The USS Obama Is Taking on Water

Pajamas Media ^ | Feb. 21 | J Robert Smith

[AJKauf]

Many on the left are in denial. The USS Obama, certified as unsinkable a year ago, is taking on water in its bilges. It is starting to list portside in the dark, cold political seas — on its maiden voyage, no less.

The Obama is made of sturdy stuff, the left contends, designed by the smartest engineers. Its skeleton and hull, shaped by unbendable liberal principles. Its engines and turbines, powered by attractive government-growing, corporate-hating proposals. Its furnaces, stoked by legions of young and minority voters, hopelessly idealistic and hungry for change, and by the disaffected middle class, sick of the war on terror and disgusted by a widening income gap with the upper classes. Its watertight compartments — solid Democratic congressional majorities.

In seas thought to be smooth as glass, Captain Barack Obama and his navigators, Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid, plotted a swift course to a safe, statist harbor. Government-run health care, cap and tax, card check, a pork-laden stimulus, and re-imposition of the Fairness Doctrine, among other government-aggrandizing measures, would be achieved by voyage’s end. But the first, momentous voyage wouldn’t be the ship’s last. Not by a long shot....

[jakerobins]

The USS OBAMA has more holes than swiss cheese...And Sarah Palin is the UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN!

[cripplecreek]

That scow was never seaworthy to begin with.

[shield]

[SandRat]

[Iron Munro]

[JohnLongIsland]

[freekitty]

I wonder if our congress critters have gained or lost money?

[exnavy]

SS Minnow?

[puppypusher]

Lets fire a few political torpedoes into her and make her sink that much faster.

This man and his administration need to go.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yeah, Sarah is the wild card that threw all their calculations into disarray. They planned for all sorts of contingencies, but they never foresaw the wrath of a righteous woman coming at them!

[Windflier]

[REDWOOD99]

Wasn’t it the Captain of the Titanic who first said, “Everything’s fine. Don’t everybody go gettin’ all wee-wee’d up.”?

[dennisw]

Obama’s ship is the Good Ship Lollipop and it’s manned by gay sailors

[Vince Ferrer]

[The_Media_never_lie]

I wonder if our congress critters have gained or lost money?

You can rest assured the congress critters are making money. They can either go long or short the country, makes no difference to them as long as there are bills to write and special interest wheels to grease.

[Windflier]

"Yet now, among the president’s men and congressional Democratic leaders, among the left across the nation, among many in the fossil media, there’s denial. By the left’s lights, the unsinkable Obama can’t possibly be sinking. Evidence be damned. The Obama may have hit rough waters, it may be banged up, but it’s built to withstand the pounding, they argue. Don’t change course, the left counsels; in fact, keep tacking relentlessly left, heedless to sailing deeper into the treacherous iceberg field in which the Obama finds itself.

Even bigger icebergs lie ahead for the Obama: the November midterm elections and an economy that’s running a significant risk of tumbling into a worse recession next year. Either or both could finally send the Obama to the briny deep, perhaps before the band can strike up and the lifeboats are deployed.

Unlike the Titanic, the sinking of the Obama will be lamented by very few Americans with common sense. Some ships of the political sort are better off lost forever at the bottom of a dark sea."

I couldn't agree more with the writer's assessment of the left's denial, and what it's about to cost them. Their utopian plan is older than dirt, and the American people are rejecting it yet again.

[SkyDancer]

[Vendome]

Gilligan!!!!

[PGalt]

Wasn’t it the Captain of the Titanic who first said, “Everything’s fine. Don’t everybody go gettin’ all wee-wee’d up.”?

LOL!