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What Went Wrong: Piling Up Debt, Gaffes, and Hypocrisy, Obama & Co. Are Sinking.
National Review ^ | August 17, 2009

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Iron Munro

nice toon


21 posted on 08/17/2009 11:55:26 AM PDT by GeronL (bookmark my new FR back-up site - http://unitedcitizen.proboards.com)
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To: Iron Munro

Best pic post of the day!


22 posted on 08/17/2009 11:56:27 AM PDT by Steelfish
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To: MrB

The left’s entire ideology is based on lies about reality.


I was making much the same point to a group of people yesterday. I called it the Rolling Stone worldview - based on a reality you get from smoking dope, listening to music and reading Rolling Stone magazine. Save the planet, make nice to people so they won’t be mean to us, get rid of oil in favor of windmills and solar panels, free health care for all, no more poor people, dialog on race, etc. etc.

Makes perfect sense.

If you’ve just smoked some killer weed, and are listening to Bob Marley.

If you’re in the work-a-day world trying to eke out a living?

Um, not so much.


23 posted on 08/17/2009 11:59:18 AM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: Steelfish

>>Nothing is worse for a president than a growing belief among the public that it has been had.<<

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The public is starting to realize that Obama is an enigma. We do not know who he is, where he comes from and what he stands for. Anyone unwilling to identify himself properly cannot be trusted.

If the country doesn’t know who occupies the WH, the next logical question should be whether he has America’s welfare or destruction in mind.

It’s incomprehensible how Congress is unwilling to discover who this mysterious person in the WH really is.


24 posted on 08/17/2009 11:59:28 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Steelfish
Just the beginning of the Camel-Lot Years.


25 posted on 08/17/2009 12:07:11 PM PDT by Reeses (The fundamental obession of leftists is size envy.)
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To: Steelfish

VDH does a masterful job with his 10 point argument.


26 posted on 08/17/2009 12:07:24 PM PDT by moodyskeptic (the counterculture votes R)
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To: GeronL; Steelfish

Too bad it’s not just a joke.

Wait until the bill for this failed racial experiment really hits the workers and taxpayers.


27 posted on 08/17/2009 12:10:23 PM PDT by Iron Munro (America's awkward stage: too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards)
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To: nascarnation
Baraq is a socialist operative"

Dig the "Q" - think I'll start using it.

28 posted on 08/17/2009 12:10:25 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: DuncanWaring

RE :”He believes his own lies.”

Before the election it was all about ‘making things better’ hope and change. After the election it was all about ‘keeping things from getting much much worse’(so they would still get worse) . Hope replaced by hopelessness.

He knew it was all BS. But he believed the media and the polls that said we worshiped him no matter what. More funny, the liberals believed they had their Reagan.


29 posted on 08/17/2009 12:11:49 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: Steelfish; All
Obama's CHICKENZZZZZZZZ.............

COMING HOME............

to ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa............

30 posted on 08/17/2009 12:12:21 PM PDT by Beloved Levinite (I have a new name for the occupier of The Oval Office: KING FRAUD! (pronounced King "Faa-raud"))
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To: Beloved Levinite

And His Holiness, the Very Revered Wright would say “I did prophesize this. Didn’t I?”


31 posted on 08/17/2009 12:15:56 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Buckeye McFrog
In Barack’s case, I have the feeling they just may be.

In that case, as Americans, riflemen and patriots, we're all-in. With a winning hand.

32 posted on 08/17/2009 12:35:37 PM PDT by Noumenon (Work that AQT - turn ammunition into skill. No tyrant can maintain a 300 yard perimeter forever.)
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BTTT!!!!


33 posted on 08/17/2009 12:43:39 PM PDT by SW6906 (6 things you can't have too much of: sex, money, firewood, horsepower, guns and ammunition.)
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To: sickoflibs
The liberal messiah is turned on when he cant deliver what he has promised.,...

Like peasants in a Frankenstein movie!

34 posted on 08/17/2009 12:54:33 PM PDT by nina0113
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To: buccaneer81; nascarnation
Not even close. What we have now is far worse.

Hamilton Jordan was no Rham Emmanuel. The good news? Robert Gibbs is a Jody Powell.

35 posted on 08/17/2009 12:59:20 PM PDT by Free State Four
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To: Steelfish

That’s a darn good read. VDH is awesome as usual.


36 posted on 08/17/2009 1:14:41 PM PDT by GOP_Muzik (If all the world's a stage then I want different lighting)
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To: Callahan

This is exactly why we DON”T want a Pubbie House or Senate elected in 2010. Just a few to keep the margins down so nothing horrid can pass. Then in 2012 go for broke!


37 posted on 08/17/2009 1:28:31 PM PDT by bombthrower
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To: Steelfish

bump


38 posted on 08/17/2009 7:25:29 PM PDT by Christian4Bush ("A community organizer can't start bitching when communities organize." - Rush, 8/5/09)
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To: Steelfish

Steelfish, I honestly searched the title and got no hits. Only after clicking on one of the tags someone added to my post did I find out you already posted this article. I’m sorry and wouldn’t blame you for getting the moderator to shut down my post. Should have known VDH would have been posted already.


39 posted on 08/17/2009 7:48:32 PM PDT by Delacon ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." H. L. Mencken)
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To: Delacon

Not to worry. I have no problem with multiple posts- the more exposure the better.


40 posted on 08/17/2009 8:51:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
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