The end of the road for Barack Obama?

The Telegraph ^ | 08 Mar 2010 | Simon Heffer

[HospiceNurse]

It is a universal political truth that administrations do not begin to fragment when things are going well: it only happens when they go badly, and those who think they know better begin to attack those who manifestly do not. The descent of Barack Obama's regime, characterised now by factionalism in the Democratic Party and talk of his being set to emulate Jimmy Carter as a one-term president, has been swift and precipitate. It was just 16 months ago that weeping men and women celebrated his victory over John McCain in the American presidential election. If they weep now, a year and six weeks into his rule, it is for different reasons.

[Vaduz]

A lot of them are showing up in Los Angeles of all places even the loon libs don’t like him.

[Brouhaha]

“Is he supposed to jump in a phone booth, peel off his suit, and fly over the city dispensing majik?”

Actually, I had always assumed that was Zero’s game plan. He sure as Hell isn’t planning on implementing sound free market economic policies.

[Arrowhead1952]

There are a lot of anti zero stickers in Austin already.

[stbdside]

The collapse of Barack Obama’s regime sounds even better.

[Vaduz]

Agree

[nina0113]

Is he supposed to jump in a phone booth, peel off his suit, and fly over the city dispensing majik?

Yes. Everything that happens, good or bad, is the president's work. He waves his magic wand and jobs appear (but you don't actually have to go to them to get the money). If the jobs are not appearing, it's because he hasn't waved his wand.

[nina0113]

I saw my first Nobama bumper sticker yesterday.

I think you can't have been looking - they're everywhere.

[GonzoGOP]

This has to be the weirdest analysis about 0bama's problems.

But it is right on the money. If people don't watch your commercials then you are in trouble. CNN is a 24/7 infomercial for the democrat party. It is the Progressive Shopping Network. So if people tune it out and prefer to watch Beck, Hanity and O'Riley then Obama is losing the battle of ideas even before it is fought.

Where this guy gets it wrong is that the triumph of Fox News over MSNBC & CNN and the victory of the WSJ over the NYT is not the cause of Obama's decline, but a symptom of it. The problem with obama isn't that people don't like the way the commercial is being present, but that having been burned by the product once, want nothing to do with what he is selling.

[backhoe]

If the jobs are not appearing, it's because he hasn't waved his wand.

I'm still waiting for my own personal Unicorn...

and my first trillion Mo'BamaBucks

[GailA]

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” ~~ President Ronald Reagan

OBAMANOMICS—TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy
Bambi doesn’t keep his promises...so buyer beware!

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

PLEASE ASK THEM TO REPEAL THE BIG NEW FEES in TRICARE for Life, the retired Military over 65 secondary health ins. which they passed in a DOD bill. They promised our Military these benefits, and our Military have earned them.

Sen Scott Brown’s number is 202-224-4543
Capitol Hill switchboard is 202-224-3121

Lots of local demwit phone numbers on this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2408217/posts

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military’s secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011 NEEDS TO BE REPEALED!
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OBAMA’s WAR ON SENIORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2433867/posts/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security, http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Health Care Rationing for Seniors Another Problem in New Obama Plan http://www.lifenews.com/bio3058.html

Medicare tax may apply to investment income (ObamaCare tax hike)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460988/posts

Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/28/obama.health.care/index.html

Will healthcare reform mean cuts in Medicare for seniors?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2009/1017/will-healthcare-reform-mean-cuts-in-medicare-for-seniors

Health Reform’s Hidden Victims Young people and seniors would pay a high price for ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203517304574306303720472842.html

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SOCIALIZED MED THREAD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466239/posts
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MILITARY & Retired MILITARY
Veterans’ G.I. Bill benefits MIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/posts
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.

[GailA]

Obamacare call list: Courtsey of TN Eagle Forum:

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[driftless2]

I wish it were true, but the fact is FOX news still only commands a tiny share of the viewing audience. It trounces all the other cable news because there’s only one FOX, only one semi-conservative outlet. FOX still lags far behind the alphabet networks in total viewers.

[ezfindit]

The wheels are completely off the wagon and the wagon is heading right over the cliff. America we TOLD YOU so!

[pabianice]

This massive state spending gives rise to accusations by Republicans, and people too angry even to be Republicans, that America is now controlled by "Leftists" and being turned into a socialist state.

"Obama's big problem," a senior Democrat told me, "is that four times as many people watch Fox News as watch CNN." The Fox network is a remarkable cultural phenomenon which almost shocks those of us from a country where a technical rule of impartiality is applied in the broadcast media. With little rest, it pours out rage 24 hours a day: its message is of the construction of the socialist state, the hijacking of America by "progressives" who now dominate institutions, the indoctrination of children, the undermining of religion and the expropriation of public money for these nefarious projects. The public loves it, and it is manifestly stirring up political activism against Mr Obama, and also against those in the Republican Party who are not deemed conservatives. However, it is arguable whether the now-reorganising Right is half as effective in its assault on the President as some of Mr Obama's own party are.

I love how he claims to be impartial in his analysis. He's just one more hate-blinded, Marxist, pantywaist.

[paudio]

IMO, comparing FNC v. CNN is grossly misleading. It should be FNC v. everybody else in the ‘business’. Looking this way, 24/7 media drools over zero, complaining that FNC is watched more than CNN is BS.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"Is he supposed to jump in a phone booth, peel off his suit, and fly over the city dispensing majik?"

Yes, and when President Bush didn't do that the day after Hurricane Katrina, it just proved that he hated black people. BTW, I am a "survivor" of Katrina, but I don't live in New Oreans and I'm not black. I guess Biloxi, Gulfport and the rest of the Mississippi Coast, being a mostly white enclave, didn't fit in with the meme the media was going for, even though the hurricane actually hit us.

[backhoe]

Yes, and when President Bush didn't do that the day after Hurricane Katrina, it just proved that he hated black people. BTW, I am a "survivor" of Katrina, but I don't live in New Oreans and I'm not black. I guess Biloxi, Gulfport and the rest of the Mississippi Coast, being a mostly white enclave, didn't fit in with the meme the media was going for, even though the hurricane actually hit us.

You are absolutely right on both counts.

A common discussion around here right after Katrina was the ceaseless hammering President Bush got, and how our "friends" on the Left seemed to think the President was some bizarre mixture of Superman and episodes of "The West Wing." That he just had to fly over, do the right thing ( whatever the Hell that was ) and all things would be well again.

It had slipped my attention that you had been through Katrina- sorry to hear that. The Atlantic Ocean is visible from our rooftop here, and we really don't enjoy each hurricane season.

A number of Freepers in areas hit by Katrina noted at the time how little attention was paid to the devastation of their communities, and how they got back on their feet on their own.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

And in regard to his fellow politician....and Obama's Climate Change campaign:

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Weekly Standard has a great article coming in the March 25 issue....the cover:

FR Thread:

In Denial ( The meltdown of the climate campaign. )

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Regarding the Global Cap and Trade plans....

Related thread...:

IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds

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Resource....Click on the graphic:

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The Globalist can see that their prince ....OBAMA is not going to deliver for them.....

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !