Pollak: Obama Is Partly Why Republicans Have a Fighting Chance on Tuesday

breitbart ^ | JOEL B. POLLAK

[davikkm]

President Barack Obama will return to Chicago this weekend to hold a get-out-the-vote rally. Ironically, he is one reason Republicans have a fighting chance to retain a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday. That is because in 2010, Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — over the objections of the majority of the voting public, and without a single Republican vote.

The ensuing backlash saw Nancy Pelosi booted out of the Speaker’s chair, and also lifted hundreds of Republicans into state legislative seats. The following year, Republicans largely controlled the re-drawing of congressional districts after the 2010 Census.

Democrats complained about gerrymandering — but they did the same in the legislatures they controlled, using new boundaries to pick off most of the members of the Tea Party freshman class of congressmen in Illinois, for example.

In retrospect, it was a profound strategic miscalculation by Obama, whose political skill was widely admired after the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama enjoyed such popularity and support from the media that all he needed to do after being elected after the financial crash was allow the economy to repair itself.

Instead, he and his party exploited the crisis to enact laws and regulations that massively expanded the power of the federal government.

One reason they did so was best articulated by Obama’s first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, who said in November 2008: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”

Few of Obama’s policies would have passed under normal circumstances. The Great Recession and the “hope and change” victory created a unique opportunity for the left to push its utopian vision of universal health care — which, they hoped, would open the door to other radical changes.

[davikkm]

Former butthead, not POTUS. No longer has that title and never really did.

[golux]

I, personally, was thrilled to have a black president. It didn't even bother me that he was a homosexual. Heck, when it was clear he could only produce a fraudulent COLB and never an original long-form birth certificate, I let it go. I was only really bothered by the whole anti-America, anti-Israel, one-world-government, the Constitution is outmoded thing. Michelle said it best when she said she was first proud of her country... When her husband was elected President. That was creepy. So... I read her Princeton senior thesis, and I learned what it was all about for these cats.

[Alberta's Child]

I’m no fan of Obama but this piece is unduly harsh in its criticism of him. That jug-dared nitwit had no agenda at all after he was elected in 2008. He simply became a lap dog for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and signed whatever they put on his desk.

[bigbob]

The new Obama is noting like the old Obama (except for still being full of shit up to his eyebrows). The old arrogance is gone, now he’s hard-selling, begging almost, stammering to find the words. No more imperious stares, now he slumps and looks old enough to be the old Barack’s dad.

[Parley Baer]

Now it is a fighting chance? What about the blue wave?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Turning the good old U.S. of A. into a socialist paradise WAS NOT an agenda?

Wow.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

[butlerweave]

Drugs ,drugs and more drugs

[roadcat]

Former butthead, not POTUS.

Obama, the Big "O", as in "Oh crap, why did we elect him!".

The Oddball, we're so Over him, so Obsolete, an Oinking Ogre,, a bad Ominous Octopus with tentacles tearing things apart, his policies reeking of Offal, an Oderous miscreant butthead. Lots of titles, none good, never presidential. Good riddance.

[Alberta's Child]

Obama had no agenda. He has an IQ of about 85 and probably hasn’t had a coherent idea in his life.

[DesScorp]

Fighting chance? We’re going to kick their ass Tuesday.

[Jonty30]

Don’t forget Hillary.

They are the Republican dynamic duo.

[VikingMom]

“The new Obama is noting like the old Obama...”

Years of drug abuse and all the resultant illnesses will do that to a person!

[VikingMom]

“Drugs ,drugs and more drugs...”

Bingo!! Not sure if he has Hepatitis, or worse, but he is NOT a well man!

[GoldenPup]

Obama Is Partly Why Republicans Have a Fighting Chance on Tuesday.

Thanks for the help, Dumbo. If you had been even half competent instead of the blithering horse’s ass you are, it would have made the Repubs job much harder. Keep blathering, ass hole.

[AlaskaErik]

So he’s going to hold a get-out-the-vote rally in the city that votes early and votes often and never votes Republican. Let him waste his time preaching to the choir.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

We have MORE than a fighting chance on Tuesday, because of our excellent president, Donald J. Trump.

[hal ogen]

nobama is The Greatest Fraud Ever. Hopefully, he will experiece prison.

[mosesdapoet]

While an Illinois US Senator he and his buddy Billy Ayers managed to get control of disbursing funds out of the Annenberg foundation where they proceeded to imbue socialism into the Chicago Public School system.