And he had more political capital than any incoming president ever.
He came right out of the gate with rabid leftist proposals, the crowning jewel of them being that awful porkulus bill.
He showed the American people right away that he blatantly lied to them in his campaign. He lied more blatantly than any other candidate has ever done and he continues to lie while blinded by his own arrogance.
This has got to backfire on the Dems. It's got to.
That's the stuff! Reagan was optimistic amid the carnage of 1964, and I'm staying optimistic today. Why? Liberalism just doesn't work and the Messiah's programs won't work. I was amazed the Republicans, and some Dems, united against Porkulus. They didn't even pick off McCain, the mother of all compromisers.
The American people put up with nine years of Roosevelt doing nothing to get the economy out of depression, passively accepting it was all Hoover's fault. But we have a vastly different and less patient country today. The economy will be the Messiah's Iraq.