes, but the Senate is different. He can only get something done without Republican votes if EVERY SINGLE Democrat votes with him. That is hardly a substantial majority.
I say he loses either way.
Stupid people bever learn from past (HILLARY! care) mistakes.
(Now, If I just do the same thing that failed ... only do MORE of it ... THIS time it'll work .... yup ... yoobetcha')
Good. I hope you get tons more this week and next week and and ...
Thanks Carter, you gave South America to the Chinese.
I'm an MSM person? First time I've been accused of that.
I don’t think the Panama Canal had much to do with Carter’s overwhelming defeat by Reagan. It had a lot more to do with an economy in which double digit inflation, interest rates, and unemployment were the norm. In any case, Obama is eerily similar to Carter, from his arrogance to his absolute lack of understanding of the American people (other than the far left). If his health care bill passes, he loses; if his health care bill doesn’t pass he loses.
Ditto.
So it was in September, 1977 when Jimmy Carter signed the Panama Canal treaties to relinquish United States control. An Associated Press opinion poll conducted that month found that only 29 percent of Americans favored the pact. A solid 50 percent opposed it and 21 percent expressed no opinion... He went on to describe the aftermath: "It is the most courageous thing that the U.S. Senate ever did in its existence. They knew that it was politically unpopular, but they knew that it was right and needed."The most courageous thing... yow... what a self-aggrandizing moron.
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