Posted on 01/23/2010 8:31:00 AM PST by Kaslin
More than anything else, it was the foolishness of the far left that harpooned Martha Coakley in Massachusetts. Independents broke big for Scott Brown, and his own internal polling showed that national security issues like civilian trials for al-Qaida thugs and the president's seemingly soft approach on terrorism in general helped Brown to a smashing victory.
President Obama, of course, is a big loser along with Coakley. His trip to Massachusetts last Sunday was gutsy, but foolish in hindsight. Voters in a very liberal state simply rejected his request to elect another liberal. The president lost face and power and has to know it.
Now, Obamacare is in great jeopardy, cap and trade is dead, tax increases will not happen and liberal policies across the board are on the run. All of this is the fault of the far left, a group led by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and a number of radical journalists. Brown should send these people fruit baskets.
As Obama acknowledged on Wednesday, the same voter dissatisfaction that swept him into office gave Brown a Senate seat. But why are voters so disenchanted after only one year of the Obama administration? The short answer is: ideology.
With the exception of Afghanistan and firing drones at terrorists, Obama has governed far to the left. He is allowing the Democratic Congress to spend a record amount of money, and that may lead the USA into bankruptcy. He is trying to engineer a government takeover of the health care industry. He is affording heinous terrorists captured overseas full constitutional rights. He is attempting to tax corporations and wealthy Americans any way he can.
In addition, he entertains uber-left guys like George Soros at the White House. He gives radical unions like the SEIU tax breaks while most other unions don't get them. He fails to criticize Pelosi and Reid when they hide their health care negotiations from C-SPAN, even though candidate Obama openly promised such negotiations would be public. If this isn't far-left governance, I'm Hugo Chavez.
And do you know what? Independent-minded Americans don't like it.
Just look at the polls. Twenty percent of Americans describe themselves as liberal. So you figure the far left is less than half of that. In addition, radical-left media outlets like MSNBC and Air America are failing. Yeah, Al Franken won in Minnesota, but that was an anomaly. Today, he'd lose big.
If Obama wants to avoid the fate of Jimmy Carter, he must move quickly to the center. He must get tougher on terrorism, rethink the health care deal so Americans can understand it, and stimulate the economy with targeted tax cuts, not massive government spending.
With his power waning quickly, Obama has no time to lose.
i hope the left is done. cross my fingers.....
Obama makes a trip to NV to stump for Reid.....kiss of death if the last three elections are any indicator....keep up the good work Zer0....don’t change a goddam thing...
“The Far Left Down for the Count”
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And...we have 0’pinhead’s word for that....
Wow, the language man.
They have the University’s and the media. They are not down by any means. We can never let up.
BOR = Ted Baxter
I see this morning that “the one” has pledged to work “even harder” to pass his obamacare. He ain’t dead yet folks.
Yes, I hope he does work harder on this. It has held him in good stead so far. By next year, he’ll be in the 20s as far as approval ratings to and he’ll have a brand new House and Senate to languish under....keep your fingers crossed.
What does it take to wake him up? The people don’t want his 0bama care. They don’t want Pelosi’s and dingy Harry’s either
Brilliant analysis, idiot.
Hard to believe that after witnessing 50 years of non-stop incremental liberalism, despite monumental setbacks and outright rejection from the populace, that nimrods like this can proclaim the leftists/socialists are “down for the count”. Like the Black Night in Monty Python’s Holy Grail movie, the socialists are too arrogant, egootistical, and convinced of their superiority, that they will never concede defeat.
With that said, I’m happy to see that the communist-loving, power hungry lunatics are currently hopping around on only two legs right now, but they will soon get around to kicking us in the backside as they always do...
Concur—this is a temporary setback for them only. Unfortunately, they have a number of major tends, including demographics, on their side. Honestly, I am a diehard conservative, but am under no illusion that Leftist control is just a matter of time.
I AGREE.
The 10% or so of uber-liberals will NEVER give up until they die chewing on pine bark. If you have ever talked with one, it quickly becomes obvious that their brains have rotted and have become incapable of absorbing any logical arguements contrary to the drivel firmly ingrained in their medula oblongata.
Plenty of moderate liberal/progressives are going independent as the lunacy of this administration becomes more apparent. But you will never be rid of the nut balls.
The right has their share of bozos too but no one believes they will vaporize. Best we can do is throw a blanket over the raging socialists and keep them and their ideas contained.
Dittos.
And he seems to be getting dumber with each passing day.
THEY MAY be DOWN....but don’t count them OUT.....KEEP FIGHTING!
“...I hope the left is done. cross my fingers...”
Most respectfully; If we don’t remember who the left is they will take another form and metastasize once again.
They are always the same, yet always different. They hide behind compassion, love and utopia for mankind yet bring he&& to earth whenever they succeed.
My fingers are crossed also. I hope they never get near the levers of power again for at least ten generations and that people visit the library on a regular basis in order to know who these revolutionaries are.
IMHO
Best Regards.
Here's hoping for a single term Senator Franken.
The far left is never down and out they are like all reptiles just hiding under the nearest rock waiting until they heal their wounds, replenish their coffers, recruit more students. They will use this time to retool their message, giving the electorate exactly what they think they want, so that they can try again.
They know that they can’t be honest with the public because the public hates everything they stand for, so they just regurgitate what they think the public wants to here.
If you want to know how they operate, look at any mail, email or phone scam that is run. The left and any scammer have the same things in common, they will say or do anything to get your money.
As usual, Bill O’Reilly does not get it. We do understand Obamacare, that’s the problem. Making Obamacare more simple is not going to fix it. Obama portrayed himself as a community organizer, but what he really is, is nothing but a union organizer. Obama’s goal is to unionize a large segment of the population under the control of the federal goverment and give those government unions special benefits and control of the economy, creating a permanent voting block for the Democrat party.
It’s never done...the price of liberty is ETERNAL vigilance.
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