Posted on 02/13/2010 8:33:54 AM PST by kingattax
When a presidency and an agenda are collapsing at the rate that President Obama’s are, it isn’t long before his party begins to distance itself from him. We’ve seen plenty of signs of this lately.
Politico.com has a story today titled “Family feud: Nancy Pelosi at odds with President Obama.”
According to the story:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House.
Then there are the comments by Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, who said, “He [Obama] says ‘I’m for clean coal,’ and then he says it in his speeches, but he doesn’t say it in here. And he doesn’t say it in the minds of my own people. And he’s beginning to not be believable to me.”
Much of what President Obama has said hasn’t been believable to many of us for quite some time now.
But when influential figures in a president’s own party begin to make statements such as these — especially when you’re only 13 months into a presidency — it’s clear that things are beginning to become a bit unglued.
Party discipline is tossed aside; the intra-party sniping makes the situation even worse. And the vicious cycle Democrats are caught in merely accelerates.
It has dawned on many Democrats that in hitching their fortunes to Obama and Obamaism, they have put themselves at enormous political risk. They are all complicit in this; Obama himself outsourced much of his agenda to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The entire Democratic establishment is the architect of what is shaping up as an epic political failure. But Mr. Obama is head of the Democratic party, and so the responsibility lies with him more than with anyone else. He is primus inter pares. And he is now, with every passing week, the target of their unhappiness. More is sure to follow.
This isn’t going to end well for them.
Liberals will become cannibals before the end of his term.
When libs tun on their own, it is vicious! And fun to watch. Hehe.
exactly. pass the popcorn...
My oracle says to me that Nanny Pelousy will become MORE vociferous in her demands and she will publicly embarrass herself.
She is going to turn into a harridan not that she already is now just a lot worse
Everyone keep praying this guy fails, that the democrat leadership fails, fails to pass ANY legislation that will damage this country more than they already have.
da’ crocodiles are just snappin’ ain’t dey?
mo bettah get some azzzz protexshun
Is the magic gone? Is the star fading? Is the savior just a shallow narcissist? Where is the faith? With Biden, Reid, Pelosi and Gore as backup, how can he fail?
It is very telling when the Rockefeller’s become vocal against the “anointed one”. One interesting part is that Obama may not have the capacity to understand failure...that when something does not happen according to his vision, it is always someone else’s problem. I believe we will see many more campaign speeches from the president, and we will see many democrats thrown under the bus as the entire Obama agenda implodes. Obama can only blame other for his failures for so long....and although for a season it may have held the wolves at bay, it’s affect is quickly diminishing and will not stick in the future. November is going to be very interesting!!!
Good news all around. It looks like 2010 is ours to lose. Let’s hope we don’t blow it.
Pelousy embarasses herself everytime she opens her mouth in public.
lol
That has got to be the nicest way I've ever heard anybody being called a stink'n liar. lol
When I see articles like this my FIRST gut reaction is to view it as one of many offerings to lull/seduce conservatives into complacency and chomping onto popcorn, rather than keeping on keeping on.....subtle and even subliminal is employed those in media who share the tear America down agenda......
;)
“He is primus inter pares.”
THAT is an illusion......he is merely the chosen figurehead of those puppetmasters who are actually running the show
That’s what I thought. When a liberla like Rockefeller says this then things are getting bad for Obama. This could be very good news for our side.
yes this is going to get bad before it gets better
Yes, the Democrat party may become the Donner party!
Yeah, me too. Makes me want to push harder and harder.
Keep telling people that. They have to realize what’s going on, the MSM is just pro-Barack propaganda, all the time. They don’t even have to take any direction from him, they are deciding how to help him all on their own.
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/02/11/poor-paul-krugmans-heart-is-broken/
Although he was one of Barack Obama’s most fervent supporters two years ago, New York Times columnist and blogger Paul Krugman seems to have lost his faith in the president’s ability to “radically transform” America. Put differently, the Nobel Prize winning economist’s heart is broken:
“I’m with Simon Johnson here: how is it possible, at this late date, for Obama to be this clueless?
“The lead story on Bloomberg right now contains excerpts from an interview with Business Week which tells us:
“President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein, noting that some athletes take home more pay…
“Oh. My. God.”
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