Expect to hear that word, “experiment”, a lot more often:
With one word Monday, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele helped the GOP get back in the fight over health care and the entire Obama agenda. The word was “experiment.”
“Candidate Obama promised change,” Steele said in a speech at the National Press Club. “President Obama is conducting an experiment.” Steele went on to accuse Barack Obama of carrying out dangerous experiments with the nation’s health care, with the economy, with taxpayers’ dollars.
“Experiment” didn’t come from nowhere. “The term bubbled up from a set of focus groups we did with swing voters, independents, soft Republicans and soft Democrats,” says one strategist involved in an extensive RNC research effort nationwide and in key states like Virginia, Colorado and Florida. “It’s something that a vast majority of voters believe is true, that Obama is running what amounts to an experiment with our future.”
I’ve never seen so many people so incensed over a President’s plans – I’m getting calls out of the blue from friends who want to find out just what this man, Obama, is really up to. People are frightened that Obama plans to ram-rod through a series of changes where all the details will be worked out by him, behind closed doors, after the laws are in place…and we’ll then only have the Democrat-controlled Congress to call him on it (ha!).
Don’t think that the outrage over the mere thought of a 1,000+ page piece of legislation has died away…its simmering out there and eating away at the government’s credibility like acid. The closest analogy I’ve got to this is the way “global test” ensured that Kerry would never be elected President…in and of itself, it wasn’t that big a statement, but it ate away at his credibility relentlessly…so, too, are Obama’s actions eroding his credibility. If he doesn’t change course soon, he’ll be permanently down to “knee-jerk” Democrat support for the remainder of his term.
The final key to stopping Obama has been, of course, the GOP getting its act together. Steele’s statement is a good start, but its only a start and we still have a very large number of Beltway Barnacles in our party who really think that the people don’t matter – these people will try mighty hard to bail Obama out because, in the end, they prefer an elitist like Obama to the regular folks out there with their TEA Parties and unrealistic expectations of personal liberty, etc.
We can whack ’em, good people – the entire elite class, of all stripes. We can take our country back – in the end, Obama might be the best thing that happened to us. As was said in ages past, “the knowledge you are to be hanged in a fortnight concentrates the mind wonderfully”. Obama and the elites are building the gallows of American exceptionalism, and I think our minds are very concentrated, indeed.
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