Posted on 01/08/2010 6:01:38 AM PST by libstripper
Passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catastrophic victory. If it is voted through in time for the State of the Union Address, as President Obama hopes, half the chamber will rise to their feet and cheer. They will be cheering their own demise.
If health care does not pass, it will also be a disaster, but only for the administration, not the country. Critics will say, "You didn't even waste our time successfully."
What a blunder this thing has been, win or lose, what a miscalculation on the part of the president. The administration misjudged the mood and the moment. Mr. Obama ran, won, was sworn in and began his work under the spirit of 2008—expansive, part dreamy and part hubristic. But as soon as he was inaugurated ,the president ran into the spirit of 2009—more dug in, more anxious, more bottom-line—and didn't notice. At the exact moment the public was announcing it worried about jobs first and debt and deficits second, the administration decided to devote its first year to health care, which no one was talking about. The great recession changed everything, but not right away.
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Another “moderate” RINO suddenly “getting religion”.
These people are about as reliable as spit.
Agreed....Johnny “Come Lately”. And ONLY NOW is OBAMA “getting it”? What is that about?
It's only a blunder if looked at from the perspective that Obama wants what is best for America. If seen correctly as an attempt to grease the skids to future tyranny by creating a huge new unconstitutional role for the Federal government, regardless of what happens to today's crop of political actors in the short run, then everything that has been done makes perfect sense.
The political careers of Obama and his party's Senators are small sacrifices to achieve a greater long-term goal.
0bama and his entire regime seem to think that they know what’s best for us, despite our protestations. That may be true for the ACORN element of the population, but they will find out that the rest of us do not take kindly to dictatorial tactics!
You've got it and it deserves repeating.
At what point will the Dim-Bulb Dems realize that Obozo (Muzzie Commie-in-Chief) intends to destroy the United States of America and Capitalism in the West. That includes them. They simply do not understand the consequences of their actions. Their existence is dependent on the survival of the nation. Useful Idiots never get it.
You nailed it far more accurately than I.
Except some of my spelling wasn’t too good; it’s still early in the morning.
Hitler came to power with the help of the Brown Shirts, homosexual thugs who actually led “Crystal Night” vandalism of Jewish shops. Hitler then crushed the Brown Shirts, when he rose to power and no longer needed them.
The Communist North Vietnam did not, always, treat their “Comrades” in South Vietnam very well. After the US Congress lost the War in Vietnam by refusing to fight it -— and by refusing to help South Vietnam fight it -— the North no longer needed its “friends” in the South, and ruled the South with an Iron Fist, usually using NVA and North Vietnamese officials for every important post in the South, for several years after the fall of Saigon.
Obama is a Statist.
When the State runs EVERYTHING, why on Earth does the State want troublesome interest groups around, to complain about how the State is doing things?
Precisely right. Sure the Dems may be out of power for 5, 10 or 20 years. But as another generational change occurs, the nation will settle in and live with a monstrous and tyrannical health care system that will completely bankrupt the country. It happened with the New Deal. It happened again with the Great Society. And it will happen once more with the Obamanation. By the 100th anniversary of the New Deal, we will complete slaves to a tyrannical government.
Yep, Useful Idiots and Intellectuals are the first to go. No longer serve a purpose.
Peggy Nooner is the ball-less David Brooks. Both should be banished from the Right!
“Both should be banished from the Right!”
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Never thought of her as Right. Just another pundit. But your observations are colorful, “ball-less”. I have know women who I am convinced had some, but she is not one of them.
Ugh. Please don’t give Swoonin’ any hits!!
If Mr. Obama is extremely lucky—and we're not sure he's a lucky man anymore—he will get a Republican Congress in 2010, and they will do for him what Newt Gingrich did for Bill Clinton: right his ship, give him a foil, guide him while allowing him to look as if he's resisting, bend him while allowing him to look strong.***
Which gets us to the Republicans. The question isn't whether they'll win seats in the House and Senate this year, and the question isn't even how many. The question is whether the party will be worthy of victory
Insightful article.
This is the part of the article that deserves the most attention, in my view. If the Conservatives that are Republicans that we end up electing aren’t REAL, honest, and conscientious about bringing the country back to its Constitutional roots, we will end up with a repeat of the Newt “revolution” failure:
“Republican political professionals in Washington assume a coming victory. They do not see that 2010 could be a catastrophic victory for them. If they seize back power without clear purpose, if they are not serious, if they do the lazy and cynical thing by just sitting back and letting the Democrats lose, three bad things will happen. They will contribute to the air of cynicism in which our citizens marinate. Their lack of seriousness will be discerned by the Republican base [and the tea party conservatives!], whose enthusiasm and generosity will be blunted. And the Republicans themselves will be left unable to lead when their time comes, because operating cynically will allow the public to view them cynically, which will lessen the chance they will be able to do anything constructive.”
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