Posted on 09/11/2011 8:11:38 PM PDT by neverdem
“I’D rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” President Obama confessed to ABC News’ Diane Sawyer last year. Other than the “really good” part, Republicans would be happy to see this wish fulfilled...
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But passing a lot of bills and achieving military victories is not enough. Making them stick is the trick. As the political scientist Eric M. Patashnik of the University of Virginia has shown in his revealing book, “Reforms at Risk,” the fate of policy reforms is heavily dependent on what happens after laws pass. This is especially true for one-term presidents, who usually fail to build political coalitions that can survive longer than they can. President Obama must amass some political capital to protect these programs, or he risks losing everything for himself and for his party. He can’t govern based on the assumption that he will have more time to repair things.
Since the 2010 midterm elections, Mr. Obama has governed from such a defensive position that he risks undercutting those gains. The president has to make sure that his embrace of deficit reduction through spending cuts does not jeopardize his health care reform. He must also make politically difficult choices, like following through on his promise to push for an end to the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, even if his close advisers fear that such a stand will blow up in their faces...
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In the coming debates over spending cuts, President Obama has to find the fortitude to outline the terms of the debate. He needs to keep his eye on what he did in 2009 and 2010, and not just what will happen in 2012. Otherwise, he risks ending up with the worst of both worlds: a weak one-term record and a loss in 2012.
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No chance for either of those. Futility reigns.
Yeah, well, blacks in this country subtlely threatened to burn this country if he didn’t get hired in 2008 so I frankly think that blacks are as much to blame as any white leftist. The original Affirmative Action president and he brought all of this on himself and blacks played as much a part in intimidating other whites into hiring him as well.
Being a one term president should be the last of his worries; he should worry more about getting out of the country with his family alive.
The “really good” would have been nice. As it is we have had a disaster all of the way.
Chances are, that if Obama is ‘rehired,’ then after the next four years, there will be such a strong republic that no one will ever be able to topple it. With an even worse economy under him during a second term, there won’t be a limosine liberal left in this nation because even they will be affected in one way or another. Race riots won’t keep Obama in office, in fact it would expedite his being thrown out all the sooner.
At some point, the deterioration of America culture will have to be explained in order to explain how he became president in the first place.
At some point, the deterioration of America culture will have to be ADDRESSED in order to explain how he became president in the first place.
Many of Barry’s initiatives can’t be taken back or undone—Porkulus, Cash-for-Clunkers, the siezure of auto company bondholders’ rights, etc..
But the sooner Obamacare is overturned, the less toxic the legacy that One-Term Barry will be leaving behind.
He does have those to really bludgeon his opponents, but that only works, really, to a certain point. There is no way that US troops will fire on fellow civilians just to enable him to maintain his hold on power. There is the rest of those offices you mentioned, but there is no way that it owuld be possible to browbeat the US into submission to vote for him. If he tried to arrest troops for not following orders to shoot US citizenry, there would be a huge revolt, just you wait. The treasury will revolt at him trying to pull anything, same with the Justice Dept. These people after all have families and neighbors they have to face. Obama will be kicked out, even if the entire Marine Corps has to frogmarch him and his odious family out.
Why do you have so little faith in our troops?
Yeah, definately that too.
His prayers have been answered, we are just waiting for the history to be written.
Even with liberals writing most of the text, it will still be barack vs jimah.
Obama is a one termer. Perry , Mitt , Bachmann , Cain , Paul , Gingrich. Any of them can beat him.
That was my tagline for a good while during the run up to the election.
(Obama: Carter’s only chance to avoid going down in history as the worst U.S. president ever.)
You know how you often need to add a sarcasm tag to lines that should never need them were you talking to people who had any sense? Well, consider your powerful single line panning of the book, and by inference, this dolt NYSlimes writer for leaning on it for support, as if you were speaking to a room that knows no history. (I'm not sure even an explicit Jimmy Carter tag would help this one).
Thanks for the ping!
I hope it’s Perry, I really do; the rest need to get more experience and get more of an understanding as to how this country works. Right now, we need a governor from Texas.
Nov 5, 2010 4:26pm
Murdoch: Mayor Bloomberg Called President Obama the Most “Arrogant” Man He Ever Met
You may recall that during President Obama’s vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, on August 27 he took in a round of golf at the Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, playing golf with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Democratic lawyer, business man and éminence grise Vernon Jordan; and White House trip director (and former golf pro) Marvin Nicholson.
The pool report at the time said that “We are told Bloomberg and Obama talked in the clubhouse for about 15 mins about the economy. They then went to the driving range.”
Apparently – at least from a second-hand report – the Obama-Bloomberg convo could have gone better.
In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch says ”Bloomberg said it was a pleasant day. In conversation he put a few ideas … He said it was like verbal ping pong.”
Bloomberg, according to Murdoch, “came back and said ‘I never met in my life such an arrogant man’.”
A spokesman for Bloomberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Murdoch – the Australian-born founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of News Corporation, which owns conservative media outlets ranging from Fox News Channel to the New York Post – is described by The Age as saying in the interview that President Obama “might make great speeches but doesn’t get things done and doesn’t listen to anybody.”
Earlier this year, News Corporation gave $1 million to the Republican Governors Association as well as $1 million to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which largely worked to elect Republicans in the 2010 midterm elections.
The interview was first picked up in the U.S. by The Politico’s Ben Smith.
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