It’s too late to pivot to the economy, champ
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.”…
White House officials insist these are serious policy initiatives that are not being put forth just so Obama can say he’s doing something about the economy. But that leads to the question: If these are such great ideas, why wasn’t the president pushing them earlier?
“They’ve had nearly two years to think about it, and they’ve come up with a Democrat caricature: tax and spend,” says one high-ranking GOP Hill aide.
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Harding 1921. We could turn this thing around in a hurry… not as quickly as Harding was able to because the government apparatus is much larger today… but we could make significant strides within 18 months… but BHO won’t do it.
The problem is that when you take the economy off the government teat, there is a bit of crying at first… the American people (and the GOP) would have to stick to the plan like we did in 1982.
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Why did the scorpion sting the frog?
Akzed on September 7, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Barry….. the bell tolls for thee! (and all your cronies, and all the RINOS, and all the rest of the dirtbags)….
HomeoftheBrave on September 7, 2010 at 9:22 AM
The boy can’t pivot, he’s too busy traveling.
darwin-t on September 7, 2010 at 9:25 AM
We’ve gathered all the great leftist minds in the halls of academia and from America’s newsrooms and after studying the economic landscape, they’ve figured out how to rescue the economy… borrow a gazillion dollars from the Chinese.
In an unrelated story, some guy who is facing bankruptcy under the weight of credit card debt and loan debt (after creating jobs in the auto, housing and retail industries via his spending!) has come up with a solution… get another credit card and borrow more money to make the payments on his outstanding debt and then get a second mortgage on his house.
Problem solved in both cases.
mankai on September 7, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Recovery Summer – Fake.
Recovery November – Real.
Josiah on September 7, 2010 at 9:26 AM
Have no fear!
Tourist tax is here!
Shy Guy on September 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM
It really is going to go down as one of the great mysteries of modern American politics.
The only explanation I can come up with is that Obama and his people really did believe that all they had to do was pass any kind of health care reform bill and Obama’s place as a “historic” President would be secure.
rockmom on September 7, 2010 at 9:28 AM
Sure he is, PBHO is addressing his own needs and that is what is most important for him. He and his mooch of a wife are grabbing what they can while the grabbing is good; a couple of hucksters fleecing the locals before they blow town and disappear.
Bishop on September 7, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Just like the did in Chicago.
darwin-t on September 7, 2010 at 9:31 AM
See, you don’t need no stinkin experience to be President!
Alden Pyle on September 7, 2010 at 9:32 AM
It’s historic and secure, just not in the manner they were hoping for.
Jimmy Carter takes a sigh of relief.
fogw on September 7, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Two years. Two years to do something about unemployment.
I don’t, simply do. not., understand why anyone thinks this administration cares.
They care about doing things the Chicago Way, paying back supporters, buying more favors, and everyone else is irrelevant – especially the private sector. It couldn’t be more obvious. They also care about punishing voters who do not support this administration. If someone doesn’t agree with them, they get the Arizona treatment. Basically, this administration is waging war on large segments of the American population.
Cody1991 on September 7, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Hey, he used the words stimulus and recovery. In more than one speech. He made a website called recovery.gov for crying out loud. As if that wasn’t enough, he even used the macho sounding phrase “hard pivot” in reference to the economy.
What more could we possibly ask?
ElectricPhase on September 7, 2010 at 9:35 AM
I know I was first suspicious when he talked about how much of a danger a new pool hall would be and how much better off we’d be if we bought band uniforms instead. But when he wanted to build a monorail in Springfield, that completely convinced me.
DrAllecon on September 7, 2010 at 9:38 AM
I can’t decide if the smartest man in the world is really this stupid or if he is just so sure of himself that he thinks that he can pull off a miracle at the last moment. It seems that might be a touch harder considering the press is now willing to consider that he is capable of missteps.
Cindy Munford on September 7, 2010 at 9:38 AM
Party of Owe.
The Mega Independent on September 7, 2010 at 9:38 AM
Recovery SummerEconomy Wrecked.
Thanks, Obamacrats! We won’t be requiring your services any longer.
Good Lt on September 7, 2010 at 9:42 AM
He’s spinning as hard as he can to try to lessen the November political massacre. It won’t work.
kingsjester on September 7, 2010 at 9:43 AM
FIFY
Shy Guy on September 7, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Isn’t this a blatant concession that his economic policy – to the extent that he has a coherent economic policy, which it is evident to even the most dimwitted moron that he doesn’t – has utterly failed, and that the conservatives’ approach to growing the private economy is correct?
The liberals lost the economic argument. Again. For the bazillionth time in the last century.
Good Lt on September 7, 2010 at 9:45 AM
The latter. PBHO has spent his entire life being told he’s close to perfection, why would he stop believing it now?
Bishop on September 7, 2010 at 9:52 AM
Born to socialists, mentored by communists, no paper trail on background, books that tell who and what he is in his own words – left ignored by a complicit media. The attitudes of the man, his wife, and his administration are remeniscent of the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime in Romania, the Marcos regime in the Phillipines, and Chavez today in Venezuela. Why would we not think otherwise about his delusions. He believes he has clothes because his sycophants tell him so. he believed he had clothes because his communist mentors told him so. This rube has been naked all his life – and now it is in plain sight for all to see.
HomeoftheBrave on September 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM
Very well said.
Josiah on September 7, 2010 at 10:07 AM
I think American history shows that Dems have largely supported corruption in government. Before the Obama administration, that corruption had generally been limited to pockets of urban areas. My impression is that conservatives and a fair number of independents adamantly believe in fundamental fairness in society and were genuinely appalled at the way in which Obamacare was enacted. And the substance of the policy, the destruction of the doctor-patient relationship probably makes about 75% of the country vomit if they stop to think about it.
On my last point, there’s a great column (“In Defense of Physician Autonomy”) in the WSJ today by a surgeon name Saul Greenfield.
BuckeyeSam on September 7, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Obambi IS a caracature. What else did you expect?
Phil-351 on September 7, 2010 at 11:10 AM
Titanic and time… you know…
CynicalOptimist on September 7, 2010 at 11:22 AM
He’s setting up 2012 to be a referendum on the GOP, and he, and the DNC are going to blame the sluggish economy over the next two years on the GOP. He believes he can label the conservative movement as reactionaries as they attempt to take away your health care, and destroy them once and for all. He knows that a continuing Democrat majority would be the death knell of his reelection in 2012.
It is so clear what he is doing, I’m surprised there is a question.
Can he do it? It will depend on whether or not the conservative reawakening will be strong enough to overcome the inevitable RINO willingness to cooperate with the Left on a divide and conquer strategy.
We must continue the Tea Parties after the election and hold Congress, and the President, accountable. They need to see us out there and know that we did not go home thinking our work is done. They need to know that 2010 was just the beginning of something MUCH larger.
Saltysam on September 7, 2010 at 11:34 AM
I think it’s time to pull this back out of storage:
Miss_Anthrope on September 7, 2010 at 11:48 AM
Didn’t take…huh.
Miss_Anthrope on September 7, 2010 at 11:48 AM
Good grief! This thing sux…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3_jh2dO78U
Miss_Anthrope on September 7, 2010 at 11:49 AM
You left out Juan and Evita Peron, which is who the Obamas most closely resemble IMO. The Perons fashioned themselves as champions of the poor while living the high life. They atttacked business and the upper classes while rewarding favored businessmen and labor unions with lucrative monopolies and concessions. Even after Peron ran the Argentine economy into the ground, the poor people and unions still loved him.
rockmom on September 7, 2010 at 12:30 PM
I see some smart people here that are completely missing it.
That, to me, is scary.
Wake up, folks. Obama knows exactly what he is doing. It is no mystery.
Saltysam on September 7, 2010 at 12:32 PM