Car Wreck at the White House ("Creeping sense that the bottom has fallen out...no second term")

The Washington Post ^ | Monday, June 11, 2012 | Dana Milbank

[kristinn]

It has been a Junius Horribilis for President Obama.

Job growth has stalled, the Democrats have been humiliated in Wisconsin, the attorney general is facing a contempt-of-Congress citation, talks with Pakistan have broken down, Bill Clinton is contradicting Obama, Mitt Romney is outraising him, Democrats and Republicans alike are complaining about a “cascade” of national-security leaks from his administration, and he is now on record as saying that the “private sector is doing fine.”

Could it get any worse?

Early Monday morning, Obama learned that it could. His aides delivered the news to him that his commerce secretary had been cited for a felony hit-and-run after allegedly crashing his car three times over the weekend. In one incident, the previously obscure Cabinet officer apparently rear-ended a Buick, spoke to the car’s occupants, then hit the vehicle again as he left.

SNIP

For the White House, it was just the latest entry in the when-it-rains-it-pours ledger. This has been one of the worst stretches of the Obama presidency. In Washington, there is a creeping sense that the bottom has fallen out and that there may be no second term. Privately, senior Obama advisers say they are no longer expecting much economic improvement before the election.

Carney had the unenviable task of confronting the full arsenal of gloom at Monday afternoon’s briefing.

The AP asked about the president’s unfortunate private-sector-is-fine remark. The Reuters correspondent asked about the economic “head winds” from Europe. Ed Henry of Fox News Channel asked about the looming contempt-of-Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. Margaret Talev of Bloomberg News asked about the Supreme Court striking down Obamacare. Norah O’Donnell of CBS News asked about calls for a special prosecutor to probe leaks. Victoria Jones of Talk Radio News asked about the stalled talks with Pakistan.

[Verginius Rufus]

Interesting that this is coming from Dana Milbank, one of the nastiest Bush-haters in the media when GWB was President. He is on MSNBC a lot, I think (I don't watch any of their programs, other than an occasional snippet of "Morning Joe" when FNC is showing commercials, but sometimes see his mug while flipping through channels).

Obama probably still thinks the media will pull it out for him...or he will come up with an October Surprise that will change the trajectory.

[MrB]

I’d say 0bama was quite successful in advancing the communist agenda in his first 2 years.

They didn’t realize, however, just how BIG the “sleeping giant” was.

[plain talk]

“Can it get any worse”

? Yes it can always get worse as we saw with obama compared to george w bush (miss me yet). It can even get worse than obama believe it or not. The fact that obama could be reelected after all this is mind boggling to me. We have a dangerously fickle and ignorant population and anything is possible.

[antceecee]

Whatever floats yer boat buddy... I’m going to celebrate!!! You can fall into your negative-nellie quagmire if you wish (or perhaps you love the obiecare..hmmm??) , but overturning Obamacare by SCOTUS will be a party deserving victory in my book.

[sand88]

or perhaps you love the obiecare..hmmm??)

Do you have any reading comprehension skills at all? Anyone with an ability to reason would, after reading the post that you responded, never assume I would ever think of "obiecare" in a positive manner.

Your comments are sadly pathetic and juvenile. -lol.

I will be quite pleased to see Obamacare overturned. But, I am rational enough to know it will change little once the RINOs and RATs rework it.