The amount of bad news for Democrats today is overwhelming. Having this many negative stories come out in a month would be bad enough, but the cracks have turned to shatters in the liberal dream now that their risky strategy is falling apart. It’s the same thing the Republicans did and it happens every time a party tries to form a permanent majority.
The strategy was simple..and quite brilliant in a political sense. Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s right hand, won the first stage of power, the Congress, by choosing candidates who would win, not necessarily pure liberals. Obama’s second stage was to run on a platform of change, transparency, and stay vague. George W. was a sitting duck and the Republican chosen to run against him was indeed Bush II (err.. III).
And the final stage was once they had supermajorities and full control of the government, ram through all their real ideas and no one could stop them. Build a big government and bring everyone into it by handing out money to a desperate, recession ridden country. Once built, almost impossible to undo. And you control the power structure that watches the ballot boxes. Unfortunately his party is split now between those onboard and those needing to get reelected.
Here is today’s news. In my many years of keeping up extensively with current events, I’ve not seen anything like it honestly. All of this was published today.
* After President Obama had to apologize to handicapped kids for his description of his bowling “like the Special Olympics” on Leno, Rahm Emanuel called those in his own party who don’t go along “f***ng retarded.” And it wasn’t the f part that was offensive. He phoned in a call to the Special Olympics and they said nope. He then went in person to apologize and today they said “thanks, but apology not accepted.”
* When they weren’t hiding the global warming decline, they were cooking the books on just how bad unemployment and the recession is to save face since we did spend a trillion to fix that problem. Today it was revealed that the numbers will be slightly adjusted..to the tune of nearing a million more unemployed than they estimated. My theory on how that happened is just a conspiracy.
* Today Obama said the problem isn’t him, it’s that we spend too much time worrying about what they’re doing. We need to stop looking at blogs and watching the news. Seriously, he said that. Video of the remarks and oddly MSNBC cutting away after he tells people to stop watching them too. (Hot Air.)
* A new report on our national security shows that Obama’s new and fresh take on terrorism and hostile regimes is working as well as everyone but him thought it would. Should be seeing a terrorist attack in the US before summer.
* Super Bowl ads are pretty expensive, unless you’re the government. Using some of daddy’s (read China’s) allowance money, you’ll get to see a $2.5 million dollar ad about participating in the Census during the Super Bowl. If you think that’s a lot of money, you haven’t been paying attention.
* But now if YOU want to waste your money on something like Vegas, Obama has some words for you. This being the second time that recession-ridden Vegas has been slammed by Obama, the mayor finally said “screw you.” More specifically that Obama’s “not welcome here.” I’ve never seen an administration flat out scold people and tell them how to lives beyond all the laws that force you to. Except that wasn’t the end of it today…
* You have been instructed by the DOT Secretary not to drive your Toyota. Just kidding he misspoke. The government owns competitor General Motors. So General Motors just told you not to drive your Toyota until you get it repaired.
*5 or so stories on further fraud,lying and hiding on Global Warming at the highest levels that’s not news anymore, but having this former believer/alarmist say he’s defeated by all this corruption and manipulation is news.
* Why is the IRS buying Shotguns????? It’s April 15 kids, lock the doors.
And the fallout of all of this is..
* The Democrats blasting and questioning Obama are oddly the ones who are teetering on defeat. But…wouldn’t they want the popular, articulate president on their side come election time?
* Now News.. Republicans lead by 12 points for a Senate seat. News.. it’s Obama’s seat in Illinois.
That’s just today’s news. No one has enough time to read even the past week’s news of everything else that has been happening. Hope and change is in the clouds, the rest of us will be stuck with the reality down here. Or as Obama puts it “to clean up the mess.”
