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The Grey Lady Abandons Obama
Truth Revolt ^
| 11/15/2013
| Elisha Krauss
Posted on 11/15/2013 3:23:21 AM PST by markomalley
You know things are going south for President Obama when one of the cornerstones of his adoring mainstream media starts to question his signature healthcare plan.
As Breitbart reports, NY Times writer Michael Shear says in a write-up today that Obama has lost the trust of Americans, and his failed Obamacare rollout is his "Katrina" moment.
Shear writes,
Barack Obama won the presidency by exploiting a political environment that devoured George W. Bush in a second term plagued by sinking credibility, failed legislative battles, fractured world relations and revolts inside his own party.
Mr. Obama is now threatened by a similar toxic mix. The disastrous rollout of his health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but has also raised questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency.
Since he cannot blame the failure of the Affordable Care Act on President George W. Bush, President Obama has consistently pointed to Romneycare as an excuse. Most in the media have followed the White House talking points trying to compare Romneycare to Obamacare, I guess Shear did not get the memo.
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Not quite as optimistic as Elisha, but I do have a bowl of popcorn handy...
To: markomalley
Obama isn’t running for re-election. What difference does any of this make?
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:27:33 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(I don't think so, but I doubt it.)
To: jmacusa
Well the Democrats and half the Republicans sat in their seats and let him go, so maybe people will try some Tea Party candidates next election,
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:31:23 AM PST
by
Venturer
(Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
To: jmacusa
Well, many Dems will be running, and Obama has completely steam-rollered them because there has been no opposition at all within his own party so they are identified with him. The fact that he acts entirely through executive orders and doesn’t even let the Dem legislators legislate must be a little galling to them, overall, combined with the fact that he then blames them for his bad moves.
That said, I’m not even sure the voting public will remember this next year. They will just accept the chaos and misery as one more thing brought to them by the Glorious Leader who knows best, and vote Dem as usual.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:35:12 AM PST
by
livius
To: Venturer
Ted Cruz did the correct thing getting out front of Obamacare, so he and those who coalesce around him are the only ones who don’t get the blame. The RINOs should get what they deserve for their duplicity....using anti-Obamacare as a campaign issue but behind closed doors working to make it happen.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:35:15 AM PST
by
grania
To: markomalley
...has also raised questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency.The key difference, of course, is that Bush wasn't responsible for the damage Katrina caused.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:38:48 AM PST
by
NJRighty
("It's sick out there and getting sicker" - Bob Grant)
To: markomalley
Saying this is Obama's Katrina moment is like comparing stage 4 cancer to a sniffle.
Katrina was nothing but a successful effort by Dem's to coverup their incompetence and corruption at the city and state level.
Since the Dem's portray Katrina as something less than Bush's worst screwup, they can still say hussein isn't as bad as Bush,
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:39:04 AM PST
by
fso301
To: markomalley
Mr. Obama is now threatened by a similar toxic mix. The disastrous rollout of his health care law not only threatens the rest of his agenda but has also raised questions about his competence in the same way that the Bush administration's botched response to Hurricane Katrina undermined any semblance of Republican efficiency.This ENTIRE TOME could have been written without mentioning Bush at all. NYT is hopelessly f-ed.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:39:34 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: markomalley
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:40:15 AM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: fso301
The mayor was a coward and the governor was a drunk.
To: markomalley
Since he cannot blame the failure of the Affordable Care Act on President George W. Bush, President Obama has consistently pointed to Romneycare as an excuse. Most in the media have followed the White House talking points trying to compare Romneycare to Obamacare, I guess Shear did not get the memo. Romney's Fault???
Really????
I mean, REALLY??????
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:45:24 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: markomalley
If true, probably only because he cant run for a third term. They havent abandoned other democrats that will take his place in the future even if they make the same promises obama did.
To: markomalley
Wow I always find such enlighten news out of the NYT. I never realized that hurricane Katrina was a law that Bus pushed through in the middle of the night, signed then spent millions to advertize and was caught by the damage it caused. Was it called the ANA or Affordable New Orleans Act?
I must be a low informational voter who thought Katrina was a natural disaster made worse by state and local democratic officials incompetence and greed only to be saved by Bush.
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posted on
11/15/2013 3:58:40 AM PST
by
shoff
(Vote Democratic it beats thinking!)
To: NJRighty
"Bush wasn't responsible for the damage Katrina caused."
Bush was all over the approaching storm, telling people to get out of the way and pleading with the idiot Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to let FEMA in to get pre-positioned.
1. The idiot mayor of New Orleans, Nagin did nothing.
2. Blanco would not permit the Fed Gov in.
The traitorous media tried to hit Bush on this and in large measure succeded.
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posted on
11/15/2013 4:00:44 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: markomalley
Liberals vote. Conservatives have better things to do.
To: central_va
As I recall the divisions under Bush began because those taxed enough already hated the Bank bailout, and the immigration bill. Things just escalated under Obama and now it’s clear who in the Republican Party stands for us and who stands for us only during campaigns and fundraising.
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posted on
11/15/2013 4:08:08 AM PST
by
samsmom
To: markomalley
Dear New Orleans: Please apologize to the nation for building your city in a bowl next to the Gulf of Mexico.
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posted on
11/15/2013 4:12:20 AM PST
by
InvisibleChurch
(http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
To: markomalley
To: fso301
That’s exactly right, and there’s another difference.
This disaster is entirely of Obama’s own making. His administration was blindsided - not by an actual hurricane - but by their own legislation.
To: Lazamataz
This is the beginning of the end for Obama. Its not the end—but the beginning of a long death sprial that will see him crash and burn. Watch as new scandals emerge and new corruption surfaces? The sad truth is—Obama doesn’t know how badly he is hurt. He still thinks the people love him and he’s one good speach away from high approval ratings. It must be someone elses fault—Fox News, Tea Party, Ted Cruz, GOP? anyone but his own. I predict dark times coming for him—I do not see him finishing out his term of office.
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