Who knew that the liberals new, tin-plated demi-god would fall so far, so fast?
The Spell is Broken. Cap-and-trade, the mega-deficits, the apology tours, and the sleaze of some appointments and congressional grandees (cf. Rangel, Dodd, Murtha, etc.) were stimulants, but not in themselves enough to awaken the somnolent American people from their collective trance. Yet health care was like a shot of adrenaline that jolted the patient out of his slumber. Suddenly hope and change no longer worked like the swinging watch and “you’re getting sleepy” lingo. Voters are feeling they’ve been “had” and were mesmerized into being used for an extremist agenda.
Who made the following decisions? 1) to propose a 1,000 page bill that no one had read, much less could explain?; 2) to ram down the greatest change in the US economy in fifty years by the August recess?; 3) to talk loosely of the “uninsured” without knowing why they were not insured, how much it would cost to insure them, or whether they currently in fact find some sort of care?; 4) to reference Rahm Emanuel’s doctor brother as a source of wisdom? 5) to demonize the health-care industry as greedy?
(NB: Does Obama really believe that illegal aliens do not possess 200-300 dollars a month to buy catastrophic health coverage, when they send on average at least that amount back to Mexico on the assumption the emergency room here is free, for everything from injuries to natal care? Does he believe that a 25-year old does not gamble that his robust health means he prefers his I-pod, DVDs, and nights out to squirreling away cash each month for health insurance? There are flaws in our system that must be corrected, but the notion of conspirators in black hats who plot to prevent health care for the “uninsured” is fallacious.
If Pelosi had really cleaned House – especially of people like Rangel and Murtha; if Obama had really been transparent; if there had been a genuine attempt to reach across to the defeated right…if, if if…as Churchill once observed, “the terrible ‘ifs'” have accumulated. Its not just been one mis-step; it has been a whole series of terrible tactical and strategic errors and there is no evidence to date that anyone, from Obama on down, realizes how badly they’ve screwed up. In fact, we’re getting indications that the left, including Obama, merely wants to double-down…to press even harder for a leftist agenda, apparently in firm conviction that America really did turn left in November and the opposition really is just “astro-turf” corporate shills and right wing die-hards. The left will be disabused of this notion.
Now, this doesn’t mean that Obama can’t climb back up a bit – heck, it doesn’t even mean he can’t be re-elected in 2012. But the bloom is off the rose and he’ll never get it back. You don’t get do-overs in politics. Regardless of the merits of the case, once the Katrina response was tagged as a miserable failure, President Bush could never recapture that aura of firm executive competence he had built up – Obama will never again be the savior-like political figure he was in November of 2008.
Ultimately, the failure of the left lead by Obama must be laid at the door of the rank and file of the left – for decades the left has been warned that their leaders are actually corrupt hacks who are merely using leftist rhetoric as a means to power, and power is to be used for personal gratification and enrichment. Overly-concentrated on the relatively rare and usually small-time corruption of various Republicans, the left failed to notice that, via legislation and regulation, leftist leaders have been systematically robbing the people of the United states – robbing them of their wealth and their freedom. This, in turn, all stems from that fundamental flaw of the left – built on the false premise that Mankind is perfectible via man’s actions, the only way it can be sustained over times is by dishonesty…and once you head down that route, you’ll just get worse and worse about it.
Obämerdämmerung – the twilight of the liberal gods. Its all gone wrong, and they won’t be able to get it back. As long as we hold firm and press our agenda, we will sweep them in to the ash heap of history for good.
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