The Democratic Party has become the “Party of Pluerism.” In other words, they are acting like children.
The Gallup report issued earlier this week says that unemployment is now at 10.1% and that underemployment is at 18.8%. It also predicted that the administration would understate the true unemployment numbers. There will be no more economic reports before the election:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/143426/Gallup-Finds-Unemployment-September.aspx
What, you say, could make this worse? Easy. Obama was on the radio today and obviously off TelePrompTer. The following is from an article in the LA Times:
“Everybody in the barbershops, the beauty shops, and at work — everybody’s got to understand: This is a huge election,” he said. “If we turn out in strong numbers, then we will do fine. If we do not, if we are depressed and decide, well, you know, Barack’s not running right now, so I’m just going to stay home, then I’m going to have my hands full up here on Capitol Hill.”Republicans have demonstrated.
Days before the release of a key jobs report, Obama said most of the job losses his administration gets blamed for occurred before “any of my economic plans were put into place,” and that the country is still “experiencing the hangover from the misguided policies” of the last decade.
Obama said a big voter turnout was vital, both to counter millions of dollars being spent by outside groups and the enthusiasm
“They are fired up. They are mobilized. They see an opportunity to take back the House, maybe take back the Senate,” he said. “If they’re successful in doing that, they’ve already said they’re going to go back to the same policies that were in place during the Bush administration. That means that we are going to have just hand-to-hand combat up here on Capitol Hill.”
With Obama is it always just about him. He has already decided that if Democrats lose, it is only because he is not on the ballot. What is really pathetic is that he probably believes that. We are dealing with someone who is incapable of even recognizing reality. When Bill Clinton got walloped during the 1994 mid-term election, he just adopted some of the Republican ideas and took credit for them.
But Obama is unlikely to do that. Instead he will blame the loss on everything and everyone but himself. He will first blame everything on Bush, just like he did above. He will blame Republicans for obstructing his agenda. He will blame a biased media that didn’t give his administration enough credit. He will blame Democrats for running scared from Republican lies and distortions. Finally, he will blame the American people because not enough of his supporters showed up to vote. The only person he will not blame is himself, other than his failure to explain more effectively why he is right.
This means that while Republicans are now very likely to run the table on November 2, 2010, that will not solve the problem. Obama is likely to veto any attempt to overturn his program and to implement as much of his program as he can through executive order, ignoring both congress and the courts. In addition, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are likely to try and jam through as much as possible during a lame duck session. (They will fail).
I do not think Obama will succeed, but unfortunately we may be facing the most significant constitutional crisis in our nation’s history. The following article, from Real Clear Politics, shows that a lot of people are very concerned with regard to this topic.
We already have an important clue. Jim Jones is resigning as National Security Director. His replacement will be Tom Donilon. His resume is as follows:
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Thomas_Donilon
In other words Obama is turning over the top position on National Security to a politic hack that helped run Fannie Mae into the ground. He has zero military experience and Woodward reported that both Jones and Gates loath him. In other words he is just like Obama, a naïve, inexperienced, incompetent radical. I feel warm all over.
TDM
Does the phrase “Going to hell in a handbasket’ ring a bell?
Just be thankful you are in Florida, not California. I am so pleased to live in a state that is simultaneously trying to ban happy meals while legalizing marijuana.