Even the Wizard of O and his munchkin minions know they are in real trouble:
In other words, if people measure us against perfection, we will fall short. But people won’t be measuring Obama and Democrats against perfection; they will be measuring him/them against the standards Obama set up — for example, insisting that unemployment would not exceed 8 percent in 2009 (it is now 10 percent); that the stimulus package would “create or save” 3.5 million jobs over the course of two years (2.8 million jobs have been lost since it was signed into law); that the deficit and debt would go down on his watch (Obama’s budget will double the debt in five years and triple it in 10 years); and so forth.
Mr. Axelrod also tells Brownstein that next on his checklist is “finish this health care bill successfully.” And after that? “Then we have to go out and sell it. I think we can run on this.”
The problem is that the president has been trying to “sell” ObamaCare for more than half a year. He has spoken out on its behalf repeatedly and in every forum imaginable. And the more Obama attempts to sell the Democrats’ health-care plan, the more unpopular it becomes. After a prolonged and intense debate on this issue, here’s what they have to show for it: “The president’s marks on handling health care, with reforms still under debate in Congress, are even lower [than his overall job approval rating of 46 percent] — just 36 percent approve, while 54 percent disapprove,” according to the latest CBS News poll. “Both of these approval ratings are the lowest of Mr. Obama’s presidency.”
The voters will also be measuring every Democrat who votes for passage of health care “reform”, crap and tax and all of the rest of Obama’s economic destruction policies. Those Senators and Representatives who support Obama will be in an uphill battle to save their political behinds.
I think that this is shaping up as a “throw the bums out” election. Republicans in Congress will need to be very, very careful what they vote for this year. So will Democrats who do not want to be exiled politically. If they pass their partisan ObamaCare, there is nothing that will stop the deluge. They will be washed away in the flood. That includes buffoons like Bendover Nelson who thinks he is safe because he is not running again until 2012. The voters will not forget, nor will they forgive.
