Posted on 08/17/2009 11:15:52 AM PDT by Steelfish
What Went Wrong
Piling up debt, gaffes, and hypocrisy, Obama & Co. are sinking.
By Victor Davis Hanson
We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. President Obama’s popularity has plummeted to 50 percent and lower in some polls, while the public expresses even less confidence in the Democratic-led Congress and the direction of the country at large.
Yet, just eight months ago, liberals were talking in Rovian style about a new generation to come of progressive politics — and the end of both the Republican party and the legacy of Reaganism itself. Barack Obama was to be the new FDR and his radical agenda an even better New Deal.
What happened, other than the usual hubris of the party in power?
First, voters had legitimate worries about health care, global warming, immigration, energy, and inefficient government. But it turns out that they are more anxious about the new radical remedies than the old nagging problems.
They wanted federal support for wind and solar, but not at the expense of neglecting new sources of gas, oil, coal, and nuclear power. They were worried about high-cost health care, the uninsured, redundant procedures, and tort reform, but not ready for socialized medicine.
They wanted better government, not bigger, DMV-style government. There is a growing realization that Obama enticed voters last summer with the flashy lure of discontent.
But now that they are hooked, he is reeling them in to an entirely different — and, for many a frightening — agenda. Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had.
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The left’s entire ideology is based on lies about reality.
That house of cards cannot stand up when exposed to the light of truth.
RE :”Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had.’
This is re-occurring. The liberal messiah is turned on when he cant deliver what he has promised., predictable. He assumed the gullibility would last much longer.
The lefts’ legislative guns are quite intact, and the Senate Dems are planning to change Senate Rules to allow passage of the Healthcare Bill with 50 votes instead of 60...can this be stopped?
Carter Administration Version 2.0
except that the ACORN/Anarchist/Revolutionary crowd was not prepared to take to the streets in defense of Jimmah. In Barack’s case, I have the feeling they just may be.
Not even close. What we have now is far worse.
If they use chicanery to pass this bill, then they will be voted out en masse. The anger is palpable. The new congress will be charged with undoing and fixing the mess. The president will spend the last two years essentially under house arrest.
Nothing could be that bad.
” If they use chicanery to pass this bill, then they will be voted out en masse. “
Perhaps even be subject to a highly informal recall process....
“There is a growing realization that Obama enticed voters last summer with the flashy lure of discontent.”
“Alinsky’s goal was to slowly turn the United States into a Communist dictatorship; to this end he tried to convince various groups of poor people and labor unions to push for legislation in that direction; he did this by appealing to their self-interest — whether valid or not — instead of using charismatic leadership — but now we have Obama, who is skilled in the Alinsky method and charismatic.”
I agree with you.
Carter was a liberal numbskull.
Baraq is a socialist operative.
He assumed the gullibility would last forever.
He believes his own lies.
Election 2008 has been brought home to rue.
Like Clinton, Obama would be way better off with a Republican congress. That would keep his proposals moderate enough to actually be feasible and he could endlessly play the hero fighting big bad conservatives and corporate interests. The Dem congress is a chaotic, overreaching nightmare and it tells you something when the roughest, toughest political rangler around (Rahm Emmanuel) could not keep them in line.
What went wrong is...we elected a sham.
Hope & Change was all he had going and the fools fell for it. Well, you can’t fool all the people all the time.
Nothing went wrong. 0bama and his regime are nothing more nor less than power-hungry Chicago-way thugs lusting to control every aspect of American life, because they are so smugly superior than anyone else.
What went *right* was that they ran a very competent campaign and the GOP ran a slug who ran a sub-slug campaign.
I don’t see the mystery. There is nothing at all about 0bama that wasn’t known in advance of the elections. The only two surprises as far as I’m concerned are: 1: just how far and how fast his regime would attempt to drag the nation into a synthetic leftist utopian dungheap. 2: How utterly corrupt and eager to destroy the US the Congress is. I knew they were jerks, but I hardly imagined they were the zealous traitors.
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