Posted on 06/15/2009 2:01:54 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
How did Obama manage to spend all his political capital so quickly? Did it all go on the stimulus bill? Wasn’t the whole point of bringing Rahm in as chief of staff that he could work constructively with Congress to pass an ambitious agenda? And isn’t Obama himself the first president since JFK to have entered the White House from the Senate? I’m not sure when everything went wrong here, but I fear that the damage is now irreparable — and that Obama’s agenda is going to be severely scaled back as a result.
Our explanation is rather simple: Obama’s agenda was ambushed by the financial crisis, which forced him to spend the crucial early months of his presidency in pursuit of economic recovery and financial stability. It’s not a matter of spending political capital quickly so much as spending time-expiring political capital on the financial crisis. Basically, presidents only have a limited amount of time to get anything ambitious accomplished. And Obama’s time may have already run out.
As he’s fond of saying, this isn’t the presidency he asked for. He had wanted a presidency focused on spreading the wealth around rather than desperately attempting to keep our wealth from vanishing into the national money hole.
That said, Obama can still give a helluva speech. That healthcare reform thing today really was a marvelous piece of rhetoric.
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I’m still having trouble getting past the fact that he’s our President.
A lame-yet-still-dangerous-anti-American-duck.
We could only wish. There’s years of him left, and the damage will be unimaginable before it’s all over.
The old time politicians in Congress may be corrupt, but no one ever accused them of being politically naive.
They will duck for cover if zer0 ever gets nailed on his anti-American, anticaplilist ambitions.
Most Americans (when the waken from their stupor since November) will realize this is not good for them, and so Congress will not agree with zer0 and vote down his agenda.
Wishful thinking.
Answer: No, he’s not a lame duck at all. The community organizer knows when to feign weakness.
Is Obama Already a Lame Duck?
Fixed.
If it walks like a lame marxist duck, looks like a lame marxist duck, quacks like a lame marxist duck, smells like a lame marxist duck..........
Oh please, let it be so...
I'm encouraged by the talk that he lacks the support to pass socialized health care. Maybe the worst is over and America will sober up from a bad drunk.
However much it may be scaled back, it won't be enough for me.
From his pen to God's eye, may it be so.
When I watch his swagger, I swear one leg is too short!!
If it walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck it must be.........
“As he’s fond of saying, this isn’t the presidency he asked for. He had wanted a presidency focused on spreading the wealth around rather than desperately attempting to keep our wealth from vanishing into the national money hole.”
Tell me why these idiots get all upset when we call them socialists and statists.
What this economic moron does not include in his statement is that, historically, spreading does not make everyone more wealthly. Rather, it makes everyone poorer. More ‘victims’ for ‘The One’ to pray on.
Lame duck? Not at all. 60% approval rating still. How that is so, I have no idea.
That buffoon will never be my President.
I don’t believe there is any such thing as a lame duck president. They have their own powers, exclusive of the legislature, Constitutional and otherwise.
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