Posted on 01/24/2010 8:05:38 AM PST by sickoflibs
Waking up a Year Later with Everything turned Upside down.
You almost have to feel sorry for the liberals. A year ago Obama had a 60% approval rating, Democrats were trusted more than Republicans on almost all issues and they had a huge democrat majority in congress. Yet now they must wake up each morning knowing it's all been lost, and wondering how it happened. To most liberals it all went bad this past week. They were sure that Martha Coakley would pull it out in the Massachusetts Senate race over Scott Brown. They were sure that some sort of health reform plan would pass shortly after that. But Tuesday night their hopes that elected democrats led by Obama would pull through were crushed. And frustrated liberals/progressives blame the Democrat leadership including Obama for swinging to the right contrary to most voters opinion.
Ted Kennedy's Dream becomes liberal's (and Obama's) worst Nightmare
Tuesday night, the day before the one year anniversary of Obama being sworn in as president, Democrats lost the Ted Kennedy Massachusetts senate seat in a special election. This was after president Obama flew up the Sunday before election day to campaign for her. And the main issue that Republican Scott Brown ran on was stopping Obama-care(as well as other Obama initiatives), something Obama never mentioned in his speech. This was the big story all over the country even before the election. Elected Democrats all over the country were asked by the media (that biased MSM) : "What went wrong?". The day after the Massachusetts election loss, President Obama gave a press conference where he explained that the problem was that he had not spent enough time 'educating' the American people on why they were wrong about their (Democrat's) accomplishments.
Government takeover of Health care : The end of a Dream
The election loss came at a time when the White House was trying to broker a deal between the House and Senate; each of which passed completely different health reform bills. In reality this was a near impossible job even with the 60 vote majority in the Senate. But to the liberal masses and most others(except me), passage of a health reform bill was inevitable. After all, Obama , Pelosi and Reid told us over and over it was going to happen. But the election loss changed all that. Not only did Senate democrats loose their 60 seat filibuster majority, but now scores of democrats in congress were terrified of losing their seats in the coming 2010 midterm elections. The Obama-democratic dream of creating a new entitlement died Tuesday night. To democrats and many others, the MA election ended it all.
In spite of the death of the dream, House liberals, who played a large part in the health reform passage failure by demanding a government funded public option; are still talking about passing the House bill in the Senate (51 votes) using Senate budget reconciliation rules. This is something they talked about since July 2009 and it never was possible because Budget Reconciliation applies only to changing existing funding levels or existing taxes of provisions in a passed bill, not adding regulations or new programs. Basically, they can't admit 'The Dream' is over. (I call this 'The prayer for the Dead'.)
One group you could pity is those Democrats in congress who voted for a bill because they were promised over and over that the 'final' health reform bill would fix any problems in either of the two passed bills. They wasted ten months and had to stomach other states getting embarrassing bribes their states didn't, defended secret closed door meetings, unpopular mandates, tea party protests, angry town hall meetings and voters at home; and then after finally passing two bills with passage seeming so close to many, they watched it die in front of their eyes. Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson and his wife were chased out of a local pizza restaurant by Nebraska voters over anger for his support.
Losing a lone liberal Voice too?
One would think that this was enough for democrats to have to face in a single week. But the same (this past) week Air America closed up shop being out of money and funding. Their gravy train was G.W. Bush and he was out of office a year leaving little enthusiasm for Obama cheerleader.
Government versus Free Speech : A win for Free Speech terrifies liberals
Something else happened this week that got the liberals in a tizzy. The Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations and unions running ads against elected politicians and candidates was constitutionally protected speech. While this was seen as a free speech victory by republicans, liberals saw this decision as the end of the country. On MSNBC, liberal talk radio (still a few stations out there) and libs blogs it was reported over and over that those rich evil corporations that Obama has been bravely fighting would take complete control of our elected officials (like the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers) and that our democracy has ended. Apparently we are all mindless drones that believe anything we see in a commercial. What these left wing talkers neglected to tell their audiences was these unconstitutional federal regulations were regulating OUR speech against politicians, as well as businesses and unions. But what is really killing democrats about this decision is that their whole populist theme blaming businesses for the countries problems, and threatening taxes and takeovers, companies can now run ads against them in the November elections. These are the same elections that they were expected a backlash against elected Democrats.
Imagine the pain that Liberals must feel now
Yes, a year ago Democrats thought they would re-invent the country, and exactly a year later they woke up in hell with it all slipping out of their fingers. Today, pat a liberal on the back and say : "Better luck next time". And then have a good laugh. Because it is just going to get much worse for them.
Yesterday you could tell his moral was broken but he didn’t want to talk about it. But unlike when Bush was in charge: he said he didn’t know about events on every news program like the Nelson or union bribes to pass the health bill. He said he was too busy to keep track of what democrats were doing. He also said that everyone passes bills with bribes, and Obama tried to pass the health reform bill honestly, but it didn’t work. And the president was not responsible for anything bad his administration did anymore (unlike Bush). He told me that Obama was not responsible at all for the health care bribes to Senators. And it wasn’t Obama that read the Christmas Day terrorist his Miranda rights, that was his attorney general (even though it was a major Obama promise) . Obama was not responsible for his attorney general keeping his unpopular promises or the final deals in the health reform deal, even when he demanded “Get something-anything to my desk to sign” .
I wish I knew he would use this logic when he bashed Bush all those years. Bush didn’t invade Iraq , it was the military. And the CIA told them to do it not Bush. And I should have said I was too busy to pay attention to all those negative news stories during Bush years. The president doesn't control things.
Ironically, this lib hated Hannity for his knee-jerk defense of Bush and is doing the same for Obama.
Democrats in pain ping!
This episode is one at-bat in a long baseball game that the libs are winning. We can celebrate them wiffing (I’d argue we haven’t even gotten to strike 3 yet), but if you check the scoreboard, they aren’t doing so bad. Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, etc. The national government is not restrained.
This is SO delicious. Can you imagine the ads that oil companies could run? Or insurance companies? Or pharmaceuticals? Liberal have to be petrified. What they've essentially been doing is taunting, teasing, and denigrating an 8 foot tall, 500 pound man made of pure muscle...while he's been tied up. Now he's loose.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the liberals.”
Ha, not a chance in hell!!
The Libs are a long way from stopping with their agenda. These people are bent on destroying our economy along with our personal liberty and will not stop until they are thrown out of office.
Don’t ever expect a liberal to be even-handed.
When Harry Reid was found to have made a racial comment, he was not treated the same as the Republican Majority Leader who complimented an old man on his birthday.
We were given all sorts of convoluted reasoning for this, but we all know it is a liberal double-standard.
The same was true of the Clinton era where malfeasance was dismissed and sex with interns became a “personal matter”.
Liberals have boxed themselves into a hypocritical corner and they know it. They are just too committed to the cause to stop themselves from doing it over and over again.
For liberals, the ends justify the means.
I decided early on not to flood this ping list with health reform pings. But it's been my favorite subject since the stimulus recovery bill and been posting on many threads. And it was a massive redistribution bill(s).
This is post here in my most fun topic, watch democrats self destruct.
“You almost have to feel sorry for the liberals.”
Ha, not a chance in hell!!
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Hell NO! No mercy whatsoever!
Nope!
They made their beds. Now let them lie in them...
“Democrats in pain ping!”
They do not have a clue either, like a bewildered wild animal will start biting their own back side.
My wife works with a doctor who is a far left wing loon(liberal would be too conservative of a label for this guy). She ran into him yesterday and he was acting as if he’d had a death in the family. He said he was “disappointed in his president” and “unhappy with the world in general”.
I can’t imagine what it must be like to where your personal well being is dependent upon politicians and events in DC... It must suck to be these people, even during the best of times. As much as I may dislike what is happening with our society, I’m not going to go around and be personally down about it.
Thought you might enjoy this ping!!!
It took the MSM and the dims 8 years (with a lot of help from Bush and the rinos) to convince voters they were wrong about the Republicans and not even a year of obama, Reid and Pelousy to show voters the truth about the dims.
Liberals are never happy, period.
It can be seen in its full glory over at DU, Moveon.org, Daily KOS, Huffpost or just by watching MSNBC.
The problem with that ‘scoreboard' is that the Republican Rarty has been on the same side as liberals on that war. I have a separate redistribution ping list that addresses that but it is non-partision. Expansion of entitlements (prescription drugs) was a accomplishment of the great conservative experiment: president GWB and republican congress. “Conservatives will give up their entitlements to save the country, when liberals give up transportation and electric to save the planet” (someone pinged me with this)
The point of this post is that the Obama revolution, which we were warned (even here) over and over would takeover everything, has been is morally wounded and November is the bullet in the head.
This is the result of liberals, progressives and socialists complete being and faith being in government.
Their church is the Democratic party and their sacraments are anything that by effect of passage destroys freedom in the guise of compassion and fairness.
It’s no wonder they’re so miserable when the population up and revolts once a generation and sends their hopes and dreams back to academia and think tanks. Their church and faith has been mocked and destroyed and they know nothing but enslaving their fellow man.
“Yesterday you could tell his moral was broken but he didn’t want to talk about it”
And yet, you have the other idiots out there still shouting “O-bam-A!, O-Bam-A!”, and then bitching in the next breath about why they can’t get a job.
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