Sucks Being Them

posted at 11:08 am on November 18, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
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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 Iran 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.

Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions

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