Posted on 03/28/2010 5:23:55 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Barack Obama gains steam, plows ahead
By CAROL E. LEE | 3/28/10 7:11 PM EDT
POLITICO 44
President Barack Obama has in one week gone from a man begging for votes from freshman congressmen to a globe-trotting commander-in-chief parachuting into a war zone.
Not long ago, Obama was pleading with Democrats that his presidency was on the line if health reform failed. Now he expects new Wall Street regulations on his desk by September – or Memorial Day, if possible. The White House is also looking for Democrats to pass a revamped education law and renewed campaign finance restrictions while they’re at it.
The fact that today Obama is poised to plow ahead on a ambitious agenda is as much a testament to the pendulum of Washington politics – when you’re hot, you’re hot – as it is to Obama’s sustained quality of always playing the tortoise to everyone else’s hare. A little luck and timing never hurt either, and Obama benefitted from both to pull off several feats in a small window of time.
The president began last week with a midnight victory on his top domestic policy effort – which also happens to be the most expansive revamp of the nation’s health care system since 1965. He ended it with a secret, 14-hour flight to Afghanistan to personally confront his top foreign policy challenge in his first trip to the war zone as president.
In between, Obama won reforms to the federal student loan system that had been stalled for decades. He negotiated a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia. And he defied Republican objections, as Democrats have long wished he would, to unilaterally appoint 15 of his nominees.
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I notice how the Titanic merrily steamed ahead, as well.....before being sunk by an iceberg. So much for “unsinkable,” huh? =.=
Nice to see a commie lib shouting “Train wreck ahead!”
Barforama, barfumungous, hurlaggedon, upset tummy of the apocolypse. Words fail me.
Can you imagine the corrupt MSM writing such glowing stories about George Bush. These people are totally in the tank for Obama. It’s as if these media types seriously get aroused by him.
Yeah, he goes to Afghanistan...to deliver another damned speech.
This is the equivalent of journalistic fellatio.
“...a globe-trotting commander-in-chief parachuting into a war zone.” Another stunt? Too bad they didn’t drop the bastard!
Loses steam, plows into the ditch.
***This is the equivalent of journalistic fellatio.***
What an incredible and appropriate analogy. I gotta remember that one!
Only thing is, this one will not stand. By 2013, 0bamacare will be very dead one way or the other.
Dodging sniper fire, like hillary, to be with “his” troops.
Headline should read “Barrack Odumbo full of hot air, prospects for November have him ready to shit bricks.”
Parachuted?
I want what the Blondie who wrote this is on.
That’s not steam, it’s just alot of hot air. Expect unemployment to hit 20% when CommieCare Taxes all kick in.
The Kenyan couldn't parachute if his life depended upon it. George H. W. Bush could though. Even at 80.
Urp...I’m gonna...I’m gonna....puuuuuuke.....
I hate these articles but it’s like an acccident, I can’t just turn away. I wonder what long-term damage it’s inflicting on my psyche.
This is a very nice piece. Our Supreme and Merciful Leader will be pleased. Well done, comrade.
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