Presidency on the verge of nervous breakdown: 5 reasons why Obama’s future looks increasingly bleak

The London Telegraph ^ | October 10, 2010 (10/10/10) | Nile Gardiner

[2ndDivisionVet]

Forget the myth of an Obama recovery. The past week has been disastrous for the White House and America’s increasingly disillusioned Left. No wonder the angry and desperate Vice President Joe Biden is talking about “playing hell” if his party suffers defeat in November.

Here are five reasons why the Obama presidency’s outlook is getting significantly worse, not better:

1. A new Gallup poll suggests the November mid-terms could result in the biggest victory for Republicans in the House since 1894

Gallup’s latest poll is absolutely devastating in its analysis of the Democrats’ prospects for November 2, projecting a 13 point lead for the Republicans based on higher overall turnout, and a staggering 18 point lead if turnout is low. In Gallup’s view:

If there is a widely disproportionate skew in turnout toward Republican voters and their national vote lead ends up being in the double digits, the Republican gains would be very substantial.

As leading election analyst Michael Barone noted, the Gallup numbers “suggest it looks like 1894, when Republicans gained more than 100 seats in a House of approximately 350 seats.” If the Gallup poll proves accurate, we could be looking at a GOP victory in the House of Representatives of absolutely historic proportions, a scenario frightening enough to give even the most seasoned Obama White House adviser nightmares.

2. The Senate now hangs in the balance

Rasmussen’s latest projection has both the Democrats and Republicans with 48 seats in the Senate, with Florida moving into the solid GOP camp, and West Virginia moving from toss up to leans GOP. Four states (all Democrat) are now in the toss-up category: California, Illinois, Nevada and Washington...

[Darkwolf377]

In my decades of experience living in liberal Boston and Cambridge I can say with confidence that most libs live to be the person in the room condemning someone else’s values/morals, while complaining that religious conservatives are too judgemental. Their favorite position is that of the voice of morality against the eeeeevil majority. They love thinking themselves as cool loners, crying against the mob for the rights of the Little People.

Of course, they despise the very people they claim to champion, and only care about them because they give the liberal a handy someone to champion around their cool peers. They party with the white wine set, and whine about the beer and blue collar folks—who they’d never live among if they could afford it.

[okie01]

You know the same liberals I know.

Except that mine are in Texas...

[Darkwolf377]

The spiritual disease of liberalism knows no borders, and wanders the land freely, like the common cold.

[Gaffer]

The latest fear I have is something I’ve been personally convinced they will implement. Now with the Lame Duck congress coming up and at least a Republican-controlled House, the lame duck session will be a cornucopia of failed liberal initiatives from days of yore: immigration amnesty, consolidation of healthcare taxes and authority of Executive agencies, and the ultimate freedom killer - confiscation of 401Ks and assets. It WILL happen Sen. Tom Harkin is already holding ‘hearings’ on it.