While Democrats continue to belie their claims that Sarah Palin is a joke or a distraction by focusing as much of their heavy artillery on the former VP candidate as they can muster, the walls are closing in. Barack Obama has just concluded an absolute stinker of a trip to the Far East, which included bowing literally to the Japanese emperor and bowing figuratively to the Chinese. The New York Times, meantime, glumly reports that Senate Democrats may not be able to scrape together the 60 votes needed to open a debate on health care, while Harry Reid’s days as a senator may be numbered.
Meantime, the president is feeling increasing heat from the left, who feel jilted over his apparent unseriousness about climate change legislation and calls to bring the troops home from the “war of necessity” in Afghanistan. Then there is the matter of recovery.org claiming job creation in 440 congressional districts that do are non-existent.
Some Democrat strategists are trying to figure out how, with majorities in both houses and a radical president, they are faced with such a mess. Makes you wonder — not about the mess but about the Democrat strategists. Who could have not predicted that the American public would spit up Obama’s efforts to nationalize health care, his efforts to plunge the economy into a full-scale depression by taxing energy, and his dishonesty about Afghanistan? Who could have not predicted that a president with no leadership experience and an ego the size of the great outdoors would find the job of leading the free world to be “above his pay grade”?
Right now, the White House claims to be confident that they’ve got the wind at their backs. To which I say, “Wait until next year.” Wait until the mid-term elections come around and Dems trying to save their seats have to explain to constituents how Obama’s promises — e.g., that unemployment would not rise above 8 percent if his stimulus were passed — turned out to be false. Or why there are no real jobs being created — permanent jobs in the private sector, not make-work jobs improving stretches of highway that need no improvement. Or wait until 2012, when the “messiah” himself has to defend his handiwork in debates with the Republican contender for his job.
Sarah Palin a joke? Not to anyone whose been watching the generally left-leaning Saturday Night Live in recent months. She’s yesterday’s news. Their sights are trained now on a new target, who — the more he says and does — makes their writers’ work that much easier.
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Sarah Palin a joke? It’s no laughing matter.
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November 18th, 2009 at 8:52 am
@ fuster:
A lot of folks are striving very mightily to drive a stake through her heart. It’s hard not to think they see her as a threat.
Not totally illogical either. Who really thought Al Franken could get elected Senator a year before he did?
I personally think that a majority even of Republicans won’t see Palin as the best Presidential candidate for at least a couple of election cycles, if ever; but we have a man in the White House whom the political luminaries surrounding Hillary Clinton thought no threat as little as eight months before he was elected.
November 18th, 2009 at 9:06 am
@ Sully:
Sully, are those people seriously trying to trash her, not the people simply giggling, mostly from one party or are Democrats also heavily represented?
November 18th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Sucks Being Them
Democrat&Republican
“A Pox on both their Houses.”
November 18th, 2009 at 9:40 am
Lets not forget that Reid has just announced that cap and trade legislation will have to wait until next spring. Which means it is dead.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@ JEM:
Kinda fun watching them squander all that power by attempting to launch such dopey programs. If Obama were more experienced (thank God for small things), not to mention a little smarter, he would have attempted his coup more gradually, instead of attempting to “remake” America (his term) in one fell swoop.
That would have given the Dems in Congress an edge. Rather than be saddled with a mountain of radical legislation that they were expected to pass in the wink of an eye, they would have had time to stick it to the people a little bit here, a little bit there.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
@ Howard Portnoy:
They overreached in trying to grab two more trillion plus dollar bags of boodle to go with the stimulus package; but they did get the stimulus bonanza, and they may still get a hunk of health care.
Figure a 6% corruption rake and they’re already $60 Billion to the good off the stimulus. If they get health care they’re another $60+ billion to the good. Big stakes poker.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
But Cap n Trade was particularly sweet because the rent seekers in Wall Street (particularly Goldman Sachs) was waiting to suck up all the credit trading dollars and now it is … poof. A real market I have no problem with someone getting their money, but the use of the government to get one created which they can line their pockets with kind of rubs me the wrong way.
Why don’t libs realize that the big businesses they hate, frequently use the government to block as much competition as possible? A smaller government that did much fewer things would allow those big businesses to have to sink or swim. Conservative opinions on government functions would actually help them fight the business monster.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
@ JEM:
Why don’t big business guys, or their stockholders, understand that they’re ferrying a scorpion across a river in exchange for his promise that he won’t sting them when he gets to the other side?
November 18th, 2009 at 5:23 pm