Posted on 03/05/2010 12:08:27 PM PST by BuckeyeTexan
There are signs that Barack Obama's fledgling administration has hit a dead end.
A growing idea has taken hold of the political intelligentsia in Washington as Barack Obama's young presidency has sunken into paralysis, only a year after he entered the White House.
On Obama's side, the frustration is palpable. His supporters argue that modern America is ungovernable because the political system has become so unwieldy it is broken.
How else, they ask, can it be explained that a president who won 53 per cent of the popular vote and helped to win big majorities for his Democratic Party in both houses of congress cannot get anything done?
It is a compelling argument, at face value.
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Pulitzer prize-winning commentator Charles Krauthammer has criticised "liberal apologists" for wrongly fingering the system to explain why the first-year agenda of a popular president has gone down in flames.
Krauthammer acknowledges that the US constitutional system is inherently incremental.
But in a scathing Washington Post column he blasted well-known opinion writers Thomas Friedman and Paul Krugman at The New York Times, dismissing as nonsense their notion that the US is ungovernable.
Similar things were said in the latter days of Jimmy Carter's one-term presidency, only for the chatter to stop when Ronald Reagan took office.
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Krauthammer's point is that leadership counts most and Obama's failing has been his inability to sell a healthcare plan to voters.
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Claims that congress is unworkable have arisen mainly because of Obama's overwhelming focus on healthcare reform during the past 12 months. Even then, Hess believes, Obama could have pushed healthcare legislation through the Senate last year if he had been more skilful.
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The rest of us fell no obligation to do so just because we got outvoted.
Krauthammer’s point is that leadership counts most and Obama’s failing has been his inability to sell a healthcare plan to voters.
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More exactly, his failure has been to sell Americans on oppressive socialism and confiscatory taxation. They don’t want it, he knows it, but does not give a flying %^&*. He wants to RULE, not govern WE THE PEOPLE.
Nowhere Man
The Beatles
He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man please listen,
You don’t know what you’re missing,
Nowhere Man,the world is at your command!
(lead guitar)
He’s as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere Man can you see me at all?
Nowhere Man, don’t worry,
Take your time, don’t hurry,
Leave it all till somebody else
lends you a hand!
Doesn’t have a point of view,
Knows not where he’s going to,
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere Man please listen,
you don’t know what you’re missing
Nowhere Man, the world is at your command!
He’s a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody!
Well said.
IMHO, quickest lame duck ever.
Now, back to the 10 - 20 percent unemployed that are losing all they own ..... because of our Kenyan Communist.
Most of them are just typical white people...
Since when is 53% some sort of massive landslide anyway? here’s a hint - it won’t be reported as such the next time a Republican gets 53%.
Uh, because 20 points of that 53% didn't know he was a Marxist, and now they know? If he'd run as a Marxist bent on destroying the private sector and socializing health care, he wouldn't be getting any push-back now because he never would have been elected in the first place.
How else, they ask, can it be explained that a president who won 53 per cent of the popular vote and helped to win big majorities for his Democratic Party in both houses of congress cannot get anything done?
It is a compelling argument, at face value.
And GW Bush won in 2000, picked up seats in 2002, with over 50% of the popular vote in 2004 and still "couldn't get it done". The Rats refused his judicial nominees.
The PUBLIC stands in opposition to Obamacare (left and right) and we are told that we must pass this and then "fix it later". NO. N-O. No.
Obama ran as a Clinton centrist in a center right nation in order to get himself elected but has governed from the far left. So yes , from the far left , America is impossible to govern. Only true center to center right coaltions can govern succesfully in the U.S.
He's flipflopping on criminal trials for terrorists and closing Gitmo and whether Iraq should be divided into 3 states. It's not "leadership" he lacks. He's flat out WRONG on issues and has to come around to how things have been done in the end. That's no leader.
Their ideas won’t stand up in an open debate. The public does not want to expand socialism.
Why lie about the agenda? Because the public rejects it.
Overly optimistic.
Healtcare will pass.
Already on deck is illegal alien amnesty with the helpof Lindsey Graham.
American is amazingly easier to govern when you are leading the people where they want to go (Reagan). It is pretty difficult to govern when you are trying to push the people where they do not want to go (Carter, 0bama). The problem is not with our form of government but rather it is with the idiots elected to lead.
Of course it just COULDN’T have anything to do with the fact that the American people finally stood up to these Communist thugs and said NO!!!
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