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| The Weight Around the Democrats' Ankles: Barack Obama |
| 2010-02-10 |
| President Obama has attempted, through his health care plan, one of the most ambitious government takeovers of the private economy in our lifetime. Republican lawmakers have, to a person, declined to assist Obama in this effort. Opposition by the out-of-power party is not unusual -- although the degree of polarization we have seen during the Obama presidency is unprecedented. Barack Obama is the most polarizing first year president since the 1950s, when Gallup first began polling on this issue. What is unusual, and politically worrisome for Obama, is for a president this early in his tenure to see his own party increasingly pay little heed to his wishes. For example, the Obama administration took great pride in announcing that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be given a civilian trial in New York City, just a few blocks from where the World Trade Center buildings were attacked and destroyed. This was supposed to be emblematic of what a law-abiding, image-changing administration it is. Yet late last week most of the New York Congressional delegation and other New York officials told the president that he best find a new venue. Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of the administration's closest allies on Capitol Hill, said that he was hopeful the administration could "find suitable alternatives." Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein agreed that the trial should be moved, saying, "from an intelligence perspective, the situation has changed with the Christmas attack . . . and the administration should take note of that and make a change as well." And on Sunday, Indiana Democratic Sen. Evan Bayh said that the KSM trial "sounded good in theory way back when but, in practice, it just was not the right thing to do." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Son of Jimmah. Remember the misery index? Fearless prediction: watch Barry's 2008 electoral coalition fall apart the way Jimmah's did in 1980: first blue-collar whites, then left-libs, finally jews will defect, leaving only afr-americans and some hispanics. Wonder who will play the Teddy K role and challenge Barry from the left in 2012? |
| Posted by: lex 2010-02-10 15:56 |
| #3 Man, if them GM cars could turn on a dime like a Democratic senator, they'd make enough money to buy the government. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-02-10 14:45 |
| #2 Most painful to many voters is their unemployment, falling standard of living and decreasing ability to afford necessities. They don't need the MSM to tell them about that. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-02-10 14:41 |
| #1 With the help of the MSM the Democratic party has has been able to hide its agenda, its complicity in the nation's problems and its corruption by blaming Bush and the Republicans. With control of both the executive and legislative branches that is no longer possible. Obama is the face of the problem because the gap between his campaign promises and his adminstration's actions is painfully apparent to the voters. However, that gap is no bigger than the gap between promises and actions of any other swing state/district democrat. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2010-02-10 11:40 |