Posted on 01/23/2010 5:05:57 PM PST by smoothsailing
January 23, 2010
By Bryan Fischer
There is virtually unanimous agreement that President Obama is toast. Mort Zuckerman says the air is out of the balloon, and even Der Spiegel is saying that, for German commentators, the hope is gone. In my judgment, Obama is now a lame duck president with 75% of his first (and only) term remaining.
ObamaCare, his signature issue, is dead in the water and Democrats are floating belly up right next to it. Think Corzine, Deeds, Coakley, Dodd, Dorgan, Snyder, Nelson, Lincoln, etc. etc.
If the Democrats do not insist that Obama resign from office — politically unlikely to be sure — they are liable to be dessicated, withered and powerless by 2012. His coattails are just long enough to drag them all under unless they detach themselves immediately if not sooner.
The natives are restless. If I've observed any one thing over time in politics, it's that the only thing that matters to 95% of politicians is getting re-elected. They will sell their soul to anyone who will ensure re-election and abandon any principle and any friend who serves as a drag on their electoral hopes.
The president is now dead weight, an albatross around the neck of every Democrat member of the House and the Senate. They simply cannot afford to be linked to him anymore. He is blindly pursuing policies that the great majority of Americans flatly reject, and yet he soldiers on, oblivious, perhaps through sheer hubris, to the fact that voters aren't buying the swill he is trying to sell as champagne. Congressional Democrats have got to get as far away from him as they can, and they will. Sheer self-interest will dictate separation.
Obama is a disastrous 0-5 on the campaign trail, in his first year after an inauguration attended by unmatched euphoria and expectation. Few in political history, apart from appalling scandal, have fallen so far so fast. He is the Tiger Woods of the political world. He got hosed in Copenhagen, trying the bag the Olympics for Chicago. He got hosed again in Copenhagen, trying to impose economy-destroying carbon caps on the entire world.
And he got hosed in New Jersey, Virginia and Massachusetts when he tried to lend his now vanished charisma to troubled candidates. He's now preparing to make it 0-6 by going to Nevada to prop up the dismal fortunes of the thoroughly unappealing Harry Reid.
Congressional Democrats now can safely ignore their own president, and in fact must do so to preserve any chance of survival. Dick Morris is surely correct when he says that the president will never be able to pass a significant piece of legislation ever again. The American people are watching, they know he cannot be trusted, and they will beat the daylights out of any politician who supports his disastrous agenda.
He has grossly misread the American public, perhaps again because in his insular and self-adulating world he believes he is the smartest person in the room and is sure that his brilliance will inevitably be recognized by the great unwashed. Ain't gonna happen. The American people are a lot smarter than he thinks, maybe even smarter than he is, and surely wiser when it comes to politics. They will never trust him again about anything.
The president is catastrophically weak and naive when it comes to our war against Islamofascism. He is indifferent, desultory, casual, and lacking in seriousness regarding the threat. The American people know this. He waited three days to say anything at all about the Tighty-Whitey Bomber of Christmas Day, his Pentagon whitewashed completely the jihadist attack on Ft. Hood by refusing to use either the word "Islam" or "Muslim" anywhere in its 86-page report, and he nominated a manifestly unqualified man (Erroll Southers) to head the TSA.
If there is another successful Islamic attack on the United States, and a planeload of innocent Americans gets blown up, I believe that will be the last straw for this vain and incompetent president. The American people will hound him out of office. He won't be able to show his face in public because the reaction will be so visceral and angry. He will become as isolated as Dick Nixon became in his last days in office.
He'll crank up the Oval Office thermostat to 72 degrees and hunker down in an effort to ride out the storm.
Hillary Clinton is of course watching, and I have been predicting for months now that she will launch a primary challenge to Obama in 2012. Rush Limbaugh said much the same thing this past week. The campaign of 2012 is her last realistic shot, and she is shrewd enough to see that he is finished as a politician and she'll just be too old in 2016.
Surely the Democrats in the party will see the same thing, and know that if they back Obama in 2012 they will be backing a loser. Believe me, there will be an underground movement among Democrats to plead with Hillary (or somebody) to save what shreds will remain of their party from The One in the next presidential election.
President Obama has no chance at a second term. And eroding chances of completing his first one.
© Bryan Fischer
“Few in political history, apart from appalling scandal, have fallen so far so fast. He is the Tiger Woods of the political world.”
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Absolutely. Obozo, Cheetah Woods and Orenthal James Simpson will go down in history as three of a kind.
Correct. And in those documentaries they'll FINALLY do their job and vet this man. But they'll try to make it sound like they just found out and weren't complicit in this con.
You got a better chance of getting some Obama stash!
That's Rassmussen yesterday, right?
He was showing 24% strongly approve today, with 43% strongly disapprove.
His total approval was 44%, it amazes me that it's that high.
And which group did they sample for this poll--those who think that President Obama is toast? I would bet that at least 40% of voters still think he's the best thing since sliced bread, toasted or not.
i agree....even though there has been “silly” farce elections before, like a mayor or Governor (Ventura-Minnesota), i nebver thought i’d see this kinda thing at the Presidential level...it’s still very disturbing that this punk-kid got elected. Troubling...
3 threads in less than 24 hrs on his (or lack of) mental health and the possibility that he may have to resign do to mental health issues.
Also adding to the list of Senators, looks like a fine young lad is running against Barbara Mulkulski..
Anything is possible...
It would be nice to think this and that it’s all over.
Have a little Schaudenfreude a little while.
Don’t drop your guard on anything. They are still trying to go after banks and now Frank wants to kill off Fannie and Freddie and make a whole new govt-run home lending entity. They are far from over, they will get meaner and fight harder.
Then we keep fighting and fighting whatever they are trying to do, and boot many of their asses out of Congress this November. Our goals should be to stop all socialist bills and bills destroying the private sector/nationalizing any more of the private sector, and the second goal is to get as many conservatives into vulnerable dem seats as possible, with the intent to gain a majority in the House.
Very true. Complacency is dangerous.
The war against liberalism is never won. Just one battle at a time to stem the rising tide of socialism.
LOL I’ve never seen a ROFL COPTER before.
I don't know if Hill could have been a better president than obama. Look at her now, she's aged at least three decades and this is only the first year.
A President should be someone who has served in the military. Someone who will protect our borders and instill fear to our enemies just by the mention of his name.
As a female, I will not vote for another female. Something weird happens to women in politics the higher the position is. They should be locked up.
Sounds delightful.
Yep, see post#44 above.
No way he resigns. Only way for the dems to get rid of him relatively quickly is to get his birth certificate out in public.
Awfully early to be making that kind of call, however prescient the author turns out to be.
Let us not lose sight of the fact that there is one hell of a lot of damage a desperate Dhimmie Congress can and will do between now and the time they are voted out of office. Don’t forget that the Congress is about to approve yet another increase in the debt limit to $14.2 Trillion Dollars. (That is One Hundred Forty Two Thousand Billion Dollars by the way...). That is so much money it is difficult to conceive, and it is far from the last time they raise that ceiling, especially with unemployment set to explode again now that Christmas is past. Tax revenues of all descriptions are in the toilet, and I see no hope of paying back the money our government has borrowed.
In one year’s time Premier Hussien and Pelosi’s Politburo have almost run the US Dollar into the dumper, and if the Dollar collapses like some are predicting it might, it could be a decade before we have a serious presidential race in the country again. I don’t think most people understand just how much real peril The Union is in right now.
When the rest of the world finally gets fed up enough with Obama’s arrogant cluelessness and the fiscally irresponsible spending and borrowing habits of the US Gubment, and finally shuts off the money tap, we will be so far in the weeds we’ll be trading .22 rounds for squirrel meat and .45 rounds for eggs before its all said and done.
You're kidding. Right?
When illegals are granted amnesty, and ACORN gets cranked up again, it is the Republican party that's shot to hell.
Lesson #2...?
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