Posted on 08/19/2009 4:12:43 PM PDT by fiodora
And now, Mr. Obama's Orwellian health care vision is going down in a ball of flames, with Americans of every ideological stripe in revolt over some part of what's being proposed, conceded and debated.
The president's agenda is in deep trouble, and now it appears not even the silver-tongued, savvy political Merlin himself can salvage it.
It wasn't supposed to be this hard for the Democrats: With control of the White House and huge majorities in the Congress, they were supposed to blow past whatever token resistance to their plans the Republicans and others might raise and easily implement their full-tilt liberal agenda.
But something funny happened on the way to far-left governance: The American people began to reject what was about to be inflicted on them. The Democrats did not anticipate that their constituents might like a say in how they were being governed. (That whole "government for, by, and of the people" is so 18th-century.)
Mr. Obama has been particularly perplexed by the revolt against his ideas, for two main reasons:
A president is always cosseted by his staff. But as a candidate, he should have experienced the rough-and-tumble. Without it, he stands puzzled before us, mystified by our resistance, stunned by the attacks, and paralyzed by growing insecurity and disbelief.
His agenda is sinking into quicksand, and it's only a matter of time before he also grows overwhelmed and heavy from a battle to which he is unaccustomed.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Don't ya just love it?
Moncia, if you frequent Free Republic, you outdid yourself with this article! It just drips with good analysis and observation....just WOW and THANKS! (And thanks, fiodora, for the this post, would have truly hated to miss it.)
President Barack Obama's push for a national health care overhaul is providing a financial windfall in the election offseason to Democratic consulting firms that are closely connected to the president and two top advisers. Coalitions of interest groups running at least $24 million in pro-overhaul ads hired GMMB, which worked for Obama's 2008 campaign and whose partners include a top Obama campaign strategist. They also hired AKPD Message and Media, which was founded by David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama's campaign and now to the White House. AKPD did work for Obama's campaign, and Axelrod's son Michael and Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe work there.
“....just WOW and THANKS!”
Nicely put, Thanks Monica!!
(And thanks to you, REPUBLIC, it’s my pleasure!)
Anyone else notice the MSM seems to be backing away from Obama? Getting ready to say—see, I told you so—to an unbelieving audience? They are going to spin how they warned America of radical change, but no one listened. They have no choice but to spin it this way. They are in as much do-do as Obama these days, and they know it, so it CYA time with these articles.
He would probably go on national TV and ask of the attackers: "How could you do this to me?"...
No.
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Mr. Obama has been particularly perplexed by the revolt against his ideas, for two main reasons:
c First, he (like the rest of his party) misread November’s election results as a mandate to impose a far-left agenda without debate. The American people, however, still believe in the quaint idea of robust discussion before ideas are turned into law. They also make up a country that remains ideologically center-right. This week, Gallup released a poll showing that conservatives now outnumber liberals in all 50 states, and that 40 percent self-identify as conservative versus only 21 percent self-identifying as liberal.
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The second reason involves Mr. Obama’s lack of political combat experience. He has never been hit before. Until the health care blowup, none of his significant political opponents ever really landed a punch. During his early Chicago political career, he ran opponents off the ballot, but such community-organizing manipulation doesn’t translate well nationally. And now he finds himself in the presidency, never having known what it is to take a body blow.
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The end result is a president who doesn’t know how to take a political hit or repel one without resorting to desperate and shameful attacks on the opposition.
A Freeper? Quicksand mentioned on FR earlier today: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319526/posts
“the arrogance of the left” in conjunction with the pathological narcissism of the big Zero, plus the rampant corruption of his minions will sink Zero to MINUS 57...
“But as a candidate, he should have experienced the rough-and-tumble”
No way. This guy was insulated from it all by his flunkys and the media.
The guy’s toast as far as his agenda is concerned. That forced community service thing for public school students and college students will also go nowhere. People all across the spectrum are wise to him now.
That's what we get for putting a media-creation in the White House without ANY of the criteria and testing to prove he was anything more than a figment of their leftist wet dreams.
I nominate her for Worst Person in the World, unless Olby has beaten me to it.
Please...not trying to be terse here, but Obizmal misread nothing...he is under strict mandate of operation by George Soros.
Soros, financial nation killer that he is, has done the misreading this time. We are the leader of the world and he hates us for it...Thank God we were established under GOD!
“”imagine how he might react if there were another terrorist strike on the homeland...”
He will crawl back to Chicago, desperate searching for “Wright.”
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