Posted on 09/01/2009 2:36:24 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
I was the first pundit to predict that Barack Obama would become president. Here's what I think we can expect from this administration in the next six to eight weeks.
Never has an administration had more political firepower at their disposal yet been set to so totally fail in the next six to eight weeks. It is nearly a foregone conclusion. It is nearly unavoidable. And it defies all logic given the sizable majority the administration has in both houses of Congress.
Since I was the first pundit to predict Obama's presidency (back in December 2006) it behooves me to tell you the course I believe the next few weeks will take. Just think, it was only a few months ago that the left looked unstoppable in bringing about their plan to radicalize, nationalize, and federalize America.
1. Health Care's Long and Painful Death
Barring the existing possibility that the Democrats cram a reform bill down the throats of actively protesting Americans through an ultra-partisan process that would shut out conservatives and Republicans from even being allowed to contribute to the discussion, health care reform is dead.
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I tend to believe him when he says he doesn't care if he is a one-termer. He is a die-hard Marxist, a zealot, who will do anything to shove through as much of the Marxist agenda as he can. That is the legacy he is looking for.
He is young enough to wait a couple of cycles to try for a second term.
Had the train wreck, now Burn, baby, Burn!
Whether he’s being truthful or not, he’s running the risk of breaking his arm by patting himself on the back so fervently. Perhaps a modicum of humility would serve him well.
He doesn’t really say what the post-implosion will look like. Nature and politics abhor a vacuum.
Pong.
New Obama saying to Rush and the GOP:
“I one...term.”
I had Obungle pegged to become POTUS back in 2004, although I thought that it wouldn’t be until 2012 or 2016.
His speech at the Dim Convention in ‘04 was quite good (it was written by a professional speechwriter, after all) I didn’t believe a word of it, but I said “Here’s what they were waiting for-a black guy who sounds like a white guy” —not a Birth of a Nation style buffoon like Sharpton or Jessuh. In addition, by ‘04 our sheeple had become so PC I knew many were dying to feel good about themselves, without having to think.
So, I went out, and later that year, read BO’s book, Dreams from my Father. It chilled me to the bone. I knew he’d be bad—just not that bad. Been dreading this time ever since. I can’t believe so many of my fellow Americans could have been so stupid.
I didn’t see any explanation as to what was meant by implosion... just more predictions of what we already know is coming.
Obama could be at 15% approval rating, and the press would be reporting it as an increase from the previous week, month, or whatever time period it was lower.... for ANY president.
Frankly, I don’t think Obama gives a rats behind about his approval, as long as he is able to forward his crash and burn agenda. If somebody doesn’t link his agenda in court to that of an enemy of the constitution quick, then Obama will have a free ride all the way to America’s poor house.
That's Obama's problem, actually ... he had lots of good-will behind him, but that's not the same as political power.
For good reason, politics has been described as "the art of the possible." It involves bringing people with disparate views together in a way that all can, to some extent, agree on a particular course of action. It's ugly and messy, and nobody gets everything they want, but the majority gets part of what they want.
Good-will translates into political power if and only if that good-will used in the service of "doing what is possible."
Obama's problem is that he is quite arrogantly asking for things that are quite obviously not possible. If nothing else, people are choking on the multi-TRILLION dollar deficits his proposals will require. And he's lying about stuff, too.....
He's spending his good-will at a ruinous pace; he never had the political power to make his ideas stick.
But not his interest IMO.
I won’t disagree with your statement.
Actually, believe it or not, David Brooks said something very astute in something I read yetserday. (I hate him too). He said liberals are shocked that America doesn’t agree with the Huffington Post, it’s true.
That’s how full of themselves they are. I have very liberal friends and they are completely self-delusional politically. They thought the culture war was over months ago and thought they had one. Obama really blew it.
won not “one”.
that was nearly a year before the rumor that Hillary was a lesbian swamped the internet.You must have had inside info
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