Is The Ground Shifting Under Barack Obama?
Mark Tapscott believes it already has. His column is a roundup of things that indicate Obama is beginning to slip, hard and fast.
* Obama remains personally popular with the public, but worries and even outright opposition to some of his cornerstone proposals are growing. Democrats in Congress are even beginning to express in public print their worries that Obama has reached too far with the $787 billion economic stimulus package, the $410 billion omnibus spending bill and the $3.6 trillion budget proposal (and the trillions more senior aides whisper are coming in further bailouts, loan guarantees, “tax cuts” that are really just grants, and other spending accountrements (sic) of Leviathan Unleashed.)
* Paralleling these developments, a potentially devastatng (sic) conservative case against Obama is coming together rapidly. Two influential columns this week tell the tale: On Thursday, Daniel Henninger offers this crucial observation in a WSJ piece otherwise devoted to asking why Republicans aren’t more eagerly and quickly taking advantage of the fact the Obama Democrats have all but declared war on the 75 percent of the U.S. economy that is private and therefore productive of the nation’s wealth:
“Beyond the stock market, there is a reason why, despite much goodwill toward his presidency, the Obama response to the faltering economy has left many feeling undone. There isn’t much in his plan to stir the national soul. It’s about ’sacrifice’ now so that we can live for a future of small electric cars and windmills. This may move the Democratic Party’s faith communities, but it cannot revive a great nation. If the Democrats want to embrace market failure as a basis for their ideology, let them have it. As politics, it’s a downer.”
It is a huge roundup of items, you’ll have to read it all. I’ve never been an Obama supporter, obviously, mostly because I saw someone far, far to the left for this country. I don’t believe in statism, Obama obviously does. Congress and the White House have been on an unprecedented spending spree for the past month. And they are plotting even more spending at a pace never seen in America. Who is going to pay for all this?
You and I. Not the rich, not the corporations. You and I, the regular people of this country and our children and grandchildren. We are the ones being victimized in the name of advancing a statist agenda.
Via Memeorandum
By Mwalimu Daudi, March 7, 2009 @ 11:34 am
If the Democrats want to embrace market failure as a basis for their ideology, let them have it. As politics, it’s a downer.
This statement, while true, skirts a fundamental problem that Republicans seem reluctant to face. Even though the Won’s popularity is dropping (it is already below what George Bush’s was at this point in his presidency) along with the Dow, and gas prices are rising again, it is obvious that He is not the least bit concerned about the economy.
I believe that the reason is simple. With the Holder Justice Department and ACORN in power elections are on their way out. The attempt by the Won’s White House to grab the 2010 census is only the latest in efforts to turn America into Zimbabwe.
Think I exaggerate? Consider just the US Senate. The blatant steal of the seat in Minnesota carrys on a sorry tradition of voting fraud and crooked election officials. The 2006 Virginia and 2008 North Carolina races are two more examples. In all of these cases ACORN made an enormous effort into stealing these elections – and walked away with two Senate seats as a result. In 2010 we will see this fraud go nationwide, backed by the Holder Justice department. No GOP seat can be considered safe anymore.
No matter how unpopular the Won and His Democrats get, they cannot be voted out of office.
By Gaius, March 7, 2009 @ 11:44 am
I hope you’re wrong.
By feeblemind, March 7, 2009 @ 12:15 pm
I don’t believe Repubs are taking full advantage of this because the GOP is still at war with itself. Even worse, the GOP has no effective leadership. Anyone who steps forward will get the Palin Treatment. Mwalimu Daudi is right that ACORN will expand their efforts, but I see them concentrating on battleground states and the Old South. There are still states where such efforts would be a waste of resources. I don’t know what happens in two years even if things get much worse. In the 30s, the public continually voted the dems into power no matter how bad things got.