Consensus: Obama, Democrats missed their window
posted at 12:55 pm on September 7, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
Today is more or less the official opening of the midterm general election, even though a handful of states still have primaries in the next two weeks. The consensus appears to be that Democrats are heading to the woodshed, and perhaps to minority status in both chambers of Congress, thanks to economic policies that have left the US with high unemployment, low consumer confidence, and enormous public debt. Barack Obama spent the weekend promising to pivot his attention to joblessness, but three analysts say that the President missed his window.
First, Byron York:
Two days before Christmas, Politico reported that White House officials believed it would last until February — after which Obama would make a “very hard pivot” to the jobs issue.
But health care dragged on even longer; the bill didn’t pass until March 21. Even then, with his No. 1 priority accomplished, Obama did not execute the long-awaited pivot and go full-tilt on the economy. In fact, at times it was hard to tell just what he was doing. “So has he already made the hard pivot to jobs, or are we still waiting for that to happen?” a reporter asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs during that time.
Then came months during which Obama sometimes talked about the economy and sometimes talked about energy and sometimes about immigration and sometimes the Middle East and sometimes about other stuff. Watching the polls, Democrats squirmed, seeing their hopes for November grow dimmer and dimmer. Republicans looked on, bewildered.
“I don’t get it,” GOP pollster David Winston told me at the time. “I don’t understand what he is doing. He’s not addressing the No. 1 issue that Americans want him to address.”
Mark Halperin says that it’s the White House that didn’t “get it,” and that Democrats had plenty of warning. If Scott Brown’s election surprise in deep-blue Massachusetts didn’t wake them up, they have no one to blame but themselves:
Even with Obama’s announcements this week proposing new infrastructure policy and business tax credits, the President’s party has done little since Brown’s victory to improve its standing on those priorities. House and Senate Democrats have wasted the year futilely trying to sell their past accomplishments, and the President has been distracted by the BP oil spill, the war in Afghanistan and negotiations on the Middle East. Second, anti-Obama anger over his record on economic issues will spur Republicans and unaligned voters to the polls to send a message to the majority party, while Democrats, including the young and first-time voters who propelled Barack Obama to the White House just two years ago, have little enthusiasm for casting ballots this time around.
So far, at least, Democrats have offered no compelling case on the economy, either to energize their base or take the edge off the Republican assertion that voters need to send a message to Obama and check his big-spending ways. Polls show that the Republican argument is connecting with likely voters even more than with citizens overall.
Many months of mostly negative economic news, particularly on unemployment, have left the Democrats unable to build a happy-days-are-here-again platform. Democratic legislative achievements, like health care, are being used against the President’s party, and few Democratic candidates are touting their role in these bittersweet victories. Road tests of a variety of alternative messages (“It’s George Bush’s fault,” “Republican control of Congress would make things even worse,” “Republicans have blocked progress in Washington,” “Republicans want to take away your Social Security,” “Republicans are wacky extremists”) have had a very limited effect so far. In fact, every bit of national and race-by-race polling data suggests extensive deterioration of the Democrats’ position as the year has gone on. One sign of the Democrats weakness on the economic battlefield: the looming fight over whether to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, once seen by strategists in the White House and on Capitol Hill as a huge opportunity for their party, is now a face-off Republicans are hotly anticipating.
Halperin uses the word “tsunami” to describe the coming midterm prospects for the GOP. So does Politico’s Mike Allen:
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out Tuesday found that that the administration’s “Recovery Summer” was a bust: In May, 40 percent of respondents said the economy would get better in the next 12 months. Now, that figure is 26 percent.
Democrats, it’s now clear, could lose bigger than they did in the Republican revolution of 1994, which produced House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a 54-seat GOP gain. This year, Republicans would need a 39-seat pickup to seize control, and forecasts for their gains run as high as 60 seats. …
In the ABC/Washington Post poll, an astonishing 92 percent of respondents described the state of the nation’s economy as bad, compared with 8 percent who said it was good. (The figure was 90 percent in July, and peaked at 94 percent in January.) For the first time in Barack Obama’s presidency, the poll found that more people disapproved of his overall handling of his job than approved: 52 percent disapproved, while 46 percent approved.
And in another first, more people said Obama’s economic plan was making the economy worse (33 percent) than thought it was making the economy better (30 percent), while 36 percent said his programs were having “no real effect.”
Poll after poll showed that the economy and jobs were the highest priorities for American voters all throughout 2009. Instead of focusing on jobs and joblessness and implementing policies that would actually address both, Democrats instead focused on a health-care overhaul that voters didn’t want. After they passed ObamaCare, the White House decided to focus on a new law in Arizona to enforce the immigration laws that Obama more or less ignored, until the Gulf spill took up most of their attention more than a month after it started. The only focus on the economy came from Joe Biden, who touted “Recovery Summer” while economic indicators all went the wrong direction.
Voters have concluded that this administration and its Democratic colleagues in Congressional leadership either don’t care about the economy or have no clue how to address it. They are certainly not impressed with a President who promised a “hard pivot” in December and took nine months to begin executing it. Even the Titanic managed to maneuver a little more quickly than that and didn’t focus on rearranging deck chairs first. Obama missed his window, and it’s far too late to miss the iceberg now.
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..worth repeating: DON’T GET COMPLACENT FOLKS!!!!!!
The War Planner on September 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM
Note to Republicans: this is what happens when you ignore what is really bothering a majority of Americans and focus instead on “delivering” for your base.
Democrats were very happy to ride a financial crisis into the White House and a huge majority in Congress, but once they took over all they cared about was delivering on the Left’s wish list of health care, cap-and-trade, amnesty, and massive spending on public employees. Independent voters are watching and going “huh?”
rockmom on September 7, 2010 at 1:47 PM
If I remember right, the lumber industry has stopped in certain parts of BC Canada due to lack of funds and slow production via the U.S.A.
You better get your head outta your buns and realize that your country is next for the slump as it exports 65% of it’s items to the U.S.
upinak on September 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM
Pivot may be too much… perhaps if we asked him to dogleg to the right he’d give it a look.
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM
Now, now, you don’t want Rywall’s head to explode.
Chip on September 7, 2010 at 1:49 PM
Too late
http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/08/31/GDP-growth-in-Canada-slows-to-05-percent/UPI-11661283279971/
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 1:53 PM
It is going to grind to a halt soon enough. The U.S. doesn’t have Manufacturing jobs because they were all moved to overseas or Canada as well.
It is going to be interesting to watch.
upinak on September 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM
That happened long ago. He shows up here to fling a few of the bloody bits around.
Cody1991 on September 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM
This is so “The Emperor has no clothes.” There is no regal presidency. He won, but failed to govern for ALL the people, and he is reaping the rewards for it.
EliTheBean on September 7, 2010 at 1:58 PM
Harry Reid: “Don’t Blame Me”: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/117405-reid-dont-blame-me-for-high-unemployment-in-nevada
onlineanalyst on September 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM
Don’t forget the EU.
a capella on September 7, 2010 at 2:00 PM
The point is that Canada’s economy is already growing significantly more slowly than the US economy.
But hey, not to worry! Dave will come tell us how to do things the Canadian way!
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 2:01 PM
Makes you wonder how he can think…..
Oh wait.
Chip on September 7, 2010 at 2:02 PM
*snort*
upinak on September 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Hi, Uncle Red! How’s Old Man Sedgewick?
Last time I checked, Republicans didn’t control Congress. In other words, the Democrats can pass whatever they want, “obstruction” or no obstruction.
Del Dolemonte on September 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Note to Republicans: this is what happens when you ignore what is really bothering a majority of Americans and focus instead on “delivering” for your base.
rockmom on September 7, 2010 at 1:47 PM
You mean the Republicans might try to deliver to their “base”? How terrifying.
No, I’d be more worried about the opposite problem if Republicans regain power. This is why I’m almost ambivalent about it. I have no faith — ZERO faith — that Boehner or McConnell have a clue that much of what their “base” is demanding is exactly what is right for America.
rrpjr on September 7, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Let’s just hope that the Republicans really have figured out why they lost in 2006 and 2008. It is the same reason Democrats are losing this year. I think some Republicans get it but I’m not sure.
This is the best opportunity we have ever had to roll back the rise of big government in this country, but it is not really in the interest of any politician to limit their own power. It take integrity to do that.
Is their enough integrity in the Republican Party to actual give the people want they want?
I wish we could get term limits. That would fix so much.
petunia on September 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM
ZING!!!!!!!!!!
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
An expert on the subject chips in.
Del Dolemonte on September 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
Hi, Uncle Red! How’s Old Man Sedgewick?
Last time I checked, Republicans didn’t control Congress. In other words, the Democrats can pass whatever they want, “obstruction” or no obstruction.
Del Dolemonte on September 7, 2010 at 2:03 PM
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I guess you haven’t been watching much news then. That’s okay.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM
The US may lose it’s position as #1 manufacturing country to China soon, but Canada’s not even close.
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 2:12 PM
“Before President Obama’s address, he called former President George W. Bush. I’m not saying the economy is bad, but he called collect.” — Jay Leno
“I guess they had a pretty cordial conversation. President Bush said for the last 19 months, he’s been relaxing and playing golf. President Obama said, ‘You too?’” — Jay Leno
Schadenfreude on September 7, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Please tell me the date when Repubs took over? And we are not talking about your damn parliment in your country.
upinak on September 7, 2010 at 2:12 PM
if you own a passport, that is
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Shouldn’t you be more careful with the ‘if you own a passport’ sort of comments?
I remember how you got your ass handed to you after making a similar comment not too long ago.
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 1:46 PM
ZING!!!!!!!!!!
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
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As for never leaving these shores again? Gladly.
:)
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM
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Oh.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Dave, I’m still waiting for examples of the standard left talking point that no one can ever seem to back up … “deregulation” caused the economy to go south.
darwin on September 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM
:D
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM
We haven’t been number 1 in years.
upinak on September 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM
Just how many times is Barry going to do ‘a hard pivot’ to the economy? If you count them up, it means he’s going in circles.
GarandFan on September 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM
How about a linky, Binky?
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Keep bashing the gop dear leader, it’s working out so well for you so far
Heh
cmsinaz on September 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Schadenfreude on September 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM
Nothing w/b a huge improvement.
Schadenfreude on September 7, 2010 at 2:16 PM
Ok gop, you need to get your ducks in a row right now
cmsinaz on September 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM
I forgot… it’s great when Kenyans, Ukrainians, Ugandans, Chinese, etc. love their country… but somehow it’s wrong for Americans to love theirs.
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM
Missed their window? Anybody remember Obamacare? Does the stimulus ring a bell? How about the bailouts? They didn’t miss their window; they’ve done exactly what they set out to do even though they had to use a bulldozer to do it.
ncborn on September 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Smell that ice!
cmsinaz on September 7, 2010 at 2:18 PM
Hey, Dave, I’m sure that there are excellent grief counselors available in your government-run healthcare system that can assist you with your overwhelming sadness. Call and make an appointment. Hopefully, they can work you in before the American elections…in 2012.
kingsjester on September 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:12 PM
I forgot… it’s great when Kenyans, Ukrainians, Ugandans, Chinese, etc. love their country… but somehow it’s wrong for Americans to love theirs.
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 2:17 PM
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Low flying jet. Your head. Woosh.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Hey, Dave, I’m sure that there are excellent grief counselors available in your government-run healthcare system that can assist you with your overwhelming sadness. Call and make an appointment. Hopefully, they can work you in before the American elections…in 2012.
kingsjester on September 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM
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a good Christian would never say something like that
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM
The slowing economy in Canada shouldn’t be a problem. After all, they have universal healthcare, a growing immigrant population, and they have the advantage of not being the US.
A model
our president(mouth barf; where’s the Scope?) POTUS might be emulating here.BobMbx on September 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM
a good Christian would never say something like that
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Dave, the great thing about being a Christian is that were not perfect. Just forgiven.
kingsjester on September 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM
It’s more like Moonwalking. It just looks like he’s moving forward.
BobMbx on September 7, 2010 at 2:27 PM
I sense a premature victory gloat that imo is unwarranted.
We have yet to take back even a portion of the legislature, have no infrastructure in place to battle the massive vote fraud that is going on, and if we take a majority, need to make them actually DO the right things, #1 being disrupt, destroy and dismantle obama’s Shadow Government which is the real power moving America to her doom and which obama makes sure stays on a news blackout. (please read article excerpt included in this post)
And then there’s October. Don’t put it past berri to push Israel too far, starting a middle east conflagration, or, start some race riots here in October or even some serious trouble at polling places nationwide warranting a shut down nationally – all for the public’s safety, of course
But the most sinister danger looms in the Shadow Government that has taken root in our nation, and under obama is being utilized and expanded to it’s optimum destructiveness. It has no place in a Constitutional Republic and yet…
Please read the excerpt below:
“This is “in your face” tyranny. The very word Czar is repugnant to any democracy. The very definition of the word Czar means, “king” or “emperor” or “autocrat” or “tyrant.”
So far Obama has brought change to America, and that change is spelt C-Z-A-R-S, as he has appointed about 35 of these petty tyrants.
There is the Technology Czar,
the Afghanistan Czar,
the AIDS Czar,
the Water Czar,
the Climate Czar,
the Drug Czar,
the Faith-Based Czar,
the Green Jobs Czar,
the Great Lakes Czar, (soon the Gulf Coast Czar),
the Health Czar,
the Information Czar,
the Intelligence Czar,
the Pay Czar,
the Regulatory Czar,
the Science Czar,
the Terrorist Czar,
the Urban Affairs Czar,
the Weapons Czar,
the Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar,
and a growing list of other Czars.
Thus far, the tyranny of hundreds of thousands of pages of laws,
regulations,
Executive Orders,
Presidential Review Directives,
Presidential Decision Directives,
National Security Reviews,
National Security Directives,
National Security Presidential Directives,
Homeland Security Directives,
and now directives, regulations, laws, and orders from Czars have produced a seemingly soft tyranny…due to the fact that most despotic governmental actions are being kept out of the mainstream press.”
The legislature needs to be won – and this executive branch tyranny must be dismantled by them.
And so many here wonder why obama golfs and vacations and doesn’t care about losing Congress?
Congress? obama don’t need no stinking Congress.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/obama_government/news.php?q=1282753338
tigerlily on September 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM
I miss Drywall, crr6 and all the other trolls… Where have they been?
Khun Joe on September 7, 2010 at 2:31 PM
“”So has he already made the hard pivot to jobs, or are we still waiting for that to happen?” a reporter asked White House press secretary Robert Gibbs during that time.”"
He would have to know how. All he knows how to do is talk and read a teleprompter and he doesn’t do that better than the news readers. At least they have the sense to catch it when the teleprompter text gets hosed.
I keep saying, both he and the demturd leadership realy expected the economy to get better on its own, as it always has in the past, AND that they could claim the credit for success.
Only one problem. The watertight doors only go up to deck six and the ship’s nose is underwater.
dogsoldier on September 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM
When visiting your shrink, passive-aggressive tendencies are a good guess.
Schadenfreude on September 7, 2010 at 2:32 PM
Missed the window… defenestration is even worse when you’ve tried to do it to your own party and you’re aim is off.
Luckily the voting public now gets a say on what comes next, and fun will be had by all. Instead of the window, show them the door.
ajacksonian on September 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM
How about a linky, Binky?
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:14 PM
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Okay, dumbas*:
1
Feb 2010: Richard Shelby: blanket hold on all 70-plus executive nominees.
Why? Because he wanted some Air Force tanker pork for his home state.
2
Dec 2009: Republicans tried to filibuster a war funding bill to delay the healthcare bill. Oh wait – they missed by 7 votes, so that’s failed obstructionism. But still a good try don’t you think? Way to go, you 33 as*holes.
3
DeMint putting a hold on the TSA head.
4
March 2010
In the first year “0f the 111th Congress, there were a record 112 cloture votes. In the first two months of 2010, the number already exceeds 40.
That means with 10 months left to run in the 111th Congress, Republicans have turned to the filibuster or threatened its use at a pace that will more than triple the old record. ”
-NY Times
etc
etc
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Not quite all. To observe those who won’t have fun will be incredibly schadenfreudig, for their impertinence alone.
Schadenfreude on September 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM
a good Christian would never say something like that
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Dave, the great thing about being a Christian is that were not perfect. Just forgiven.
kingsjester on September 7, 2010 at 2:26 PM
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Well then, that is a truly awesome racket your mother and father have indoctrinated you into.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:36 PM
“I guess you haven’t been watching much news then. That’s okay.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:10 PM”
Del is correct. The Dems own the Senate and the house and have majorities large enough to stop Senate Filibusters.
But apparently you don’t understand how the US government works and you take the MSM propaganda at face value.
dogsoldier on September 7, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Are the Dems like the Titanic? More like “The Poiseidon Mis-adventure” – watch out for that broadside tsunami!
drunyan8315 on September 7, 2010 at 2:37 PM
Hey Drywall – how’s the job situation up there? As bad as ours? Better? Worse?
Dark-Star on September 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM
That’s not a link. That is you claiming that information was in the New York Slimes.
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM
The “stimulus” was the economic equivalent of “singing to the choir.” In their eagerness to make their friends happy, the Democrats in Congress forgot to at least please some of the other folks.
J_Crater on September 7, 2010 at 2:42 PM
…But the most sinister danger looms in the Shadow Government that has taken root in our nation, and under obama is being utilized and expanded to it’s optimum destructiveness. It has no place in a Constitutional Republic and yet…
(then attaches a list of Obama Czars)
tigerlily on September 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM
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OMG BUSH HAD CZARS
OMG
OMG
OMG
BUSH SHADOW GOVERNMENT
HERE ARE THE BUSH SHADOW GOVERNMENT EVIL MEN RIGHT HERE:
Abstinence Czar (Randal Tobias)
AIDS Czar (4 Czars: Scott Evertz, Joe O’Neill, Carol Thompson, Jeffrey Crowley)
Bank Bailout Czar (Neel Kashkari)
Bioethics Czar ( Leon Kass)
Bird flu Czar (Stewart Simonson)
Birth control czar (Erik Keroack)
Budget czar (3 Czars: Mitchell Daniels, Joshua Bolton, Rob Portman)
Clean Up Czar (2 Czars: Jessie Roberson & James Rispoli)
Communications Czar (Dan Bartlett)
Cyber Security Czar, Cyber Czar (2 Czars: Richard Clarke, Rod Beckstrom)
Democracy Czar (Elliott Abrams)
Domestic Policy Czar (Karl Rove)
Drug Czar (John P. Walters)
Faith-Based Czar, Faith Czar (4 Czars: Don Willett, John Dilulio, Jim Towey, Jay Hein)
Food Safety Czar (David W.K. Acheson)
Global AIDS Czar (2 Czars: Randall Tobias, Mark Dybul)
Health Czar for WTC, World Trade Center Health Czar (John Howard)
Health IT Czar (David Brailer)
Homeland Security Czar (Michael Chertoff)
Homeless Czar, Homelessness Czar (Phil Mangano)
Gulf Coast Reconstruction Czar, Hurricane Katrina Recovery Czar (Donald E. Powell)
Intelligence Czar (2 Czars: John Negroponte & John Michael McConnell)
Manufacturing Czar (2 Czars: Albert Frink & William G. Sutton)
Policy Czar (Micahel Gerson)
Public Diplomacy Czar (2 Czars: Karen Hughes & James Glassman)
Reading Czar (G. Reid Lyon)
Regulatory Czar (2 Czars: John D. Graham & Susan Dudley)
Science Czar (John Marburger)
Terrorism Czar (3 Czars: Richard A. Clarke, Wayne Downing, John O. Brennan)
War Czar (Douglas Lute)
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:43 PM
And your examples should somehow have been mentioned in the article, which is about Dems not addressing jobs?
You are not very good at this.
mikeyboss on September 7, 2010 at 2:43 PM
He quotes the NYT. That tells you all you need to know.
ladyingray on September 7, 2010 at 2:44 PM
You don’t really know anything about those things you listed, do you?
darwin on September 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM
You’ve got that right. Many have forgotten, or never knew, that it was Mitch McConnell who blocked the full reading, out loud, (all 2700 pages, many of them blank-riddled) of obamacare, which under parliamentary procedures, would have bottled it up in the senate until spring of 2010. No other Republican would stand alone against McConnell to call for the readings, as was their right. Chickens to the last man. Instead, McConnell graciously worked with Harry Reid to make sure the bill passed out of the Senate, to Nancy Pelosi and the House, on that infamous Christmas Eve, 2009 vote. The rest is now one of the foulest chapters in our history.
We can thank Mitch McConnell and the cowardly republican Senate for obamacare; if they aren’t removed from their ranking positions, IF we take back Congress, then we will continue to be destroyed from within our ranks.
tigerlily on September 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM
!
Schadenfreude on September 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Hey Drywall – how’s the job situation up there? As bad as ours? Better? Worse?
Dark-Star on September 7, 2010 at 2:40 PM
darwin on September 7, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Actually we are, if just barely:
“Analysis of the latest government readings by economic research firm IHS Global Insight show that China’s manufacturing sector nearly caught the U.S. output in 2009. The value of goods produced by China’s factories reached about $1.6 trillion last year, compared to $1.7 trillion by U.S. manufacturers.”
From a report on June report on CNN that HA is not letting me link for some reason.
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 2:47 PM
I sense a premature victory gloat that imo is unwarranted.
We have yet to take back even a portion of the legislature, have no infrastructure in place to battle the massive vote fraud that is going on, and if we take a majority, need to make them actually DO the right things, #1 being disrupt, destroy and dismantle obama’s Shadow Government which is the real power moving America to her doom and which obama makes sure stays on a news blackout. (please read article excerpt included in this post)
And then there’s October. Don’t put it past berri to push Israel too far, starting a middle east conflagration, or, start some race riots here in October or even some serious trouble at polling places nationwide warranting a shut down nationally – all for the public’s safety, of course
But the most sinister danger looms in the Shadow Government that has taken root in our nation, and under obama is being utilized and expanded to it’s optimum destructiveness. It has no place in a Constitutional Republic and yet…
Please read the excerpt below:
“This is “in your face” tyranny. The very word Czar is repugnant to any democracy. The very definition of the word Czar means, “king” or “emperor” or “autocrat” or “tyrant.”
So far Obama has brought change to America, and that change is spelt C-Z-A-R-S, as he has appointed about 35 of these petty tyrants.
There is the Technology Czar,
the Afghanistan Czar,
the AIDS Czar,
the Water Czar,
the Climate Czar,
the Drug Czar,
the Faith-Based Czar,
the Green Jobs Czar,
the Great Lakes Czar, (soon the Gulf Coast Czar),
the Health Czar,
the Information Czar,
the Intelligence Czar,
the Pay Czar,
the Regulatory Czar,
the Science Czar,
the Terrorist Czar,
the Urban Affairs Czar,
the Weapons Czar,
the Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar,
and a growing list of other Czars.
Thus far, the tyranny of hundreds of thousands of pages of laws,
regulations,
Executive Orders,
Presidential Review Directives,
Presidential Decision Directives,
National Security Reviews,
National Security Directives,
National Security Presidential Directives,
Homeland Security Directives,
and now directives, regulations, laws, and orders from Czars have produced a seemingly soft tyranny…due to the fact that most despotic governmental actions are being kept out of the mainstream press.”
The legislature needs to be won – and this executive branch tyranny must be dismantled by them.
And so many here wonder why obama golfs and vacations and doesn’t care about losing Congress?
Congress? obama don’t need no stinking Congress.
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/obama_government/news.php?q=1282753338
tigerlily on September 7, 2010 at 2:29 PM
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OH NO
BUSH HAD OVER 30 CZARS
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN
HELP US TIGERLILLY
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:49 PM
Yes they would, and did. Newflash, good Christians can even carry a gun and know how to use it. What is your point?
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 2:50 PM
That was pretty lame, even for Mr. Rywall.
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 2:50 PM
8 years, as opposed to 22 months…not to mention 30 to 35…count much?
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 2:53 PM
kingsjester on September 7, 2010 at 2:21 PM
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a good Christian would never say something like that
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Yes they would, and did. Newflash, good Christians can even carry a gun and know how to use it. What is your point?
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 2:50 PM
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Let’s hear the passage in the Bible where it says you can carry a gun.
Wait – here’s a better one: where in the Bible does it say you can use a defibrillator on a person whose heart has stopped beating and has just gone to heaven? Is God okay with you bringing that person back from heaven and back into this world? Chapter and verse, please.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM
I remember that! It was hilarious!
AsianGirlInTights on September 7, 2010 at 2:55 PM
WTF??? Have you lost your last two marbles? Good grief man, pull yourself together. I know you can do better than that…
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM
Drywall seems particularly bitter today.
Whatever could it be?
Shiny_Tiara on September 7, 2010 at 2:59 PM
An excellent question. I wonder if Captain Canada could spare some of his Christian-bashing time to answer it?
Perceptron on September 7, 2010 at 3:00 PM
WTF?
darwin on September 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Mindmend
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 3:02 PM
maybe he can practice his ‘pivot’ at the WH Dance Extravaganza kicking off today. Michelle plans weekly dance parties donchaknow.
hey at least when Caligula took over he declared a debt jubilee. We got Nero fiddling, Rome burning, and debts mounting.
ginaswo on September 7, 2010 at 3:02 PM
I’d love to know how many of you yahoos, even in the face of the facts, still believe that the Republicans have NOT been obstructionist in the past year and a bit.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM
dave rywall is a troll of the first order, methinks he is paid by Axelasputin. Think I used to see him on Taylor Marsh back in the dem primaries. what a maroon.
ginaswo on September 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM
He never had two marbles to begin with.
DarkCurrent on September 7, 2010 at 3:03 PM
OT/ Mayor Daley will not seek reelection in Chicago.
scorpio9 on September 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM
so Team O has already shot down Orszag’s Op Ed ploy for a VAT tax in exchange for a 2 yr extension of the Bush Tax cuts. Obama and Pelosi will never ever ever give up on those tax cuts expiring for the top 2%. Orszag is trying to regain some reputation no doubt. BWAAAHAAAA!
ginaswo on September 7, 2010 at 3:04 PM
Thomas Sowell on market intervention—http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Things-go-better-when-politicians-do-nothing-752801-102295754.html
I happen to agree with him.
burt on September 7, 2010 at 3:05 PM
A Daley will not seek reelection?
Something big is going down.
Missy on September 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Trolls coming to spur religious debate, trying to split the right and the Indy/Right/mod Dem axx kickin coalition that ahs formed in response to the AXX BACKWARDS economic policies of Team O.
That’s all they got?
PANICKED anyone? BWAAAHAAA!!!
ginaswo on September 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Obstructing bad policy is a good thing. But you haven’t responded to any of the questions regarding the substance of your claim. Are you aware that the Dems haven’t needed a single Republican vote to pass any item on their agenda? How do your examples of obstructionism relate to the topic of Dems not addressing the issue of jobs?
mikeyboss on September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Missy on September 7, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Low poll numbers. High crime rate. No Olympics. High unemployment-the writing is on the wall.
scorpio9 on September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Reminds me of this plane crash! Holy Cow!
ted c on September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Go away kid, you bother me…and take your “facts” with you!
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Me. They did their best to stop the complete destruction of this nation. I don’t give a damn what you think anyway. You live in a country that will either throw your progressive socialist bums out or eventually become another Cuba.
SEcondly, exactly what facts are you talking about? The only party listening to the American people is the Repubs. In fact, since the majority of Americans concur with teh Republicans, you’re implying we’re “obstructionist” as well. I want them to be more obstructionist.
darwin on September 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM
Obstructing bad policy is a good thing. But you haven’t responded to any of the questions regarding the substance of your claim. Are you aware that the Dems haven’t needed a single Republican vote to pass any item on their agenda? How do your examples of obstructionism relate to the topic of Dems not addressing the issue of jobs?
mikeyboss on September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
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It is clear you are not familiar with how things get voted on. I encourage you to look that up.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 3:11 PM
Go away kid, you bother me…and take your “facts” with you!
lovingmyUSA on September 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM
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So Shelby did NOT obstruct 70 nominations to secure pork for Alabama?
Yes
No
You don’t have a clue
pick one
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Could be. But if a massive vote fraud machine like Daley’s can’t fix those little problems…well, that is tremendous news.
Saw some speculation that the WH wants Rahm to run for mayor.
Missy on September 7, 2010 at 3:14 PM
No, champ, you misunderstood; not Obie the Pivoter .
Barnestormer on September 7, 2010 at 3:14 PM
Me too. Opposing sh*tty legislation is the least any elected representative should be able to do. Too bad some of the GOP allowed the Dems to pick them off a couple of times.
Missy on September 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Me. They did their best to stop the complete destruction of this nation. I don’t give a damn what you think anyway. You live in a country that will either throw your progressive socialist bums out or eventually become another Cuba.
SEcondly, exactly what facts are you talking about? The only party listening to the American people is the Repubs. In fact, since the majority of Americans concur with teh Republicans, you’re implying we’re “obstructionist” as well. I want them to be more obstructionist.
darwin on September 7, 2010 at 3:09 PM
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Ah, so you believe the party not in power should obstruct every single bill it disagrees with with procedural loopholes and fillibuster bullsh*t?
Why do you have elections then?
Sounds like you only want one party to govern.
Now what is that called again?
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM
Proof by example — because Shelby was a d*head for two days (hold placed 4 Feb, removed 5 Feb) over his pork, all Republicans are similar because they obstructed Obamacare. I assume that you think they obstructed same for identical reasons as Shelby did?
Now that we have Obamacare, and are finding out exactly what it means, those Republicans are looking pretty good, pork or no.
unclesmrgol on September 7, 2010 at 3:19 PM
Me too. Opposing sh*tty legislation is the least any elected representative should be able to do. Too bad some of the GOP allowed the Dems to pick them off a couple of times.
Missy on September 7, 2010 at 3:17 PM
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Hey look – it’s another clown too immature to accept the consequences of an election.
You don’t want the winner of the election to actually govern because you disagree with their policies.
How incredibly stupid.
Dave Rywall on September 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM
That’s a pretty broad subject. Where do you suggest I start?
mikeyboss on September 7, 2010 at 3:20 PM
I love this line of attack… pick a 75% ACU guy who on an issue wherein we disagree with him vehemently and pretend like we like him… why not pick the other AL Senator, Jeff Sessions?
Do you want to know if we like Shelby more than Sessions? NO. Do you want to know if we like wanton earmarks? NO. Do you want to know if we want socialism “obstructed”? YES.
Does that clear things up?
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 3:22 PM
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