Posted on 01/20/2010 3:22:03 PM PST by Solitar
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.
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Though it is a week old, the recent election of Scott Brown makes this article even more prescient and poignant.
If even more Democrats run scared, resign, or change their spots, Obama may be a lame duck already.
We already know how lame he is and if he doesn’t let go of his ego he’ll truly be a one timer.
We can HOPE!!! That was his marker, HOPE. Now WE have HOPE. HOPE that the idiot is FINISHED. We can only HOPE SO!!!!
The problem is that there are several Republicans who want to be ‘mavericks’, so they can be potential supporters of future Obama agenda items.
Would Graham and McCain oppose immigration reform? That may be the next big agenda item.
Snowe and Collins are always in the ‘unknown quantity’ column.
The Obamacare is dead, no matter how much spin Obeyme wants to..next on his agenda, is illegal alien amnesty. With the RINOS currently seated, he has a better chance of passing it than Obamacare.
The State of the Union speech should be interesting. He must be busy re-writing it now.
Three years to go.
A lot can happen in three years.
A terrible lot.
One year ago the GOP was “finished” according to the intelligentsia.
So keep the guard up.
Don’t get cocky.
Hubris gets followed by nemesis (ruin) for a reason. But that can go both ways.
Never, ever, ever, underestimate the Republican ability to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Never.
Recall how everyone lamented how Bill Clinton was still "young" when he finished his presidency, and so what was left for a brilliant politician like him to do?
That's the question to ask about Obama. When he leaves the White House at 52, what's he going to do next? Would he go back to the Senate, like how John Quincy Adams went to the House? Move out of the country to be the leader of another country?
What would be left for a "young" Obama?
-PJ
More like a cornered ‘Rat.....
The one positive thing Obama and the Dems can take from the Mass Meltdown is that expectations for their success have now been lowered so far that they can only exceed them. Any piece of crap that he shovels through congress with the help of a few RINOs will be heralded as a big comeback.
Looks to me like they've already started!
He’d make a fine President of Germany. Maybe Haiti lol. Seriously, the guy is a good speaker and faceman. He should really have been Hillary’s VP with all sorts of fun ceremonial duties and but he wanted the brass ring.
Search FR postings with the keyword “Obama lame duck” and see how far back into last year the posts go. Politics is not that simple.
“Let me be clear: I cannot already be a lame duck because global warming has killed every duck on the planet.” -BHO
He’s a lame duck as long as WE don’t let him pretend to come to center.
Hello, GOP, -click-click... damn it GOP, pick up the darn phone... hello, I know you’re there, answer me. —dial tone.
W set him up to gurantee failure.
It was payback for the Florida debacle by Gore, the purposeful disallowal of transition team by the Clinton Administration and the relentless attack by the press that actually endangered the country.
The hapless clown was doomed from day 1
He will rattle around while the country muddles through.
W bashers...GTH
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