New Republic: 'Barack Obama Faces a Moment Where His Presidency Just Might Collapse'

NewsBusters ^ | January 27, 2010 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

The liberal meltdown as a result of the last week's election in Massachusetts continues apace.

And the latest victim of the Bay State choosing Republican #41 for a Senate seat is the editorial staff of The New Republic. Anybody who follows The New Republic, such as your humble correspondent who has kept the NewsBusters Eye of Sauron focused on that liberal outpost knows they are a bunch of policy wonks who have spent the better part of the past year obsessed over every arcane detail of ObamaCare as well as closely following its passage in its various versions through the House and Senate. In fact the two New Republic Jonathans, Chait and Cohn, are so emotionally invested in the fate of ObamaCare, that I fear for their mental health should that legislation, as now appears likely, fails to pass.

You want an example of how depressed The New Republic has become on the topic of the Obama presidency? Well, just check out this meltdown money quote from their latest editorial:

How does this president handle a crisis? Thus far, the answer is not at all encouraging. The current crisis is the election in Massachusetts of Scott Brown, now the forty-first Republican senator. His arrival in Washington has sent Democrats into panic mode--fearful that they too will be swallowed by a seething electorate--and caused many of them to flee in the other direction from health care reform. In short, Barack Obama faces a moment where his presidency just might collapse or, rather, risks heading into a wilderness where it would accomplish next to none of its ambitious goals.

[PJ-Comix]

Time to send Care packages full of Prozac to The New Republic.

[PJ-Comix]

PING!

[dforest]

They don’t need any Prozac, the have Hope n’ Change!

[Oceander]

Who, you mean that cartoon character, Buck Ofama? He's already a farce, a joke, a maroon:

[Savage Beast]

I like this one:

"Never before has a Democratic president inherited more propitious circumstances for advancing reform to fruition."

Not exactly Shakespeare, is it!

[pingman]

An Ultra-Marooooon!

[bert]

.....Oh, and another federal holiday......

and a grave to be pissed on

[manonCANAL]

Yhere will be a long line to pi$$ on that grave. Hope I get there early.

[manonCANAL]

there sorry

[headsonpikes]

"Obama - Thrown Under The Commie Bus!"

Ya gotta love it - especially when you consider that it's a short bus, as they say.

It must really suck to be an Obambot these days - it's gonna be a long 3 years until November 2012.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Oh, and another federal holiday.

Federal holiday => no mail => no bills arive that day.

Watch them spin it as “middle class debt relief”.

[Gorzaloon]

Yhere will be a long line to pi$$ on that grave. Hope I get there early.

Tip: Foster's comes in quart cans.

[Broker]

The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.

—author unknown

[DeaconRed]

PRESIDENCY JUST MIGHT COLLAPSE?

I don't see how.
For something to collapes it has to be erected first.
I really don't think his presidency ever got off the ground.
Sure some of the idiots that expected the chage he promised thought he was going to be great. Then the reality set in and most of them realized what we all knew from the beginning.
THAT IS: ZERO SUCKS. AND HE CAN'T COLLAPSE BECAUSE HE IS ALREADY ON THE BOTTOM. . . . . . V#537

[paulycy]

Barack Obama faces a moment where his presidency just might collapse or, rather, risks heading into a wilderness where it would accomplish next to none of its ambitious goals.

Yep. And that moment may come tonight depending on how he appears during the SOTU message - sane or space cadet.

[MortMan]

Whatta nin-cow-poop! Whatta a gull-i-bull!

[tired&retired]

O’Bummer is an anti establishment polititian. When facing odds like this, I suggest that he come out mean, nasty, and with a gun pointed at his head like Black Bart in Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles”:

Bart holds a gun to his own neck, shouting:

“Hold it. The next man makes a move, the #*&%! gets it...Drop it! For I swear, I’ll blow this #*&%!’s head all over this town. Oh Lordy-lord, he’s desperate. Do what he say. Do what he say.”

When he successfully holds the lynch mob at bay and is allowed safe passage out of harm’s way, he marvels at his accomplishment and congratulates himself for bluffing them: “Oh baby, you are so talented, and they are so dumb.”

Humor intended!

[Daisyjane69]

Honest to God, these people scare the hell out of me.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Never before has a Democratic president inherited more propitious circumstances for advancing reform to fruition. And, although liberals might have griped as reform plodded its way through the various fiefdoms of the Senate, a monumental bill ultimately emerged, an impressive work of consensus that survived the interest-group ringer and the annoying maneuverings of Senators Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman. Congress was one or two perfunctory roll-call votes away from sending a bill to Obama’s desk. That’s when Brown won his upset, instantly making the distance the bill needed to travel to the president’s desk seem unbearably immense.

Nothing worse than policy wonks with a well used thesaurus.

I guarantee you that TNR is never fully read by DUmmies. They'll wait for the Clift-Notes version from the Kossacks and Huffers.